Pakistan always like to go for experienced players when there are major tournaments and that is what happened when they dropped Abid Ali during the world cup selection process, i did not know that he made centuries in his debut in ODI and now in Test match and it must be a rare double for a player as i have not heard anyone doing so in the past.

Australia won the match easily and Starc and Lyon was the pick of the bowlers as they shared 8 wickets between them in the second innings and with this match we have an idea how the series will unfold.

Unless and until India can pick up wickets and put pressure back to West Indies there is no way they are going to win the match, winning the toss was a crucial part i think because the West Indies were able to control the run rate and restrict India and now West Indies are chasing really well and dominating the Indian bowlers as they are taking apart and clearing the boundary with ease.

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I am against monopoly and i am not happy to see a single investor dominating the entire mining space, i would like to see many investors competing with each other and if a single individual or a company dominate the entire network then it is a security risk.

West Indies lost an opener earlier but now they are playing carefully and if they are able to build a good partnership without loosing much wickets and since this is the T20 era you cannot trust any total below 300 as the players will score slowly and when the target is below 100 then they will view the match as a T20 and you will cover the run rate required and it all depends upon how India bowls.

I think Lyon will play a major role in picking up the wickets in the final two days, if you are talking about part time bowlers then Australia does have some good part time bowlers like Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith as both can bowl decent leg spins and Travis Head is a multi talent who can bowl off spin as well as a good wicket keeper. Australia will win the match with the way they bowled in the first innings and how long New Zealand can prolong the match is the interesting part.

The point here is that New Zealand will not chase anything beyond 300 runs as the pitch will not be that easy to bat on, you can see how the Australian players struggled in the second innings as the New Zealand bowlers were peppering them with short balls and it was not that easy to bat on and in that case how can we expect them to chase a total like that and they have a good spinner in Lyon to contain one end.

Even when there was a war because of political situations no one asked Muttiah Muralitharan to go back to India, he was well supported by the Sri Lankan government as well as their cricket board when ever there was a chucking issue when the Australian umpires targeted him they stood by him and even walked out of the ground as protest and what are you talking about, Muttiah Muralitharan was their best cricketer ever, if you take any world eleven he will have a place in the team.

I am now confused why the Australian captain is not declaring the innings, when Warner was batting at 300 plus he declared the innings even with plenty of time left and now the Australia is leading over 400 runs and still they are not planning to declare the innings and they have a bowler short and they need to bowl 30 plus overs and try to pick the maximum wickets and the bowlers will get a good rest and then they will finish off the match the next day, but they are still playing with 6 wickets down .

Is it not too obvious to understand that i am willing to spare 0.001BTC for the pool, do you really want to have an agreement to understand that . Oh well since some of you have difficulty in understanding things, i am willing to give 0.001BTC as pool entry , hope you are happy now because i made things easier so that even kids would understand .

There were sponsors and volunteers last year and if you are not able to get the sponsors then what is the point in running a competition and hence a nominal fee does not hurt anyone, even if the joining fee will be 0.001BTC and if we have ten players then it will be a decent amount that goes to the winner and anyone can spare those amounts i guess.

The problem with India is the huge amount of population and it is not that easy to get into the team and majority of the players who play for UAE might not be migrating to UAE to play cricket initially but they will eventually play for the country if they are able to perform in club tournaments but i am not sure about the rest of the countries.

FYI Muttiah Muralitharan is born and brought up in Sri Lanka and you cannot call all these players moving out and if you are going to view as such then you will not find any players in any team as there is a lot of migration that happened in the last 200 years .

It is true that keralites are not happy with the team selection, if you look at the amount of exposure and opportunity Pant is getting even with constant failures is frustrating as if there are no other players in India to be picked in that position and Pant might be getting the nod every time may be because they are from the same state, the reason why there is a huge cry for Sanju Samson is because there are not much players that are in contention to play for India but Samson is performing really well for a long time and still he is neglected.

It is the biased decision of the selectors, Sanju Samson was selected for two T20 series and that too against weaker opponents and still if you are not getting a chance to play the game what do you call that, people are selected just to supply water and warm the bench . They could have selected the retired Sachin Tendulkar instead to have a high morale instead of selecting a player just to view the match live in the stadium .

New Zealand is struggling as they lost half their side within 30 overs and they sent out a night watchman and he just lasted one ball . Ross Taylor and Watling are the proper batsman left and they will be playing to avoid the follow on and Australia just proved that they are undefeated at home except against India  . There more days to go and we will have a result in this match.

I do not think that these cooling period was created to aide England but the GCC countries especially UAE and other Arab nations as the players are hired mercenaries as none of the people from their country are playing for their national team and all of the team members are filled with players from India, Pakistan and other countries and i guess these leeway rules are made to help them rather than other countries, but then if there is a loophole then other countries will take advantage of it.

If you are talking a lot of shit then you are bound to listen to these critics too and that is the case with Conor McGregor he talked a lot of trash and yet he got defeated in his fight against Mayweather and then against Khabib and the level of trash talking in both these fights were personal because Conor knew it was the toughest opponents in his career and when you get smashed single handily then expect the trolls having a life on its own .
 
If he is able to do that it is great for his career and the fight fans as we will see more fights from him and there is no doubt he changed the fight game.

I said this in this forum, if Sanju Samson was not selected in the match played in Kerala the entire team will be booed and on top of that they lost the match, just imagine the response they got and my friends were in the stadium and i knew they were planning to boo Pant and Kohli and the team management if he was not selected and so is the reason i predicted that here in this forum  .

this is where i predicted how the fans will behave .
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5102095.msg53291165#msg53291165

I am sure you are talking about your own experience when you were a kid that you prefer to bat rather than to bowl and so does majority of the kids but when you look at the current Indian team they have the best bowling line up, in T20 they might go for runs and they have the batsman to back the bowlers and the last match against West Indies was a prime example.

Australia lost two wickets and first one was an unfortunate decision and Burns did not go for the review as the ball was clearly missing the leg stump and  Warner got out because of a brilliant catch by Wagner, Ferguson made his debut but he was taken apart by the Australian batsman and hence he just bowled 4 overs and finally Smith gets the opportunity to bat and hopefully his form continues in this match.

It was a real onslaught and they destroyed the West Indies bowlers, even though KL Rahul missed his century, Kohli just made look batting easy as he was clearing the ropes with ease and now West Indies lost their second wicket and there is no way they are going to chase this total and India will win the series with more drama as they lost one T20 and hence this is not a dead rubber.

Edit:
West Indies lost their third wicket and it was a great catch by Dube.