Are you talking about any past matches as Clarke retired sometime back  . If you are talking about Smith then he was really taking his time on the crease and so does the rest of the players as it was not an easy pitch to bat. The current scenario is that both the teams does not have any major advantage and New Zealand will put pressure on the tail and try to pick the wickets so that they will have an upper hand but then it all depends upon how New Zealand batsman is able to cope up with the pitch situation as i have no clue who will be winning the match after seeing the first day.

i am sure that the rules were strict earlier and you cannot migrate from one country to country and start playing, now a days the rules are more liberal and it might be because the political situation around the globe is changing as well and the moral standards in sports also have a change and i think that is what is happening in cricket as earlier if you need to represent the nation either your grand parents or you must be born in that country but now a days the rules are liberal and i am not aware of the extent but i am sure it is not that strict like it used to be.

Jose Aldo is a veteran of the sport but he is not 40 years old, he just turned 33 years and yet it looks like his prime is over because he has been to many wars inside and outside the cage, his training is just brutal as they are not just sparring as they go full contact fight in the gym too and hence you cannot have a long fighting career if you are spending your time knocking each other out in the gym too.

If you take a realistic take on things every athlete who came into a sport because of their skills and then they think about monetizing their skills and have a good career and that is the case with every sportsman or women and there is a limited opportunity for any sports person to make their money and by mid thirty their sporting career will end and the amount of money they make during that period will be their asset, so there is nothing more than money they make during that period as they do not have a secondary career they can make money.

West Indies lost 3 quick wickets but Hetmyer and Pollard are smashing the bowlers around the ground and they are dealing in sixes and fours and they are keeping up the run rate now and it is interesting how long they can continue to score like this as the total to chase is really huge and one more wicket and it will be difficult for them to chase but for cricket fans enjoy the treat as ball is flying all over the ground.

Indian openers started really well but West Indies opener Evin Lewis is injured in the field and it looks like he injured his knee and he is carried away from the ground and it is doubtful that he will be able to play again in this match as he was in good form in this tournament, India is scoring at almost 12 an over and 220 will be the score they are targeting and since this is a series decider and no wickets are lost they could pick up the tempo to have a good finish.

Congrats buwaytress on winning the give away and glad to see that someone from this forum won the competition, i missed this one but i will be watching this space from now on to see what is going on  . I am looking forward to the next competition from you  .

I will be amazed if Watford will be able to score a goal in this match against Liverpool and i am expecting Liverpool to score atleast two goals.

So the last tour of Sri Lanka was for ODI and T20 and now the first Test after a long time, Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat and i see all their players in this tournament and hopefully the series will be a good one as both teams are not in great form but i am hoping Pakistan to do better in Test matches and Sri Lanka usually performs well once in a full moon as we saw against South Africa so we cannot under estimate the Sri Lankan team too and they won the last series in Pakistan, so it is a huge challenge for Pakistan.

The series between Australia and New Zealand are always competitive and earlier Australia used to dominate every team but for a while they lost to India in their home soil and now they have bounced back and started performing well after the return of Steven Smith and Warner after suspension and the series depends upon which team is able to pick 20 wickets, both New Zealand and Australia have in form batsman and hence the bowlers are crucial to determine the fate of the series.

You really cannot underestimate Colby Covington because he is portraying as a dick persona, he is really skillful and i never saw anyone beat, Demian Maia, Rafael dos Anjos and Robbie Lawler that easy and his cardio is off the charts and it is possible that everyone is concentrating on his bad trash talking skills than his fighting skills and may be because the opponents were thinking the same way, what ever it may be i am expecting a great fight.

The chances of seeing another draw against Fury and Wilder is minimal as you really cannot trust the judges and if the fight goes the distance i am hoping that the judges will give the decision to Wilder but as always Wilder does need one clean punch to knock out anyone in any weight division and he can even move down because he is not a heavily built heavyweight boxer.
Joshua is having a sign of relief and i bet he will not go for another tough fight as he might need a long rest and have an easy fight just to defend the belt.

Bumrah is a special bowler but India does have other talents that could take the game away from West Indies, India is not playing Mohammed Shami and what happened to Ravichandran Ashwin as he was a T20 specialist and i think Hardik Pandya is also suffering from injury and not sure why they are shuffling with Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal and why are they not playing consistently and if they are shuffling the team like that all the time then they loose match practice and that will affect their game too. In short India does have the bowlers to restrict West Indies if they pick the right players who proved in international cricket and not to experiment all the time.

Stefan Struve has a crazy heart condition and so was the reason he could not fulfill his potential in my opinion, as per the medical documents he was having a leaking aortic valve as well as an enlarged heart and to fight in the top division in the world is just out of the world experience and this was identified well during 2012 or 2013 and after that  his career declined a lot and i am not sure he is fully healthy as these heart conditions will not go away and i really do not know how the doctors are giving him the permission to fight.

I guess you are a Korean Zombie fan to favor him to win against  Frankie Edgar who is one of the best fighters in the world and still now i sincerely feel that Conor McGregor ducked him to become the 145 pound champion, when Conor was moving up his ranks Frankie move down the division from 155 pounds and they never faced each other even though there were rumors about a match up and Conor fast tracked to the title and if he was to face Frankie Edgar at that time he would have faced a tough challenge and now coming into this fight, age is a factor and if Frankie Edgar is healthy i will go with him to win the match.

You do not need add sir to present the case of Yahoo, his case is genuine and it might not be a bug per se but if the site allowed to wage a bet and if they are not willing to fulfill that then it is not the way it should be, if he lost that bet the company will keep the amount waged and since he won they are having many excuses and it is not the way things should be, if the site allowed those max bet when he played and won they are liable to pay and it is as simple as that.
I know it is a new site and they need sort these issues if they left out and once more it is the site's fault but i do not agree with the scam accusation if they are willing to sort the issues with anyone who waged and won.

To see a world where paper currency is fully replaced in a decade's time is impossible, you might see that in the developed countries but you have to take into consideration the poorer nations and how on earth do you think that will happen on a global scale, it is an impossible dream to imagine that the entire world will transact digitally and it is not going to happen in a century. The bitcoin market is just ten years old and it will take more than a couple of decades to reach everyone let alone dreaming of having a world dominated by digital currency.

One more thing, becoming digital and becoming crypto based are entirely different view of point and it is an entirely different topic altogether.

Here is the transaction details
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/0b3290a5e7291112f7c9f8de597878e09eaffb29d1b4419809f0d2b7da82022b

Thank you for the help.

Stefan Struve was having health issues for a very long time and so was the reason he was not that active and whether he is completely recovered is yet to be known and if he is healthy he has the longest reach along with Jon Jones in MMA and he never took advantage of his strengths and if he is able to do that he would have been a better fighter.

Jairzinho Rozenstruik looks scary and if he wins by KO he will have the opportunity to fight for the title in a few fights as there are not much competition in the heavyweight division.

West Indies without a strong team posted a total of over 200 runs and India needs 208 runs to win  , it is a huge total to chase even for a team like India and they do not have any explosive players and if you are going over 10 runs per over it is difficult for any team and it all depends upon how Rohit Sharma can give them a good start, if West Indies could bowl a good line and length then they can win the match as they have the total to win.

I am not aware of a rule that says you cannot give lecture about a technology which is publicly available and if US is having economic sanctions towards a country you cannot have any business with them is strange, i am not aware of any wrong doing by Virgil Griffith other than he went for a blockchain conference, now it is evident that his plan to go to North Korea was not a wise decision as he will be spending a long time fighting to clear his name.

These kind of behavior will bring shame on the nation for arresting someone without much proof and how the government wants to control every individual.