Most of the prediction states that Rohit Sharma and senior players will announce retirement once after the 2023 World Cup. I don't think the selection committee will easily take away the captaincy from Rohit Sharma. Atleast till the World Cup we can expect him to be the captain of India. In this season he hasn't performed well. However Rohit Sharma and other senior players need to come forward and retire atleast by 2024. Right now more players were identified and are queued for the national team.

There is some exciting news from Malaysia. The Malaysian Cricket Association has announced that they will be launching a T20 league this year, comprised of 5 franchises. The league will be sponsored by IPG (who were the official promoters of the Lankan Premier League). According to Mohammed Iqbal Ali bin Kassim Ali  (MCA president), local Malaysian players will get an opportunity to play with some of the top international cricket players. All the matches will be played at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My only concern is regarding the availability of international players. The T20 league calendar already looks over-saturated.

I think Nadal is done already, or if he will able to play in his favorite tournament, if he is not 100% and still feeling some pain from his injuries and obviously the wear and tear throughout his career, I doubt that he can win that win.

It will still be Alcaraz and Djokovic who will be the early favorite in clay.

And then the rest trying to do a catch up, Tsitsipas, Medvedev, Ruud.

Sunday's transfer gossip:

Mauricio Pochettino, who has agreed to take over as Chelsea manager, wants Mason Mount to stay at Stamford Bridge, although the 24-year-old England midfielder only has one year left on his contract and has not been offered an extension. I think Pochettino will have a very difficult job at Chelsea, much more difficult than at any other club he has coached so far.

The president of Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal, Fahad Bin Saad Bin Nafel, has refused to comment on speculation surrounding a move for Paris St-Germain and Argentina forward Lionel Messi, 35. Does this mean that the football transfer of the century is being negotiated?  

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/65585589

Man United and Liverpool have a 4 point difference which in my opinion will be difficult for Liverpool to catch up with because it seems that Man United will be able to get 2 wins from their remaining 3 matches with the condition that Man United must not be negligent, let alone make stupid blunders. The win over Wolves means a lot to Man United because apart from securing their position in 4th place, it can also raise their morale. Besides that, the return of Varane and Garnacho will further increase their winning chances.

Matchday 36 for the Majestic 7 will be starting today and it means that it will be the last 3 matchdays. Lets take the opportunity in the last 3 matchday, who knows if one of us (from this forum) will win the main prize in the last 3 matchdays. The selected matches for the matchday 36 are as listed below:

Chelsea vs Nottingham
Manchester United vs Wolves
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth
Brentford vs WestHam
Everton vs Man City
Arsenal vs Brighton
Leicester vs Liverpool

My predictions: Awoniyi, Rashford, J Ayew, I Toney, Haaland, Odegaard and Salah. As I see there is still no one who won the main prize so far, lets wait for a miracle to happen where one of us win the main prize 

May I though? I mean I get Vini, he scores a lot, but valverde and gundogan? Lol, I mean yeah anything could happen in sports and we could have seen them score as well, but why not someone like benzema or haaland? As we all know they are pretty high scoring people with many goals. I could understand something like vini+benzema+haaland or vini+de bruyne+haaland if you thought city would win, those are high scoring names that could do it, but gundogan? valverde? Sure they score too but not a lot .

In any case, I had a simple bet, City to win the game, that's it and I ended up with a loss as well and it was a decent chunk of money so I am sad that I lost it but that happens when you are betting, I will do it again for the second game and I hope it gets better results.

At this stage I think Madrid don't care if they finish second or third. It is clear that they are losing the league, although mathematically not yet, as the gap with Barcelona is 14 points and there are 5 games left (a maximum of 15 points), although as you say it seems that lately they have put more effort into the Champions League.

Barcelona, on the other hand, are breathing easy because in one or two matchdays they could be mathematically crowned champions, which will come in very handy after the risky financial gamble they took this year.

Roma did a good job against Leverkusen by that 1-0 win maybe. But they had better not lose their concentration in the Serie A games as well. Because they are currently out of top six now which means there is no spot in a tournament next season. They can still join the Champions League group stage by winning the Europa League title of course but there is no guarantee about that either.

Therefore they need to play decently against Bologna up next to get a win. But I still can't trust them fully because the second leg in the Europa League is going to be played only a couple of days later than this league game.

The failed in UCL made all of players lost their spirit. Bundesliga will become the last hope for bayern to get a trophy this season.
Oliver kahn must be ashame with his decision to sign potter if the club will be trophyless this season. The inconsistent performance of bayern is also making the club feel so difficult to win the game in bundesliga.
Is this tuchel's effect? A coach that has good performance in another club might not able to do the same in the new club. There will be many parties mocking bayern if this club will be trophyless this season.
Bookies are favoring bayern compared with schalke and that makes sense but i don't even think if schalke can be defeated easily this time. The new schalke is different with the old one. Schlake is also trying so hard to avoid relegation zone.
I hope so. Three matches remaining and everything will be determined at the end of this month.

We will see who will deserve bundesliga trophy this season.

It is impossible for Messi to be able to contribute to PSG as he did for Barcelona, as he is getting older his movements are slowing down a bit, he is also not able to run like when he was young. Messi achievements with PSG are not too disappointing, this season he has contributed 15 goals and 15 assists in Ligue 1.
In my opinion, PSG failure in the Champions League was due to the coach minimal experience, Galtier was not able to take advantage of the quality of the players that PSG had, and his strategy was not always impressive. PSG has moved quickly to deal with the situation experienced by the club, the issue of recruiting a new coach is getting louder and louder. Mourinho is reported to be Galtier successor next season, the experience and style applied by Mourinho are expected to boost PSG performance, especially in European competition.

Why would these old fucks support the associates? If we look at it from their point of view then there is no benefit even in the long term.

They just want to milk the Indian market and keep filling their pocket. In almost every podcast or commentary there is a subtle indication that BCCI should give up a big portion of their share because they earn enough through IPL but no one even argues how to make the existing market lucrative for the rest of the boards.

By mean milking; they don't want to introduce more teams in the ICC tournament. Just look at the current ODI WC setting it's freaking embarrassing, there are 10 teams going in for qualifiers and only 2 will get the slot for 10 teams ODI WC (it's directly related to the 2007 crisis).

On Pujara i don't agree with you and @pakhitheboss's reasoning.

You can make exactly the same argument for Virat as well if we put aside his last marathon inning against Australia on a dead pitch. There is a fair chance of Pujara failing at his role again but you have to back your senior players when they are showing signs of good form. Rahane only got in because of Iyer's injury (IPL form is a minor reason for selection).

Yeah, this duo is there and will be key for India, let's hope the former keeps his form and the latter concentrates on his bowling instead of trash talk.

Knockout round seems certain for Chennai and Gujarat. These two teams are performing well. They are able to perform well in almost every match. However, Chennai were favorites against Delhi. Because the performance of Chennai players is quite regular. The players are in good form. Even then after being given a target of just 168, I thought Chennai would not be able to win the match. However, Chennai's bowlers performed brilliantly. Ravindra Jadeja, Moeen Ali and Tushar Deshpande's bowling was very controlled. Deepak Chahar also managed to pick up two wickets and Matheesha three wickets. Chennai won because of the good performance of the bowlers.

Its good for Ireland that match ended in a draw as they were not in a good position to win the game. Bangladesh lost 3 wickets in 12 overs for score of 51 runs but still the middle order helped to take net total to 246. Mushfiqur Rahim was the highest runs scorer from Bangladesh as he scored 61 runs on 70 balls. When match was called off Ireland required 181 runs in 37 balls with 7 wickets left. 2 more matches still to be played, Ireland need to focus both on there batting as well as on bowling. 

Next week we are going to be in another race week and this time we are in Italy. Last week Verstappen did a really great work by winning the race despite starting at the 9th position. This was very helpful for him to increase the point gap with Perez in driver standings to 14 as well. Fastest lap was also on him so it was a really solid race by him there.

Perez is really ambitious this season. He is doing his best with this very fast car. He would like to prevent the gap from getting bigger in the next race. Maybe he can take another pole position there but when it comes to a win his job will still be difficult against Verstappen of course. He has a more skilled opponent against himself in the end.

Wow, what a remarkable turnaround by Mumbai Indians They started the season on a low note but it seems like they have found their form just at the right time. Their incredible chase of 200 runs in just 16 overs against RCB was truly outstanding. The duo of Suryakumar Yadav 83 runs and Nehal Wadhera 53 runs not out played exceptionally well and smashed the bowlers all around the park. Mumbai Indians batting was simply explosive and the way they dominated RCB was a treat to watch. SKY was undoubtedly the star of the match with his scintillating knock of 83 runs off just 35 balls and deserves to be the player of the match. Mumbai Indians victory by 6 wickets and 21 balls left in the match was well deserved and they have shown that they are a force to be reckoned with in this tournament.

OK guys.. now it is official. Confirmation from ESPN:

https://www.espn.in/football/blog-transfer-talk/story/4943303/transfer-talk-psg-hatch-plan-to-reunite-silva-and-mbappe

Messi will move to Al Hilal, which currently participates in the Saudi Professional League once his deal with Paris Saint-Germain expires at the end of this season. This was a very sensible move from Messi. PSG was treating him without any respect and there is no point in staying somewhere by compromising on self-respect. And there is more. Rumors are that Sergio Busquets may also join Al Hilal. Jordi Alba is yet another player who is rumored to be in talks with Al Hilal at this point. Anyway, next season of the Saudi Professional League is going to be super exciting.

Well, I would like to see what will happen to countries like the USA and Canada that require visas for South American countries, if there are so many teams that are going to be on this side of the world, it is something that can lead to many problems, unless that these countries give temporary visas due to the number of tickets they have, but fans who are from these countries will give them tickets? I know that even Mexico requires a visa, at least for Venezuelans, something that seems absurd to me, but hey with emigration problems and all that (which is off topic, but I'll touch on it anyway) so what will happen to that=?

Players and fans have plenty of time to create visas. But not every fan and player should get multiple visas, because cup format is made so, that qualification part will be in one country, but play-off and finals will be in US. Canada and Mexico will be presented by two stadium each, but US with 11 stadium all across country. So if you are a fan of a weak country (sorry for that) you probably dont have to get multiple visas

For players it will be much simpler. Like cruises. You get visa to US to board the cruise ship and go ashore to Mexico without Mexican visa. I suppose same system will be for fans also.

U see only one problem with USA - a lot of people gonna get visas "because of football cup", but some of them gonna stay in US as immigrants for ever, taking into consideration fact that they cant get visa there normally. Such things always happen with poor countries. There was even a case (dont remember if it was Olympic games or football cup), when plane with athletes landed, and during the event part of them disappeared, because they ran away from poverty and dictatorship in their homeland.

All four teams in Europa League semi finals look very similar in quality and I don't know two Italian teams will beat two teams from Germany and Spain easily. Especially AS Roma will have to play against Leverkusen with very tired players and limited player resources. They have to rely on Jose Mourinho and his experience to beat Leverkusen with difficulty they have now.

Roma rely on their defense a lot but they currently have many injured players in defense system and it is not good signal that they will be able to play two semi final matches with best defense performance. Anyway, they only have three matches in Europa League to try and it is their only chance to join Champions League next season. I believe their players will use all strength they have for it.

Juventus look to be in a better condition than Roma and will be able to beat Sevilla. However Juventus have another difficult as Sevilla are very experience and successful in Europa League.