Pakistan's cricket is never been in hands of professional peoples those can bring good and positive changes for the game and improvement of the system which is surely big disappointment we have too many controversies and other issues but no one care about this all with the arrival of the Ramiz Raja there were few hopes but due to political influence now these are also down and this team and system is going to the worst incoming days because no one care about team and players many are already trying to have other sources like shifting from this country for the better future and few are now leaking their wounds as well.
These two youngsters are done good job in their first test match but now out of the series with injuries mean things are not completely right before their departure and having them into this squad as well.
Departure of Rambo was a big setback for cricket in Pakistan. He took several measures to improve the financial situation, such as signing a sweetened media deal for the PSL. But then, some of his inventions such as the PJL (Pakistan Junior League) was not financially viable and had to be shelved. Initial season of PJL resulted in losses of $4 million. Najam Sethi replaced him and backtracked most of his innovations. Then there is the never-ending clash with the BCCI, which made sure that tournaments such as Asia Cup were shifted out of Pakistan. |
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Well, Al Hilal plans to bring in Lukaku and this looks like it will be good effort by Al Hilal because Lukaku himself is striker who can be relied on, even though his performance has decreased, at least he is much better now.
In the previous transfer window, Al Hilal had too much drama when they wanted to bring in several players, but now they are prioritizing players who really have a big chance of getting them.
And it is true to say that Mitrovic is the most successful transfer from Al Hilal and it can also be seen that Mitrovic himself is currently the main player in the Al Hilal squad.
He succeeded in bringing Al Hilal to the top of the SPL standings with 50 points and Mitrovic has also provided 16 goals with 4 assists in 16 matches.
I sure that having Lukaku with them can help Mitrovic in bringing Al Hilal to win the SPL and of course these two players will be a series of players who can be very sharp in Al Hilal attack line.
I am not sure whether this is going to be successful. The amount of money offered by Al Hilal is not that big. We are talking about €60 million spread across two years. Also, he is currently playing for AS Roma and they don't have any intention to release him. But if somehow Al Hilal is successful, then without any doubt they will become unbeatable in the Saudi Professional League. Already they are 12 points ahead of the second placed Al Nassr. And yesterday they destroyed Abha by a margin of 7-0 and that included a hat-trick from Sergej Milinković-Savić. |
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England was supposed to perform well against a team like West Indies, who even failed to qualify for the ODI World Cup in 2023. But then, in T20 format West Indies is at another level, and at this point England is horribly out of form and are in the process of rebuilding their team. Players such as Jos Buttler and Liam Livingstone are in high demand in various T20 leagues. But they failed against ordinary bowlers like Gudakesh Motie and Akeal Hosein yesterday. In the end the total was too small for the England bowlers to defend.
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The India performance after the World Cup was good,if they made this performance in the Final.They may again made the trophy after the Dhoni Trophy in 2011 World Cup ODI match.Sanju Samson should be used in the World Cup instead of Surya Kumar Yadav,because the performance of the Surya Kumar was not good in the World Cup.The selection committee had made the blunder to fail to chase the trophy.Arshdeep played many good game in the recent days,he made the match changing performance in the South African trophy.Rahul captain ship was good in this series.The importance to Arshdeep plays huge difference in this series.
Surya Kumar Yadav prefers the T20 format to ODI format. In the 50-over format, batsmen need some patience and he lacks that. And although Sanju Samson got a century in the last match, let's not forget the fact that he had wasted several chances prior to that. In terms of consistency, Samson is not much better than Surya Kumar Yadav. Arshdeep Singh is yet another inconsistent player. He performs well in one match and then goes on to concede tons of runs in the next few matches. Still the selectors tend to stick with him. |
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lAnd then coming to Rinku Singh, he had a dream IPL run in 2023. But then, he need to show more consistency. Rinku reminds me of several other one-season wonders in the IPL, such as Rahul Tewatia, Saurabh Tiwary, Paul Valthaty, Swapnil Asnodkar and Manpreet Gony.
Rinku Singh has been performing well in T20s and odis after his ipl run, I would not call him one season IPL wonder. He started his IPL career in 2018. And until 2022 he was relatively unknown in the league. He had a decent season in 2022, and followed it up with an exceptional one in 2023. Still 2 seasons is not enough to judge someone. If he performs well in 2024, then I would agree, but we need to wait until that happens. Anyway, at the international level he has performed as per the expectations till now. But there is tough competition and there is no guarantee that he will get a spot in the playing XI on a regular basis. |
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Rinku Singh did well in last season's IPL and in the few matches he played for the Indian team before and after the World Cup, his performances were eye-catching, so it was natural to think that Rinku Singh would have plenty of jail time in this IPL. Kolkata Knight Riders probably had a big offer ready for him but other teams didn't show much interest in taking him up which is why Kolkata Knight Riders got a talented and brilliant finisher like him at a very cheap price. Letting go of Shubman Gill was a wrong decision for Kolkata as Kolkata made it clear through their Facebook post last season that they would never let go of Rinku Singh this season no matter what the cost. Rinku Singh averages an insane 65.50 in T20Is and his strike rate stands at 180.68. And he has similar figures in IPL as well. For the 2023 season, his average was 59.25 and the strike rate was 149.53. I am sure that he will rank in the top-5 list for the batsmen in IPL 2023. He made an excellent comeback after repeated failures. Made his debut in 2018, and in between 2018 and 2020, he played 10 IPL matches and managed to score just 76 runs. He had a decent season in 2022, but the big break came in 2023. |
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If there are enough states that does this like Colarado did, then there are two possibilities. One, either Trump still gets the nomination and they will do their best but they will definitely lose because without being on the ballot then you can't win, and enough states means you are going to be guaranteed to lose, so they will just chant election interference even though it's known that he won't be there a year earlier, and yet they didn't do anything about it. Or they will pick someone else, which is the smart thing to do.
The reality is that we are talking about laws here, and if you break a law, you can't be the president, it is not election interference, it is literally what the law says, but you can't explain this to republicans.
Well.. the election system in the United States is a bit complicated. They follow the electoral college system. So even if Trump is not there in the ballot in most of the states, he can put a proxy candidate who will transfer the electoral college votes to him. Also, does the Colorado ruling means that Trump can't be even a write-in candidate in that state? BTW, what are the chances that Trump will not be on the ballot in any of the states where he is leading currently, such as Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania or Texas? |
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South Africa team lost in this match by 78 runs. In the second match itself we saw excellent batting from the South African batsmen. So after India set a target of 297 runs in today's match I thought South Africa will win today's match as well. But we did not see a good performance from the South African batsmen today. Apart from Zorzi and Marakram, we have not seen any batsmen batting well. South Africa lost 2-1 in the cities by being defeated by a big margin. Arshdeep Singh and Washington Sundar bowled very well today. Indian team players are in good form. It seems that India will win the Test match as well. Absence of Quinton de Kock is a big blow for South Africa. Reeza Hendricks and Tony de Zorzi opened the batting today for the Proteas, and both of them lacked international experience. But then inexperience is not an excuse as the experienced middle-order folded without a fight (Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller). The allrounder Wiaan Mulder, who was included in this match also couldn't perform. It was disappointing for South Africa. They lost the series 1-2, despite having the home advantage. |
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Pakistan has a huge domestic setup and its not a big deal to extract few fast bowlers. PCB is more interested in T20 then test or ODI. Mostly Pakistan is busy playing T20 and whenever there is test series they failed miserably. Few days of criticism and then everything is normal in PCB. Fitness is a concern for Pakistani fast bowlers these days. Its high time for PCB to decide what there strategy will be for Test and ODI. Boxing day test is coming up and Khurram Shahzad is likely to miss that match due to injury. They have a large domestic setup spread out across the provinces, districts and clubs, but the problem is that there is no stability. The structure is being changed every 2-3 years and this is having a big impact on the quality of the matches. And also, there is some impact from the franchise T20 leagues. A lot of Pakistani players are involved in various foreign leagues and in the end the domestic matches suffer from the unavailability of players. All that said, once in a while they are able to produce high quality players such as Khurram Shahzad and Aamer Jamal. |
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For attacking line, Brazil have many players already with Gabriel Jesus, Richarlison, Vinicus Jr, Rodrygo and right now they have youth talented with most impressive performance Endrick. Have experienced when becoming club manager and Carlo Ancelotti is the only one of manager success won Champion League trophy with three difference teams no doubt his tactician will make Brazil have better performance. Have many Brazilian players with top european teams and Carlo Ancelotti not really need adaption because he was ever with Casemiro, Rodrygo, Rihcarlison, Gabriel Militao and Vinicius Jr.
Seems easily for Carlo Ancelotti bring Brazil have good result in the future although Ancelotti still less experience when becoming national teams manager.
On paper, they have such a strong attack. But it didn't worked during CONMEBOL qualifiers. Rodrygo, Vinicus Jr and Gabriel Jesus were present in the squad for qualifiers, but they suffered heavy defeats against Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina. Remember that Colombia is a team that failed to qualify for the 2022 Qatar world cup. I don't have any doubt that the absence of Neymar is having a big impact on their perforamance. Luckily for them, the next round of qualifiers are scheduled for September 2024, and by then he should be 100% fit. |
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The only test match of Indian women vs Australian women is continuing again tomorrow, and on this first day, the Indian women's team played very well. They are all out to the Australia women's team in just one day restricting them to 219 runs. Indian bowlers played very well. Pooja Vastrakar took four wickets of batsmen Perry, Mooney, Sutherland, and last Gardner. What a game performance by her.
She is one of the best players on the Indian women's team. Sneh Rana took three wickets of best-to-best batsmen of the Australian women's team. Deepti Sharma took two wickets of Healy and Jonassen.
India should be able to win this test match. They are trailing by just 121 runs, with 9 wickets in hand. As expected, the Indian spinners had a lot of success against the England women (Sneh Rana and Deepti Sharma). But then it was the pacer Pooja Vastrakar who topped the wicket taking chart for India. Australian lineup was very experienced and even then they collapsed for just 219 runs. And in return, India started their innings very confidently. Kim Garth and Ellyse Perry went for a total of 65 runs in their 8 overs. But then towards the end of day's play Shafali Verma got out. |
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I think Indian players need to get more money. Bumrah was only 12 Crore while Pat Cummins was 20 crore? Starc was 24.75 crore? Bumrah is on the same level as Cummins and Starc if not more. He deserves at least 20 crore. Other finishers/batsmen like Russow, and Head got around 8 crore. Rinktu needs to get at least 5 crore.
Well.. this is how the market works. Jasprit Bumrah could have got a bigger amount, if he was 100% fit. He breaks down very frequently and then misses matches as a result of injury. The same can be said about some of the other Indian pacers, such as Umran Malik and Deepak Chahar. And then coming to Rinku Singh, he had a dream IPL run in 2023. But then, he need to show more consistency. Rinku reminds me of several other one-season wonders in the IPL, such as Rahul Tewatia, Saurabh Tiwary, Paul Valthaty, Swapnil Asnodkar and Manpreet Gony. |
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Definitely better option than their WC captain Bavuma.  So far SA is cruising in this match after couple of wickets and inexperience in the bowling is visible. Atleast they will try part-time bowlers in this match because for pacers the pitch offers nothing on the other side the ball spins but both the spinners are not that much of spinners. 162 needed from 25 overs with 8 wickets in hand. I would even say that South Africa is performing relatively well in this series because Bavuma is not playing. He was a massive handicap for the otherwise talented South African side. But then, once in a while talented players such as Tony de Zorzi break through the ranks, only to be left high and dry by the team management. Keegan Petersen is a prime example. He performed so well against India back in 2021-22. But then he simply vanished from the international scene. His last match was almost a year ago, against West Indies. |
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Yes the points gap between these two clubs is quite far adrift, and it will take at least 4 matches that Al Hilal must have a bad result to get Al Nassr close to them. But the thing is Al Hilal are a very difficult club to beat and to date no club has been able to beat them in the SPL. Al Nassr who are their closest competitors must also suffer defeat when they meet Al Hilal.
Al Hilal have played 17 matches and they only lost 4 points from those 17 matches because in 2 matches they had to draw. Although they suffered 2 draws, it did not affect them much because their competitors lost more points. Al Nassr still have 1 match ahead and if they can win at least their gap changes to 7 points. I can't imagine anyone defeating Al Hilal in Saudi Professional League, at least for this season. They have played 17 matches so far, and have won 15 and drawn 2. They are yet to lose any of their matches. They have the best team balance among all the clubs within SPL. And more importantly, all of their major players are 100% fit as well. For attack, they have Aleksandar Mitrović, Malcom and Michael. Middle order is boosted by Sergej Milinković-Savić and Rúben Neves. And in defense they have Kalidou Koulibaly and then Yassine Bounou as the goalkeeper. It is a dream squad. |
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Considering how PCB allowed Naseem Shah to play in league cricket then dragging him to play for the team, shows how serious PCB has been for its players. Knowingly they make these guys suffer, don't expect something good from them, they haven't been able to schedule a fitness test for the players. All crucial players are either injured or are out of form and playing five day test requires a lot of energy and patience. I don't think they have players who can cope up with test format. Teams like India and Australia have separate squads for both test and limited overs cricket. But in case of Pakistan, they don't have the player depth to attempt anything like this. And that automatically puts additional workload on the players. Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah are regulars in both test and limited overs format. And their frequent injury woes can be blamed on this. Only solution is to increase the player pool. But in order to do that, they need to improve the quality of domestic cricket in Pakistan. |
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Al Nassr's defeat to Al Hilal earlier this month changed the equations upside down. Till then the gap between these two teams were not that much. But now Al Hilal has 47 points and Al Nassr is 10 points behind. A convincing win against Al Riyadh after this match did little to close the gap any further. As of now there is simply no competition for Al Hilal. We are almost half-way through and it is almost certain that they will be the champions for this year. The inclusion of Aleksandar Mitrović has worked wonders for them.
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Now hearing that he's ruled out and going back to Pakistan. He has a decent FC career, which means he has enough overs under his belt so not sure how his body broke after just 1 test and it's not like he was bowling on Pindi's pitch. Very unfortunate for sure. Well... the workload was very heavy during the first test, after David Warner went berserk. And also, before the test match Khurram Shahzad had played in the tour match against the Australian Prime Minister's XI. He bowled a total of 23 overs in that match. So effectively he broke down after playing two tests. Still it is suspect. Perhaps he carried a minor injury to the first test and the heavy load meant that it got worse. Anyway disaster awaits for Pakistan in the second test, if they are planning to include Hasan Ali in the squad. |
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I think it's a good thing that the money is increasing in the IPL each year because things will get juicier as JSRAW said. No other international cricket is played during that tenure and they are taking a good advantage of it.
Although it's a shame that the Australians or any other cricketers doesn't focus on their own nation’s league and focuses on IPL. Cricket is becoming like football and the franchise with more money will rule the cricket in the next few years. IPL is leading here. Quinton De Kock retired from international cricket after World Cup.
In other sports, already that is the case. Franchise leagues are more popular when compared to international competitions. Cricket is slowly moving in that direction with the Indian Premier League (IPL). Also, just because the Australian players are participating in it, you can't say that they are ignoring the local league. Most of these players are active in the ongoing Big Bash League (BBL). And now coming to the case of Quinton De Kock, his retirement has more to do with the racial bias from the South African selectors. He was forced to apologize, after refusing to join the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. |
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Sanju Samson and KL Rahul are at the crease and don't forget the fact that both these batsmen have career batting average of more than 50. However at this point they are trying to settle in rather than going for the risky shots. On the other side, Beuran Hendricks and Nandre Burger have picked up two wickets apiece. Despite the absence of key bowlers such as Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen, the Protean bowlers are doing a very decent job. And once the spinners (Keshav Maharaj and Aiden Markram) come to bowl, it will be even more interesting.
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Ancelotti has signed a one-year contract with the Brazilian football team and will leave Real Madrid to take charge of the Brazilian national team next season. This is the first time in football history that Brazil has appointed a manager from a foreign country to coach their team. Ancelotti has been successful for the club so far but now the responsibility is bigger for him. The team that Ancelotti is taking over from Real Madrid has won the World Cup five times and they have been dreaming of consecutive Mission Hexa wins for several seasons but they have yet to win the Mission Hexa. Brazil fans are dreaming that Ancelotti will win the Mission Hexa.
At this point, Brazil is overdependent on Neymar (who is injury prone). There are promising players such as Gabriel Jesus, Vinícius Júnior and Richarlison, but they don't have the capability of winning matches on their own for Brazil. And at this point, I am not sure what improvement Carlo Ancelotti can bring in the Brazilian national team. Already there is good bonding between the players and their tactics are quite decent. And it needs to be seen whether Ancelotti's training regimen and tactics will work with the Brazilian team. |
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