I also totally agree with your review that no one will be able to block and prevent bitcoin adoption, not even the government side will be able to block bitcoin adoption, despite IMF efforts to prevent El Salvador from adopting bitcoin, but I personally think IMF efforts will not succeed

I have sad news to share that we have lost another Australian legend. Andrew Symonds died yesterday in a car accident. I do remember the matches where Shane Warne and Andrew Symonds together won many matches for the Australians. 

Well.. it comes down to politics. The Indian government feels that there is a need to get Afghanistan on their side, because Pakistan is also having a huge influence on that country. On the other hand, Nepal is never treated as an equal partner by India. The government considers Nepal to be a vassal state, and that is one of the reasons why Nepal has increasingly turning to China for help nowadays. These political issues get reflected in dealings between sports bodies as well. To be honest, boards such as PCB, ECB and CA has done more to help Nepal cricket when compared to the BCCI.

SRH won't qualify for playoffs in this season of IPL. Yesterday's match was a disaster for them. None of their batters were able to stay put and lead the chase. Ofcourse 178 was a big score on that pitch but I expected them to chase it. Abishek Sharma did his level best but that shot was not good enough.

Even with a big win it wasn't possible, very few team players have been playing with consistency and according to the match situation. In yesterday's match Chennai team's top order failed so is the rest. If there is some early wickets, the upcoming players should stand to make partnership. Mumbai too doesn't had the strong performance, losing 5 wickets to reach 98 runs is bad. If two more wickets have fallen, then match might've got changed.

We have seen England suffer from batting problems in test matches in the past. Especially when the ball is moving off the seam. And also when the ball is swinging.

So, I believe this is going to be great for England. I am sure he will be able to make the players be able to play fearlessly. Players in test matches often don't come forward because they fear a good-paced bouncer will be coming. So, I believe that fear will be a lot less if he coaches.

Let's not forget the fact that the SLCB is receiving around $15-$20 million from the ICC every year. I would like to know where all this money is flowing in to, because till now I haven't seen any growth outside Colombo. Cricket in Sri Lanka remains confined to Colombo and it's suburbs. If players from other regions of Sri Lanka want to compete in first class cricket, then they need to travel to Colombo in order to do so. They don't even have a proper region-based domestic cricket structure and for the player pool they are entirely dependent on the cricket clubs in Colombo.

In all this debate IOC and ICC also need to find some common ground.

I stopped following their discussion but back then one main roadblock was that IOC wanted or putting pressure on ICC about sending senior national teams and BCCI along with others (BIG-3 + ICC) were against it due to bilateral series and ofc some assumption that what would happen if ICC tournaments are clashing with the Olympics.

Not sure if it's resolved or not.

I forgot that there are certain situations going on in Sri Lanka which might affect their performance in the field. If anyone doesn't know what is going on in Sri Lanka I suggest them to open the news.

Now back to cricket, I know that this situation is quite bad for Sri Lanka. But I still do not believe that Bangladesh is going to perform well enough to beat them because the Bangladeshi cricketers just cannot play test cricket. I don't know if they don't have enough patience or if they don't have enough skill. I just know that if I trust Bangladesh to win this test series I am going to make a mistake.

Yes, I agree with most of the points here. T10 really looks like something that should be done way into the future. Cricket is not in a good position right now even though a lot of people are going to say otherwise. I believe the addition of T20 cricket in the Olympics is surely going to be a great step taken for the best.

The only thing that I don't agree entirely with is that ODI is going to be dead soon. I believe ODI still has a lot of time to its popularity but it is true that as T20 is becoming more popular the longer formats of cricket will surely become a lot less popular around the whole world. If ICC wants to actually improve the situation of cricket it needs to concentrate on gaining popularity with the T20 format.

I believe you’re right because the Srilankan player’s will probably be distracted by the sad events taking place at home, and this will be an advantage for Bangladesh player’s but do you’ll feel that they’ll be able to capitalise on it. Furthermore I’m backing Bangladesh to win or expecting the match to end up in a draw because I feel that they’re slightly better than Srilanka due to home advantage, but it seems that many here are backing Srilanka so maybe I’m the only one underestimating Srilanka?.

2. Yes. Cricket needs Olympics. That would make sure that associate nations receive funds from their respective governments. If the ICC doesn't want this, then they should increase the associate funding by 50x or 100x. And a popular sport is not something that is restricted to 4-5 countries.

There is no type of influence like this in any other sports by the better performing or any teams with better money in the sports body.

Yes there can be certain cases made like in football there are some Russian persons in very important positions in football and that's why the 2018 World Cup was held in Russia,  but other than that the problem is not that major like cricket,  where it seems like the sports body is almost controlled by a certain group of cricket boards.

I think we all remember the last cricket world cup where Shakib Al Hasan was the only one holding the whole Bangladesh team together with his brilliant performance. He proves that he is actually the best cricketer in the whole world. But the Bangladesh cricket board is full of donkeys and people without a brain who obviously don't know how to do their work and that's why Shakib Al Hasan was never exploited with his full potential. If they decide to play against Sri Lanka without Shakib Al Hasan they will lose,  and I want everyone to remember this post because trust me, this prediction is going to be 100% accurate.

I think you are talking about the Bangladesh versus Sri Lanka series? Yes, this is obviously going to be a really boring series in my opinion also. I think Bangladesh is really that in test cricket and Sri Lanka is obviously going to do that against a team like Bangladesh, especially in the test cricket format. I really don't expect too much from Bangladesh because, to be honest, they cannot play test cricket.