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Hahahahaha! @TweetsOfBhogle: Batters scoring 250, what is bowlers' role? @arshdeepsinghh: Sir, it is to stop the other team under 250 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Arshdeep will blow away SA next time

Australia were 104-1 in 8.3 overs. And then they scored just 77 runs in 69 deliveries. Atrocious! #AusVsSL

Dhoni advised Italy Captain?

Pak is John Cena

@kartik_kannan Oh no ! Chatgpt has invaded twitter.

I happened to watch Nasser Hussain's comments along with Mike Atherton on the Sky Sports Podcast. These are people that I'd love listening to on most days. Like a cricket player has his off days, I am guessing they had theirs. I clearly did not agree with their line of thinking If you are asking, Ab Nass ne kya bola, let me first summarise that Double Standards: Nasser argued that the ICC lacks consistency. He asked: "If India said our government does not want us to go... would the ICC have been so firm and say 'bad luck, we're knocking you out'?" They imply India gets special treatment while Bangladesh gets punished. Praise for "Rebellion": Nasser explicitly stated, "I actually quite like Bangladesh sticking to their guns... and I quite like Pakistan sticking up for Bangladesh." He views this as necessary resistance against the "politics" dominating the game. Financial Bullying: They acknowledged the Indian argument ("We generate the money"), but countered that "with power comes responsibility," arguing that India is actively diminishing other cricket nations. Ok, having heard this. What seems wrong about this? Let me talk further on this. Phir Se, The "False Equivalence" of Security The Argument: Nasser compares Bangladesh refusing to tour India with India refusing to tour Pakistan. This is a false equivalence. India’s refusal to tour Pakistan is backed by decades of documented security threats and the fact that major international teams refused to tour Pakistan for ten years (2009–2019) due to terrorism. That has not happened in India ever in the last 30-32 years. The last I remember a team doing that was Pak in 1991(Wills Cup) and 1993 (Hero Cup) In contrast, the ICC’s independent security experts assessed the threat level in India for Bangladesh and found it safe. Bangladesh’s refusal was a diplomatic stance, not a genuine security necessity, despite India rocking the boat with the Fiz incident. The ICC cannot treat a "political boycott" (Bangladesh) the same as a "verified security threat" (India regarding Pakistan). Yeh dono same nahi hain. 2. Economic Reality vs. Bias The Argument: They claim the ICC is biased because they wouldn't "knock out" India. Yaar, ye bias ki baat bahi hain;, it's existential reality. India generates roughly 80-90% of global cricket revenue. A World Cup without Bangladesh is unfortunate but financially survivable. A World Cup without India would bankrupt the ICC and, by extension, cut funding for smaller nations (including the West Indies and associate nations). The ICC isn't "favoring" India; they are protecting the financial engine that subsidizes the rest of the world. Also, if you remember even for the Feb-March 2025 Champions Trophy, India had had a consistent stance from 2024 that they are not willing to play in Pakistan. They did not drop a bomb a month before the tournament like Pakistan and Bangladesh have done in the T20 World Cup 2026. India honoured their part, played the match, did not mess with tournament revenue guarantees to ICC England are just sore that they are not the financial engine or nerve centre. All they have for primacy argument is that they have the MCC that drafts the laws. Nothing else on the economic forefront, which makes them a leader. Today it makes it cool to get the Pak and Bangladeshi fan base for a few brownie points on X, for speaking against India/BCCI. Nas and Athers are trying to milk a few singles here, when no one is watching. 3. The "Protective" Nature of the IPL Decision The Argument: They frame the release of Mustafizur Rahman as a punitive/political move by the BCCI. Given the volatile atmosphere and the reports of violence against minorities in Bangladesh, the BCCI could argue they could not guarantee Mustafizur's safety from potential protestors or isolated incidents in India. Releasing him could be viewed as a protective measure to de-escalate tension, rather than a malicious political sanction. Keeping him in India during such a diplomatic crisis would have been a higher security risk, given that the IPL is the world's biggest revenue generating event. It has seen protests in Chennai over Sri Lankan players in a squad for a political party's preference of treatment to Sri Lankan Tamil's. While such a move could have been avoided, the IPL did what it needed to do, to reduce unwanted negative talk with escalating tensions in Bangladesh and India. 4. Selective Solidarity (The Pakistan Boycott) The Argument: Nasser praises Pakistan's "solidarity." This is where I go, 'Dei, Yeppudu ra ipdi solraan' . If PCB were truly acting on principle or solidarity, they would boycott the entire tournament. By choosing to play all other matches but forfeit only the game against India, they are proving that their decision is a political stunt rather than a moral stand. You cannot claim to be "sticking up for cricket" while selectively politicizing the sport's biggest fixture. They are also doing that knowing that they make another half of what is cricket's most prized rivalry, so they feel they can extract their share of the flesh, by doing all these pull-out tactics, despite being beggars. India is playing Ind-Pak contests in neutral venues, as a means to fund international cricket and Asian Cricket. One India-Pak match a year, can make other boards and associates meet their end I have seen many comments highlight that "Equality in law applies to equals." You cannot treat the primary stakeholder (India) identically to smaller stakeholders when the survival of the ecosystem depends on the former. There is a reason England (6.89%) draw more money out of the ICC revenue pool than say Pakistan (5.75%) or Bangladesh (4.4%) or Zimbabwe (2.9%). Would England be okay, sacrificing their revenue so that Zimbabwe and Bangladesh prosper? Sure, you paint BCCI as the villain, but would you be willing to forego your money to be distributed to the rest equally (2.9%), so that the game can grow? Also going back to the Fizz thing, as far as I know no Bangladeshi player has ever been attacked in India, whereas the Sri Lankan team was attacked in Pakistan. Therefore, Bangladesh's "security concern" holds less water than India's, and everyone could see through the politics that Pak and BD were playing. Wrong timing and stage to pull these unwanted stunts. And, if I were to move to another sport as a parallel. Dear Nas- you say you 'like Bangladesh sticking to their guns' against India. But where was this energy when Wimbledon banned every Russian/Belarussian player in 2022 purely due to government politics around Russia invading Ukraine? Or when the English FA supported banning Russian football teams from traveling to the UK? The UK set the precedent that 'Sport IS Politics' when national security or values are at stake. You cannot support banning Russians from London because of a war, but then call India 'bullies' for refusing to play Pakistan due to cross-border terrorism. That is the definition of a double standard, or playing down the wrong-line. I expect better from Nass and Athers. We respect you here in India. These points did not make sense guys. Looking forward to better content to listen on my commute back home.

Temba Bavuma reacts to head coach Shukri Conrad’s ‘grovel’ remark.

@Cricketracker He is also referring to Bumrah

You don't need all-rounders in test cricket unless they are too good in at least one of the departments. Guys like Nitish are neither there nor here. #IndVsSA

@cricketingview @rajendra1294 When both teams are brilliant we get a good contest. When one side is ordinary we get an Indian performance

@cricketingview Can't see the abuse part. And yes, both can be true. SA was brilliant and India poor

The problem is not losing. We are thrashed comprehensively #indvsSa

White washed. Not just defeated. #IndVsSA

Heads should roll. We play to win not to "prepare" for future or "nurture" young talent #indvsSa

Got to be the worst indian side in home conditions since 2000. #indvsSa

Drop crawley. Jamie should bat up the order.

@sagarpj9 Head scored a century today.

@Crickosaurus If they know how the ball bahave then why #ashes batsman not able play now?

They will be crying if 19 wickets fell on Day 1 in a Test match if it's in India, why is it ok that pacers can take 19wickets on day 1 but not spinner? #Ashes2025

@TheBarmyArmy ONE

Describe today in ONE word. #Ashes

@allnewsbaggies He doesn't have the skill against pace. I'm sure he will be dropped mid series

Zac Crawley the worst test opener in history ?? #ashes #Ashes2025