Their next match is against Hyderabad (25th November). They are not among the strongest teams out there, so I would say that Chennaiyin will be having a very good opportunity at their hand to get 3 points. Three days later, they will take on Odisha. Right now they are at the rock bottom of the points table, with just 1 point from four matches.

India is leading by 343 runs, and I guess they would like to get as much as possible. But even this lead is enough for a comfortable win against the hapless Bangladesh. I guess the Indians are more interested in getting some batting records against their name, given that the outcome of the match is all but certain. BTW, Mayank Agarwal may be disappointed. He missed the triple century.

Great start by Deccan Gladiators, but Ravi Rampaul is bowling really tight and both Shane Watson and Anton Devcich are struggling to score runs against him. If Delhi Bulls wants to win this match, then they should restrict the Deccan Gladiators within the 100-110 range. Anything more than that, it is going to be tough. The Deccan Gladiators have some very good bowlers, such as Fawad Ahmed and Zahir Khan.

Facebook is a reputed company, but there always a chance that their funds can get stolen or seized (no matter how small that chance is). So I would say that rather than storing my wealth in Libra, I would store it in the form of physical cash or bank deposits. Libra is more useful for trading and I would not consider it for investment of any type.

It is your money and you are the one who should be making the call. No one has successfully predicted the Bitcoin prices on a consistent basis, ever since the first coins were mined in 2009. Because it is pure speculation. It is very difficult to predict the supply and demand for the future, given the added layer of anonymity that Bitcoin provides to the users.

Ironically, this was one of the reasons why the Libra project (by Facebook) faced a lot of criticism during the recently concluded senate hearings. When the politicians are not comfortable with the freedom offered by a centralized currency such as Libra, just imagine how much scared will they be about Bitcoin. It is decentralized and outside the control of any entity or corporation.

No one will be objecting to such measures if it is done on a voluntary basis. But here they are limiting the use of physical cash and forcing the citizens to use digital payment options. And this is where I am not comfortable with the whole idea. Whether I want to use physical cash or digital cash, is up to me. The government has no right to dictate the terms here.

11.43 runs needed per over and Asghar Afghan got out (doubtful catch) just now. He was the only player who was capable of guiding Afghanistan to a win, and now their chances are close to zero. Mohammad Nabi is batting along with Najibullah Zadran, but both of them are not well known for hard hitting. West Indies is going to win this match. Best of luck to Afghanistan for the next match.

They should think about the work load as well. Teams like Australia regularly rest their senior players, in order to guard them from injury related to over-work. India should also think about the same and implement a system which can rotate the players. With such a vast player pool, I believe that India can rest the senior players once in a while without having a negative impact on their winning probability.

LOL.. the Arabs don't play cricket. I still remember the 1996 World cup, in which the United Arab Emirates sent a team. Their captain was an Arab (Sultan Zarawani). There was another Arab in the team (Saeed al Saffar), and I think that was the last time UAE had any Arabs in their team. Nowadays their team is 100% composed of expats (Indians, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis.etc).

Anyone watching the match between Afghanistan and West Indies? Things not looking very rosy for Afghanistan. First of all, they conceded 164 runs in 20 overs, and then they lost the wickets of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran with just 7 runs on board. Now as usual Asghar Stanikzai is building the innings, with some help from Hazratullah Zazai. But the required run rate is climbing up.

There are teams that are named after Indian states (Maratha Arabians, Deccan Gladiators, Delhi Bulls, Karnataka Tuskers.etc), but very few Indians are participating in this tournament. The BCCI has banned the participation of Indian players in foreign leagues, which I find very hard to digest. They could at least permit the domestic players to participate in these leagues. For players such as Shahbaz Ahmed, Jay Bista and Siddhesh Lad, tournaments such as this one can beneficial in both financial and skill-learning terms.

I don't understand why Kohli is playing in this test match. This was an ideal opportunity to give some of the younger players an opportunity to make their test debut for India. That is, unless Kohli wanted to add a few more batting records against his name. To put it frankly, I am getting tired of all these one sided test matches. Last month we had a very one sided series against South Africa. And now this one.

You should also remember that the number of bounty campaigns have undergone a significant reduction. Earlier we used to have up to 100 ICOs listing every week, and now this number has gone to an average of 4-5 per week. And there have been a corresponding decrease in the number of bounty campaigns as well. However there have been no such decline in the number of bounty hunters. This means more bounty hunters per campaign, and therefore lower payments for each bounty hunter.

Nowadays cricket clubs mostly prefer the shorter version of the game, due to lack of time. However, Afghanistan do have a 4-day domestic tournament in which all the five regions take part. The domestic cricket is rapidly expanding there, thanks to the increased funding from the ICC (as per the latest revenue model, ACB will receive $5 million per year during 2017-23).

The Abu Dhabi T10 League is perhaps the only truly global league among all the franchise cricket tournaments. There is no restriction regarding the overseas players and the teams are free to select anyone regardless of their nationality. Among the players, I could find representation from a huge number of countries, including England, South Africa, Pakistan, New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, UAE, West Indies, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, USA, Ireland, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Scotland.etc.

However it is sad that the BCCI is preventing Indian players from taking part. Only a few retired players are allowed to participate (Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Pravin Tambe.etc).

What happened in Zimbabwe was different. The cricket board executives were appointed by the government and these guys stole most of the funds they got from the ICC. The global body tolerated it for sometime, but when the situation got out of hand, they had to act and suspend the membership of Zimbabwe Cricket. So far, Cricket South Africa (CSA) has stayed clear of corruption allegations.

Past discrimination can't be used to justify current discrimination. BTW, what justification do they have for the discrimination against the San, Asians, Cape Malays and the mixed race people? All of them also suffered from discrimination by the apartheid government, and now they are facing same discrimination from the black government as well.

One domain where Libra could be useful is with remittance payments. Right now, Western Union and Moneygram are charging up to 10% of the total amount. I am not knowledgeable about the fee structure of Libra, but I guess it will be much lower than what WU has. That said, government taxes on remittance may be applicable on Libra as well.

Because that is equivalent to saying that the other South Africans (Whites, Asians, Coloreds and the original inhabitants - the San) are not equal to the black payers. In IPL, 7 out of the 11 players should be Indians. But there is no requirement that these 7 players should be from a particular religion or a particular racial group. You can have a quota based on nationality. But it is wrong to have one based on race or religion.