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An excerpt from r/cricket on reddit:

He might never become as good as Jadeja, but Axar is a brilliant all-round cricketer in his own right.

I've grown up watching test match cricket being played with a grind-to-win approach. But watching the Poms play test cricket in the past few months with their newfound aggressive gung-ho approach named 'Bazball'- or whatever the fearsome tweak that is- has me stuck in a dilemma. I love watching this...

Williamson should bat at 4, I reckon. Conway, who looked so solid as an opener in the previous UK tour now finds himself batting two slots too low.

Seems like it's 'The Gabba', a place where Tim Paine apparently couldn't wait to 'have his opposition teams at' over these years; which has brought about his demise in the end (again). Lost to India there earlier this year after all that hype he'd made, and these texts (or s*xts) too were sent...

Yep, a change for good. But what's incredibly sad is that it comes at a price, and that is Azeem's career itself.

True that, but my context was different. He did nothing wrong upto that point. To not give him more chances all of a sudden was bizarre to me, personally.

This lad deserved a better farewell.

Absolutely, that's exactly what it is. Cricket is but a religion in the subcontinent, and people take it's results as a 'matter of life or death'; which is quite unhealthy.

Funny how your team is a world class side just a few weeks ago and after a couple of losses (albeit big), the mentality of the analysts and viewers takes a U-turn. Tough sport this

Yeah, my ears can do very well without Sanjay Manjrekar's voice.

This year's world cup just doesn't feel like one at all. The commentary team isn't the most well compiled lot either. Or is it just me beginning to lose taste?

Just practise a few hundred coin toss mock sessions, win it on the match day, and elect to bowl. That's the way forward in Dubai.

Here is a list of "number-types", each of which resembles a particular stadium. Type 22 - Antigua Type 19 - Brit Oval Type 12 - Harare Type 09 - Cape Town Type 13 - Johannesburg Type 29 - Jamaica Type 14 - Karachi Type 30 - Leeds Type 06 - Auckland Type 31 - Cardiff Type 16 - Melbourne Type 21 -...

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