Cricket match prediction discussions

[Sithara007]

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In India, we don't need to pay taxes on the income that is earned in other countries. So any income that is generated in the UAE is not considered for tax purposes in India. And there is no income tax in the UAE as well. UAE is one of the few countries, where there is no tax on your income. So it is a win-win situation for players who take part in tournaments that are held in the UAE. On the other hand, player income for IPL and other tournaments that are held in India are subjected to Indian income tax (maximum rate of 42.7%).

I am not aware of these rules, so basically you can travel to other country and work and you are excluded from paying the taxes even with temporary permits, that is a really great opportunity if that is the situation and that means all the tours India makes oversees, the players are not subject to the match fees as income tax, they only need to pay for the matches played in India ?.

There are certain limitations. The tax laws state that if an individual resides in India for more than 6 months out of the financial year, then his worldwide income become taxable. Freelancers in India, who works for foreign employers need to pay income tax on their salaries, although this may be already subjected to income tax in the country of the employer. In case of sports sector, these laws are a bit more complex, as they have special exclusions.

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[romero121]

Even after years once again Yuvraj Singh have reached close to his previous record of six sixes in an over. During the road safety series for Legends he had done this against South Africa Legends. India made a score of 203 losing three wickets. South Africa was able to reach only 148 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs.

During the post match conversation with Yuvraj, he mentioned of smashing four sixes in a over. He was with the plans of hitting the fifth six, but he decided to be on the strike for the next two overs to keep the score good. How responsible is these legendary players.

[Sithara007]

Even after years once again Yuvraj Singh have reached close to his previous record of six sixes in an over. During the road safety series for Legends he had done this against South Africa Legends. India made a score of 203 losing three wickets. South Africa was able to reach only 148 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs.

During the post match conversation with Yuvraj, he mentioned of smashing four sixes in a over. He was with the plans of hitting the fifth six, but he decided to be on the strike for the next two overs to keep the score good. How responsible is these legendary players.

LOL.. India seems to be invincible as far as this "Legends" series is concerned. I am not surprised, because the remaining teams don't have their best players. At least half the members of the South African side were irregular players back in their playing days. I am talking about players such as Monde Zondeki, Alviro Petersen and Thandi Tshabalala. Only a few, such as Jonty Rhodes, Makhaya Ntini and Justin Kemp can be called as "regulars".   

[ene1980]

During the post match conversation with Yuvraj, he mentioned of smashing four sixes in a over. He was with the plans of hitting the fifth six, but he decided to be on the strike for the next two overs to keep the score good. How responsible is these legendary players.

You cannot take these exhibition matches to place a bet, all the matches are played without much seriousness and they need to conduct a tournament for the elder players and the team members keeps on changing. Bangladesh is the only team to win a match in the legend series and today they are playing against South Africa and i wont be surprised if Bangladesh today beats South Africa.

[bryant.coleman]

You cannot take these exhibition matches to place a bet, all the matches are played without much seriousness and they need to conduct a tournament for the elder players and the team members keeps on changing. Bangladesh is the only team to win a match in the legend series and today they are playing against South Africa and i wont be surprised if Bangladesh today beats South Africa.

I have watched a few matches. It will be wrong to say that they are played without any seriousness. But the fitness level is not good for many of the players. It is not surprising, considering the fact that many of the players are aged 40 and above. Also they haven't played in a while. A few of the players have maintained excellent fitness levels, such as Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag of India, and Tillakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka.

[7788bitcoin]

^^ I am glad to see that some of these players who were retired a decade ago are keeping their fitness level, i was expecting a normal tournament in the beginning but some are dominating especially Kevin Pietersen and if Andrew Flintoff was also in the team they would have won the entire tournament as they both can smash any of these bowlers out of the park as they are really fit and can smash the ball a long way.

[Sithara007]

^^ I am glad to see that some of these players who were retired a decade ago are keeping their fitness level, i was expecting a normal tournament in the beginning but some are dominating especially Kevin Pietersen and if Andrew Flintoff was also in the team they would have won the entire tournament as they both can smash any of these bowlers out of the park as they are really fit and can smash the ball a long way.

Kevin Pietersen is the captain of the England side, but so far he has failed to perform (apart from the one match against India, where he made 72). Andrew Flintoff is currently working as a television presenter, and I don't think that he will find this series very rewarding in terms of financials. He would have made a difference for sure, as I have heard that he still works hard in maintaining the fitness levels.

[bryant.coleman]

There is some excellent news for the Big 3 supporters. The ICC (Big 3 faction) has successfully sabotaged the proposal to include cricket in 2028 Olympics (which will be held in Los Angeles, United States). So as usual, the discussion now moves to the proposal to include the sport for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. Cricket Australia is in favor of including cricket in 2032 Games. BTW, the ICC is saying that they are not ready for the inclusion of cricket for the 2028 or 2032 editions, but may consider for the 2036 version. Going by their delaying tactics, I don't expect cricket to be included in Olympics before 2220.

https://cricketaddictor.com/cricket-news/cricket-amongst-the-sports-willing-to-be-part-of-the-2032-brisbane-olympics/

An ICC’s source revealed that the apex body of the sport was not yet ready to make a formal bid to join the 2028 Olympic games in Los Angeles or the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. Thus, they would depend on the event organizers, making the sport a host city pick. Cricket featured only in the 1900 Olympic games in Paris, where only the United Kingdom and France participated in a two-day match.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Sad news coming in from Zimbabwe: Heath Streak is banned for 8 years, for taking part in match fixing. He is accused of fixing multiple matches (both international matches and those in franchise T20 leagues) and one important aspect is that he received a part of the bribe in the form of Bitcoin. This is very bad, as he was one of the heroes during my childhood days. Details of the charges against him can be found here:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/heath-streak-handed-eight-year-ban-for-breaching-icc-anti-corruption-code-1258953

[Juggy777]

Sad news coming in from Zimbabwe: Heath Streak is banned for 8 years, for taking part in match fixing. He is accused of fixing multiple matches (both international matches and those in franchise T20 leagues) and one important aspect is that he received a part of the bribe in the form of Bitcoin. This is very bad, as he was one of the heroes during my childhood days. Details of the charges against him can be found here:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/heath-streak-handed-eight-year-ban-for-breaching-icc-anti-corruption-code-1258953

@Visnu.Reang yea even I read about this and for a while I was wondering if he was a new player, but then suddenly I recollected that he was an old player. Also I really like how the media finds a way to insert bitcoin name in this, and this also shows that player’s are aware of bitcoin which is good publicity for cryptocurrency.

[bryant.coleman]

@Visnu.Reang yea even I read about this and for a while I was wondering if he was a new player, but then suddenly I recollected that he was an old player. Also I really like how the media finds a way to insert bitcoin name in this, and this also shows that player’s are aware of bitcoin which is good publicity for cryptocurrency.

Personally I would say that we should be happy about it. Any sort of publicity is going to be good for Bitcoin. As such this is not Bitcoin's problem. Corruption has been a big issue in cricket for the last few decades. And the ICC has zero interest in eliminating match fixing. They always punish the players, but when the franchise owners are involved in match fixing, they treat them with kid gloves. For example take the case of Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, whose owners were convicted of match fixing in 2015.  

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Personally I would say that we should be happy about it. Any sort of publicity is going to be good for Bitcoin. As such this is not Bitcoin's problem.

I do not agree with the statement as i do not want to see bitcoin being included in scam and illegal activities, anyone who knows about bitcoin knows that it is not the issue with bitcoin but for a non bitcoiner these sort of negative news are not inspiring either to look into them and if you are looking for publicity in 2021 when it is the biggest earners in the financial sector and still looking for advertisement then it is definitely not the way.

Corruption has been a big issue in cricket for the last few decades. And the ICC has zero interest in eliminating match fixing. They always punish the players, but when the franchise owners are involved in match fixing, they treat them with kid gloves. For example take the case of Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, whose owners were convicted of match fixing in 2015.  

Corruption is a huge problem in any sport and the situation with IPL teams is that the BCCI should give them harsher punishment and ICC has nothing to do with the event.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Corruption is a huge problem in any sport and the situation with IPL teams is that the BCCI should give them harsher punishment and ICC has nothing to do with the event.

Agreed. It was the BCCI which decided to hand out very lax punishment to both the franchises. And they allowed the franchise ownership to remain unchanged (although the teams were suspended for two years). With any other sports league, the franchise contract would have been cancelled. The owners indulging in match fixing is a very serious offense. And players such as Sreesanth got life bans for accusations, that were later proven to be false.

[pakhitheboss]

This match will be a close one SRH needs 34 runs in 18 balls, they still have wickets in hand and anything can happen. I had put my money on RCB but it looks like SRH might change the game result. A couple of sixes can change the match, at the moment RCB still looks like they can win this match.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

And players such as Sreesanth got life bans for accusations, that were later proven to be false.

These accusations spoiled the career of Sreesanth and he had to join the BJP to get the opportunity to return to cricket and he is back in the Kerala team and even played in the recently concluded domestic series but he was not that effective as he went for runs in almost all the matches even though he looks fit as he was into body building in the last few years and i do not see him returning in the IPL as well.

I had put my money on RCB but it looks like SRH might change the game result. A couple of sixes can change the match, at the moment RCB still looks like they can win this match.

SRH needs to find some players who could win matches for them in the middle order, till the last few overs i thought SRH would win the match but then they messed up. RCB looks like they finally got a well settled team with the inclusion of Glenn Maxwell and Washington Sundar.

[Sithara007]

And players such as Sreesanth got life bans for accusations, that were later proven to be false.

These accusations spoiled the career of Sreesanth and he had to join the BJP to get the opportunity to return to cricket and he is back in the Kerala team and even played in the recently concluded domestic series but he was not that effective as he went for runs in almost all the matches even though he looks fit as he was into body building in the last few years and i do not see him returning in the IPL as well.

There are a lot of rumors floating around regarding to how Sreesanth got trapped. According to Sreesanth himself, he had a spat with Dinesh Karthik and the conspiracy to destroy his career was then hatched by N Srinivasan (to whom Dinesh Karthik is very close). I am not a big fan of N Srinivasan. That guy almost destroyed the global outreach of cricket and many of the smaller test playing nations when he was the ICC chairman. He turned cricket from a sport to some sort of organized business and controlled Indian cricket like a mafia chief.

Sreesanth got the life ban when his career was at the peak. Now he is 38 years old and there is no point in getting the ban removed. And he was wrong to get involved politically. He joined the BJP in 2016 hoping that they would help him with the ban, but they never helped him and just made use of his fame for the elections. The ban was removed only in 2020 when his career was almost finished.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

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There are a lot of rumors floating around regarding to how Sreesanth got trapped. According to Sreesanth himself, he had a spat with Dinesh Karthik and the conspiracy to destroy his career was then hatched by N Srinivasan (to whom Dinesh Karthik is very close). I am not a big fan of N Srinivasan. That guy almost destroyed the global outreach of cricket and many of the smaller test playing nations when he was the ICC chairman. He turned cricket from a sport to some sort of organized business and controlled Indian cricket like a mafia chief.

The only problem with this argument is that Dinesh karthik have a much bigger problem with Murali Vijay who eloped with his wife and i do not know whether he played any role in his career and i do not think Dinesh Karthik will have a much bigger problem with anyone else than Murali Vijay.

Sreesanth got the life ban when his career was at the peak. Now he is 38 years old and there is no point in getting the ban removed. And he was wrong to get involved politically. He joined the BJP in 2016 hoping that they would help him with the ban, but they never helped him and just made use of his fame for the elections. The ban was removed only in 2020 when his career was almost finished.

Sreesanth joined BJP to get back in the team and if not for his involvement with the right wing party he would not have made to the Kerala team even in 2020 and it is too late to make a comeback in the much competitive Indian team or in the IPL.

[Sithara007]

Sreesanth joined BJP to get back in the team and if not for his involvement with the right wing party he would not have made to the Kerala team even in 2020 and it is too late to make a comeback in the much competitive Indian team or in the IPL.

I still don't think that he got anything in return from the BJP. After the court said that his life ban was illegal, the BCCI still refused to remove it. On the other hand, the BCCI took a much more relaxed approach with ex-players such as Mohammad Azharuddin, who were proved to have indulged in corruption. Now see the irony here. BCCI, which is under the control of the BJP refused to help Sreesanth despite his life ban removed by the court, but took a more helpful approach towards Azharuddin who contested elections for the opposition INC. My take on this is very simple. Sreesanth might have thought that the BCCI would help him if he joins BJP. But they saw no reason to help him and on the other hand further delayed the lifting of his ban despite the ruling by the court.

[Vishnu.Reang]

The only problem with this argument is that Dinesh karthik have a much bigger problem with Murali Vijay who eloped with his wife and i do not know whether he played any role in his career and i do not think Dinesh Karthik will have a much bigger problem with anyone else than Murali Vijay.

The media has constantly targeted Murali Vijay and his wife (Nikita) over this. But from what I heard, the real story is much different. Dinesh Karthik was born in to an orthodox Tamil Brahmin family and he was forced to marry the daughter of his father's friend as soon as he turned 21 (in 2007). It was an arranged marriage and Karthik felt no attraction towards Nikita and they never had any physical relationship. His affair with Dipika Pallikal started in 2011, and around the same time Murali Vijay started having an affair with Nikita. But his parents were against divorcing Nikita, and also issues were created when Dipika's parent's asked Karthik to convert. However when it was revealed that Nikita was pregnant with Vijay's child, they finally allowed to divorce.

[UmerIdrees]

Sachin Tendulkar donates INR 10 million to help India fight Covid-19 crisis.
This is a big initiative and it will also encourage more legends contribute to this noble cause. There is a "Mission Oxygen" campaign in India in which this money will be used to procure oxygen concentrators.