I respect Messi’s greatness, but I’m fully convinced he’s going goal‑less this World Cup and Argentina are getting grouped. He holds them back. Bookmark this and come back when it happens.

ISRAEL PUT ISRAEL FIRST. Truly admirable trait. No sacrifice is big enough when it comes to securing its own national interest. Read ISRAEL'S MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY's blunt message.

Mbappe is looking completely off colour.

This Germany Curacao game shows why the expanded World Cup is so embarrassing. Can you imagine a serious team losing 7-1 to Germany before all these new teams were let in?

COAL MINISTER G KISHAN REDDY FLAGS REPORTED DISAPPEARANCE OF 40 LAKH TONNES OF COAL, SEEKS URGENT PROBE INTO SCCL

He apparently thought the majority wouldn’t take out their frustration and historical grievances over 800 years of Muslim rule on common Muslims staying back in India, as if he was completely unaware of the true nature of majoritarian politics.

While much of the Muslim League leadership was captivated by immediate political gains and emotional appeals, he was the one who looked beyond the moment. He saw the consequences that would follow in the division of the nation. 3/7

I find the whole "Test cricket is the pinnacle" conversation almost sickening now. Every cricketer, former cricketer queues up to get a share of IPL riches as player, coach, commentator etc while parroting praises of Test cricket. It's like everyone trying to get a job in AI while saying how they feel civil engineering is the best. Like it's amusing they keep running clips of Kohli saying Test cricket is the best and its the format he enjoys the most. Then what stops Kohli from turning up for Delhi in Ranji or heck play a season of county cricket in England. Jimmy Anderson is still doing that. You turn up for a domestic T20 competition because that is where the most money and maximum fan engagement is. It should be perfectly acceptable to say that "Look Test cricket was great, but we all love T20 the most now since the concept of five day cricket is outdated and the fans don't like it as much" But no. Almost no one can say that without getting brickbats from the whole cricket establishment. No one (other than Lalit Modi) openly says that Test cricket is past it's prime and is just a niche sport now and will continue to be. Ashwin was talking in a panel discussion on cricinfo recently where he said we should force kids to play Test cricket. It was an absurd statement. I mean T20 is simply just a bigger job market now. A kid can grow up only playing T20 and make a living play Tamil Nadu Premier League even if he doesn't qualify for IPL ever. Can Test cricket give that kind of job market to a kid today? Would you force your kids to learn abacus if they are interested in learning python coding? The center of all this nonsense is the shadow of how cricket is still "gentleman's game". It is just an unwritten law in the old boys club that runs the game that everyone who picks a bat needs to pay homage to the holy spirit of cricket. The spirit that dictates what cricket ought to be like even when it is far separated from the reality of its existence. Cricket is not the only game that has evolved. Of course cricket is unique in having different formats of the same sport. But tennis also changed because the racquets became superior and players became muscular and the serve and volley game of the bygone era got extinct. Basketball changed when everyone started shooting 3-pointers in NBA. And while other sports also sometimes get nostalgic about the past, they don't bring arguments or discuss methods to turn back the clock at the expense of what people actually want to watch. And that is exactly the elitism in the Test cricket superiority argument that irks me the most. It goes against vox populi. People have spoken long back about the format they prefer. Yet the commentariat looks at empty cricket stands in Test matches and almost gets judgemental about cricket fans. As if you need to turn up to the stadium in a Test match and do your time in the stands just to be deemed worthy of being called a cricket fan. So yea. I almost secretly hope Sooryavanshi actually never plays Test cricket. Just to piss off Test supremacists. Quietly becomes bigger celeb than Jordan and Kohli combined playing only T20. And then as he wears that highest crown in sport, he has the authority and honesty to for once state the truth. That the gospel of Test cricket is an elitist lie. That Test cricket isn't supreme anymore. And you know what, the world is a better place because of that coz it the will of the people made it happen.

An overweight time traveler went to ancient Rome and realized he wore historically incorrect clothes for the trip. He went to a toga shop to purchase new clothes. He looked around the shop and saw there were no togas big enough to fit him. He went to the counter and asked the clerk, “Do you have XL togas?” The clerk replied, “Of course. But why do you need so many?”