Why can’t we have Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Abhishek Sharma as India’s opening pair for the ODI World Cup?

Cricket vs Baseball Debate from an Indian who moved to USA: I grew up in India and excelled at cricket. Even today, I could reasonably say I am in the top 1% of cricketers worldwide. And I have known since I was a child that cricket is a ridiculously easy game—especially batting. I played field hockey and soccer too, and even back then I could feel the difference. Cricket simply did not demand the same level of continuous athleticism, movement skill, coordination, or decision-making those sports demanded. Then I came to the United States and got my first real shock. I attended one of my son's fifth-grade basketball practices. The coach had a whole language of coded plays. He would call out a word, and these little kids had to instantly recognize the play, move into formation, coordinate with four other players, read what was developing, and execute the timing correctly while the entire situation kept changing. I was stunned. I already thought cricket was easy. That practice forced me to move it even farther down the totem pole. The amount of strategy, spatial awareness, coordination, timing, and collective movement being demanded of fifth graders was beyond what I had ever experienced in cricket. Then came baseball. My son became a pitcher. He threw hard, but then I watched other sixth graders absolutely firing the ball. Some of these kids were generating velocities that would look impressive among much older cricket players—and doing it while baseball demanded very tight accuracy. Then you watched the hitters deal with that speed. Another shock. Cricket moved farther down again. And here is what makes this uncomfortable for me to say: cricket is probably my best skill. There is nothing else athletically that I have ever been better at. So this is not someone from the outside mocking the game. I love cricket. But let me tell you: compared with what many other sports demand from the human body and nervous system, cricket is child's play. It is ridiculously easy. Give a genuinely high-level athlete from another sport enough exposure to cricket, and I think many of them would become extremely good at it.

England head coach Brendon McCullum after recent defeats to Pakistan and Sri Lanka 🗣️

England need Pakistan to do them a favour against Sri Lanka, before taking care of business themselves 👀 It’s not over just yet… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Shoaib Akhtar is saying . Ireland should get test status infront of Kevin o Brien.

Playing XI for Third Dafabet Test vs Australia 🚨 #TheProteas skipper, Temba Bavuma, confirms the playing XI for tomorrow’s third and final Dafabet Test, with the series on the line at YesPlay Newlands. 🇿🇦 🔁 One change for #TheProteas sees Gerald Coetzee coming in for Anrich Nortje. #Unbreakable #SAvAUS