Sadly in last few years we have no good administrator who love this game and bring good change for the improvement of this game and also have good strategy which helps this game for having the good number of participants which is surely not good right now we have few countries which are capable of having quality teams and mostly others are lacking of experience and funds which are not helping them for increasing quality and performance now they are reducing participants in world cup which is also not positive thing with going for the Olympics is also not sure from this all I understand we are still living 2 or 3 decades behind this current time and have no positive chances in coming years as well even we have good interest in this game from many African and Asian countries which is good for the game.

This is a great approach if you ask me since it livens up test matches in unexpected ways. Tests become more entertaining since they resemble ODIs and T-20s during certain periods.

This was a clever move by McCullum since England is a very strong T-20 team and he is using that advantage excellently in tests.

This is not daring, but stupid IMO. On one side you have Bangladesh who refused to declare against Afghanistan despite getting a lead of over 650 runs and on the other hand we have Stokes who declared the first innings despite having a lead of less than 400. It can be termed as insulting towards the Australian batsmen. Doesn't Stokes think that the Australian batsmen are capable of scoring over 400 in a flat track? And let's not forget the fact that the English attack is being led by James Anderson who will be 41 years soon.

The official explanation is that the media rights holders (Disney-Star) doesn't want smaller (i.e Associate) teams in the world cup. So the number of participants was reduced from 16 in the 2007 ODI World Cup to 10 as of now. But then the question remains. If only 10 nations are participating in this tournament (out of that 5 from the South Asian region), how can you call it as "World" cup? There should have been a middle way, which would make sure that some of the associate nations get to participate and also the media rights holders are happy. But as of now, not even all the full members (12) are included in the world cup.

No one can do anything against these mafias because they have strong influence and power around the globe which works for them and with this all they can bring changes in anywhere specially in Asian region because here we have not strong judicial system and mostly political parties are also involved in this dirty game as well which is another story but as we have too much involvement in this game few decades back now all shifted due to new franchise system which is much better and safer for these mafias.

Recently we have still many rumors about few things, but now it's all mostly for the media intention because balance of power is completely balances and things are happening through top level which is giving all parties their share, so now we have no voices about this all.

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Am excited for this particular series since I feel that England will provide a better challenge to the Australians when compared to India due to their bazball approach. Brendon McCullum should be proud of his epic achievements.

I'll bet on England to win the series and I hope the contest between these two giants goes down to the wire.

I don't have anything against Bangladesh. My only problem is that back in 1999 (a few weeks after the ODI World Cup), Bangladesh was given the test status and the same was refused for Kenya. And back then, Kenya was a much stronger team. Bangladesh had one remarkable victory in the 1999 World Cup against Pakistan, and that was the excuse for giving them the test status. But a lot of people claimed later that this particular match was fixed. Kenya was consistent until 2003 or so, but once Srinivasan and Pawar got the power they destroyed smaller teams like Kenya.

These players in their mid-30s and late 30s can't play all the three formats and then also get involved in the IPL. They need to make a choice. If they want to take part in IPL, let them do that. I have mentioned this a few times - BCCI need to have separate squads for limited overs and test cricket. At this point only a few players such as Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane concentrate fully in the longer format. India do have the talent pool to create separate squads for different formats and domestic players such as Sarfaraz Khan and Abhimanyu Easwaran can be included in the test squad.

Mirpur Sherebangla Stadium is said to be a lucky venue for Bangladesh because top teams like India, England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand have been whitewashed in this Mirpur.

I don't see anything wrong with Rohit Sharma's captaincy as India bowled fairly well in the final of the World Test Championship but it was the complete batting that failed them especially the Indian top order batsmen in both the innings. So what could Rohit Sharma do in this case. But there were some mistakes in the captaincy, those mistakes had to be corrected by losing the wtc final.

Looks like Rohit might get replaced as the test captain in the near future based on information from various sources. Dravid might also get sacked since he hasn't really helped the team achieve much so far.

If Rohit does get replaced, I hope Ashwin gets a shot or Kohli should return since these two have great leadership qualities.

Don't know much about the first part. I thought that the deal was already finalized. And regarding the free broadcast for Asia Cup and ICC World Cup, I guess it is available only for mobile users. Hotstar is trying to replicate the JioTV model, where the OTT platform ended up with significant advertisement revenues during this season of the IPL. That said, I don't know how successful this model can be, given the fact that ad revenues are way below the amount both these companies paid for the IPL media rights (₹25,484 crore for Star India).

Have no idea what Gill was thinking when he posted that tweet about his controversial catch. He has a very promising future since his batting skills are top-notch, but he needs to think more maturely.

These sorts of silly mistakes could cost him his career. He should have let out his frustration privately.