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The reason why UAE is regarded as safe is because they have a vaccination rate of above 50%, and the number of new reported cases are very low. Apart from the UAE, England is another cricket playing nation which has achieved more than 50% vaccination rate. But I don't think that the ECB and the BCCI will be able to reach an amicable revenue sharing agreement between them for the T20 World Cup. The advantage in conducting the tournament in Emirates such as Sharjah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi is that there are no taxes in that country. The ICC needs to pay for just logistics and labor costs.

It is just our expectations that the situation would improve by October, last year i had the same feeling when everything went downhill and i was expecting the world to be back to normal in a few months and we now almost over one and half years and yet some of the countries are struggling with the second wave of virus and people are dying in the streets.

If the tournament can be conducted in the UAE safely so be it, we need some sort of sporting events to fall back and place some bets and hopefully we will see the World Cup as scheduled.

The situation may improve by October. You may be right. But I am afraid that it may not improve to a degree so that biosecure bubbles won't be required. Also, I don't think that fans will be allowed in to the stadiums. Under these circumstances, it will be better to move the tournament to the United Arab Emirates, because I heard that a majority of the population there have been vaccinated against CoVID 19. And the ICC will benefit from low tax rate as well (actually zero taxes).

It is a serious thing to think, i have seen the new coverage like people are cremating in huge numbers and they do not have any records on how many people are affected or hiding the facts about the number of death. It is really pathetic and the i have seen criticism as well about conducting a tournament when people are suffering for basic things like oxygen and medicine.

On the other hand it is the only way to entertain people when there are no other entertainment. The only question is if the IPL is making things worse in the situation in India and i highly doubt that anyone would say yes.

On the one hand the  foreign player are leaving for their country in middle of ipl and other hand netizens are criticizing cricket board for continuing IPL in this worse covid situation so it's quite possible that T20 World cup might happen in UAE.
I also think other countries Cricket Board will be quite unhappy if T20 World Cup going to happen in India.

Already netizen criticizes on the ongoing IPL, but The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will continue the popular franchises tournament any how. However, event like T20 World Cup won't take place in India with current scenario. T20 World Cup is in October November and I believe the situation would be in control till then. Meanwhile, the proposal of backup venue necessary. But, BCCI still look forward for playing in India.

There are rumors that the T20 World Cup will be shifted to Dubai, if the COVID 19 situation doesn't improve in India. I believe that this is a good move. I would even say that the ongoing IPL should have shifted to the UAE, as many of the players were forced to leave the tournament in between due to issues with bio-bubble. The tournament is scheduled to begin on October, so the ICC needs to make a decision very soon.

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This is completely wrong, follow the medical journal and all the health experts were warning about a worst situation as the virus is mutating and precautions should be taken from last September and you are now saying that they did not knew about wave, please do not sugar coat things and say it was an unexpected wave.

Even in the case of Oxygen shortage the medical experts warned about hospitals not prepared about the wave and hence the center allotted Oxygen plants from and do you have any idea how much they installed out of the proposed 162 plants just a mere 33 and now the center is lying along with his PR agency that the state failed when they did not even provide any money as all the commissioning was done by Center and after the first wave if you think that they did not expect that i cannot accept that lie.

I am sorry to sway away from the topic but the situation when you see people dying because of the inefficiencies of political pimps or so called leaders and when we cryptocurrency investors create topics every month whether they are going to ban cryptocurrency trading, i feel sick about the control they have over us when we pay them to look after everything and all they want is control over us. This is ridiculous when tax money is given to Serum institute to develop the vaccine and now asking the state to purchase at different price levels when people are dying on a daily basis.

Please do not support these inefficiencies and tell that we never expected this wave, this wave was expected but the stupid reality is that all the Center wants was to boast about how they are helping out other countries by sending vaccines but those stupids never vaccinated their own citizens and only giving limited amount of vaccine doze to every state.

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Cricket players or anyone donating do that in your state fund and not in the center funds because i have not seen federalism upheld by the right wing party as they are not treating the other states especially Non BJP rules states as equal and anyone following the vaccination drive will understand that in broad day light.

I do understand your situation and these stupid politicians should stop eating from the graveyard when people are dying around you. If they are not doing their job make sure they will not be in power next time. We the people should have the leash and not the other way around and sadly we only get that opportunity during election period which is once every 4 to 5 years.

It was a noble initiative from Sachin, but my opinion is that it is the duty of the government to provide healthcare and it should not depend on any of the celebrities. These people are already paying 43% of their income as tax, and my opinion is that it will be wrong to overburden them even more. Only around 2% of the Indian population pays any income tax and they have the massive burden to support the remaining 98%. Now Indians should make sure that this 2% is not pushed to the brink. IMO, the rich farmers who earn millions in income, but doesn't pay any income tax (farmers are exempted from income tax in India) should contribute a part of their income. For cricketers, it should be optional.

Well the same situation is our country where no one is confident if the donation they make will be used in the right way or will it be eaten up by the corrupt Politian's ?
Even then this should not refrain us from doing good deeds and help for the others because if the government do not deliver our donations to the right persons, then the sin would be on the government shoulders and they will have to answer it on the judgement day.

No point in indulging blame game. Actually no one expected this wave at this point of time, and the neighboring countries are also in similar situation. Vaccination was the key, but it was delayed due to the embargo on the export of raw materials imposed by the United States. On top of that, red tape and bureaucracy is making matters worse in many parts of India. But everyone needs to appreciate the step from Sachin. And not to forget the contributions from Brett Lee and Pat Cummins, as they have donated at a time of extreme need.

I am not confident whether these donations will be used carefully and for the right purpose, i am well aware that PM fund received more than enough money during the first wave of the virus and it is not even included to have transparency about all the funds they received nor they released what they did with the money they got and if common sense prevails from the social media campaign about people donating in the PM fund for Covid they raised enough money to give the vaccine free for everyone and for the Oxygen and yet they did nothing and now they are scrambling at the last moment and many people died and now they are collecting donations yet again and what will be the end result.

The inefficiency and the lack of foresight of the bureaucrats are exposed by this wave. They never took precautions even with repeated warnings from health experts about the possibility of further waves creating havoc if they are not prepared and the PM office was busy chest pumping about being the vaccine capital of the world while they are not even giving proper does of their own citizens and now everyone works together when people are dying in streets.

A very noble initiative. With the help of legends like Sachin Tendulkar, India's bad times will not last long. Moreover, if legends like Dhoni, Shewag, Yuvraj come forward in collaboration, it will be easier for the Indian government to work to prevent Covid 19 infection.

Sachin Tendulkar donates INR 10 million to help India fight Covid-19 crisis.
This is a big initiative and it will also encourage more legends contribute to this noble cause. There is a "Mission Oxygen" campaign in India in which this money will be used to procure oxygen concentrators.

The media has constantly targeted Murali Vijay and his wife (Nikita) over this. But from what I heard, the real story is much different. Dinesh Karthik was born in to an orthodox Tamil Brahmin family and he was forced to marry the daughter of his father's friend as soon as he turned 21 (in 2007). It was an arranged marriage and Karthik felt no attraction towards Nikita and they never had any physical relationship. His affair with Dipika Pallikal started in 2011, and around the same time Murali Vijay started having an affair with Nikita. But his parents were against divorcing Nikita, and also issues were created when Dipika's parent's asked Karthik to convert. However when it was revealed that Nikita was pregnant with Vijay's child, they finally allowed to divorce.

I still don't think that he got anything in return from the BJP. After the court said that his life ban was illegal, the BCCI still refused to remove it. On the other hand, the BCCI took a much more relaxed approach with ex-players such as Mohammad Azharuddin, who were proved to have indulged in corruption. Now see the irony here. BCCI, which is under the control of the BJP refused to help Sreesanth despite his life ban removed by the court, but took a more helpful approach towards Azharuddin who contested elections for the opposition INC. My take on this is very simple. Sreesanth might have thought that the BCCI would help him if he joins BJP. But they saw no reason to help him and on the other hand further delayed the lifting of his ban despite the ruling by the court.

The only problem with this argument is that Dinesh karthik have a much bigger problem with Murali Vijay who eloped with his wife and i do not know whether he played any role in his career and i do not think Dinesh Karthik will have a much bigger problem with anyone else than Murali Vijay.


Sreesanth joined BJP to get back in the team and if not for his involvement with the right wing party he would not have made to the Kerala team even in 2020 and it is too late to make a comeback in the much competitive Indian team or in the IPL.

There are a lot of rumors floating around regarding to how Sreesanth got trapped. According to Sreesanth himself, he had a spat with Dinesh Karthik and the conspiracy to destroy his career was then hatched by N Srinivasan (to whom Dinesh Karthik is very close). I am not a big fan of N Srinivasan. That guy almost destroyed the global outreach of cricket and many of the smaller test playing nations when he was the ICC chairman. He turned cricket from a sport to some sort of organized business and controlled Indian cricket like a mafia chief.

Sreesanth got the life ban when his career was at the peak. Now he is 38 years old and there is no point in getting the ban removed. And he was wrong to get involved politically. He joined the BJP in 2016 hoping that they would help him with the ban, but they never helped him and just made use of his fame for the elections. The ban was removed only in 2020 when his career was almost finished.

These accusations spoiled the career of Sreesanth and he had to join the BJP to get the opportunity to return to cricket and he is back in the Kerala team and even played in the recently concluded domestic series but he was not that effective as he went for runs in almost all the matches even though he looks fit as he was into body building in the last few years and i do not see him returning in the IPL as well.

SRH needs to find some players who could win matches for them in the middle order, till the last few overs i thought SRH would win the match but then they messed up. RCB looks like they finally got a well settled team with the inclusion of Glenn Maxwell and Washington Sundar.

This match will be a close one SRH needs 34 runs in 18 balls, they still have wickets in hand and anything can happen. I had put my money on RCB but it looks like SRH might change the game result. A couple of sixes can change the match, at the moment RCB still looks like they can win this match.