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Bc Manjrekar panvati lagaya.

What is the point of KL Rahul? Not in particularly good form and looks like a very bad captain. Even if he were batting well I'd not want him captaining. This guy's place in the team should be under serious threat. Could have just played Rahane instead. He won't score runs either but atleast he'll lead the team well. Did they not offer Kohli to be substitute captain when Rohit was unavailable? Or did Kohli refuse?

BC, this time I thought the site will never come back on.

Genuine chance and they should not declare early, or even bother declaring. If they declare too soon (like at ~650 around lunch) that gives a chance for Pakistani batsmen to keep England (who are one bowler short and playing with Anderson) in the field for a very long time. Best would be to just bat on and pile up a huge score that'll demoralise and tire them out.

They have nearly perfected their way to play, and whenever the situation/conditions are in their favour/control (which they often ensure it is) they cash in. But today they were handed it on a plate with this disgrace of a pitch, Pakistani administrators should be absolutely ashamed. People waited years for this?

Was following the match, during the middle of the innings it felt like 250-270 would be a good score but Ruturaj single handedly dragged them to 330.

That sounds cheap. What hotels did you stay at?

Both are now List A records: https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/117937.html https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/117935.html

This is just reactionary bullshit though. Players play in the IPL because that is now their main source of income and apparently they are paid on the number of appearances. This is the system that BCCI themselves designed. BCCI can't afford all its star players missing the IPL either, and neither can the players. Compared to that bilateral T20 series are completely worthless. Unless the T20 World Cup is approaching, it makes no sense to play important players in T20Is. Maybe more should be done about ICC wanting to play T20 World Cups every single year and countries clogging up the calender with too many practice T20s series in repsonse.

Pfft... T20 is not real cricket anyways

If this were the 1990s, people would have started throwing stones on Rahul and Rohit's house by now.

They dropped DK when they could have dropped kela and opened with Pant.

Making a mockery out of this chase.

It's bad enough when they do it off season. But having one in the middle of the season is terrible.

Ola outstation shows 2100 Rs for Coimbatore airport to Ooty. You should be able to find other taxi services outside the airport too.

That wasn't even out. But then any batsman who doesn't even know whether or not to review an lbw deserves to be out.

Got Cuphead on a sale. Bc what a difficult game.

https://m.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/123857/venkatesh-iyer-fine-after-being-hit-on-the-neck I was checking the scores throughout the day, didn't know he had got injured. Thankfully he is fine. Also, quality knock from ?Shaw. Currently batting on 104* with team 130/3.

Quite a sharp burst of rain last evening in Navi Mumbai, on the way back home. Extremely windy too, so the rain hits you in pulses and its loud. Very poor visibility and chutya motorcyclists riding without headlights.

Like what?

What's a good card for travel (train/flight/hotel) bookings? Preferably something that also doesn't incur fuel surcharge. Not many. Only some 800 points left. I regularly used the points to pay for mobile recharges and Zomato purchases. Don't think the points would transfer over anyways.

Everyone and their dog got some fever/cold/cough within the past two weeks here. Some of them diagnosed Covid. A friend started coughing blood after 6-7 days of cough. A relative's baby in ICU for 3 days due to pneumonia. There is also a Swine flu surge at the moment. Huge dahi handi celebrations expected tomorrow.

I have a Citi Rewards Card.

Citibank to sell its retail business in India to Axis. Is there any point in continuing, or should I just close my card with them?