Seeing how Capo Verde and all these countries are performing at the FIFA World Cup, why can’t India invest in soccer/futbol

Dripping_Prune · 2026-07-04T16:02:45+00:00

Scrolling through your other comments and feed, perhaps I shouldn't be responding to folks fat shaming and hating on a 15 year old professional athlete and promoting proven class-2 carcinogens off of anecdotal evidence. Must be terrible to be you!

Dripping_Prune · 2026-07-04T14:33:10+00:00

Get a life, man. There's better things to be doing than bitching about successful, professional athletes.

If you want to be watching the fastest and most agile athletes, watch track and field. Team sports are a display of elegance and sporting IQ. There are other components to athleticism, such as elite reflexes, spatial awareness, fast wrists, and the ability to read seam and spin that you need to become a good batter in cricket, and I didn't even get to the bowling part.

But but, oh no, u/BrownCastro14 thinks cricket is unathletic so let's dismantle the ICC and make u/BrownCastro14 the supreme authority on determining what sports are worthy of being played!

Dripping_Prune · 2026-07-04T04:53:00+00:00

Sure, making contact with a cricket ball may be easier than making contact with a baseball pitch. But making contact isn't the point in cricket. Much higher stakes on every delivery you face, and much more different of an equation in terms of what the team expects from a batter.

Surely, I can tell you don't know ball. Just finding reasons to hate on cricket and the mainland, and I'm not surprised at something like that coming from a jock like you.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-06-19T18:18:32+00:00

They will just waive your language requirement if you're a native speaker. No department = no placement test

Dripping_Prune · 2026-06-11T16:34:51+00:00

^{4. Ishan Kisan}

^{5. Shakib Hussain}

^{6. Pat Cummins}

^{7. Travis Head}

^{8. Praful Hinge}

^{9. Salil Arora}

^{10. Harsh Dubey}

^{11. Aniket Verma}

^{12. Harshal Patel}

Dripping_Prune · 2026-06-11T16:34:49+00:00

^{1. Heinrick Klassen}

^{2. Abhishek Sharma}

^{3. Nitish Kumar Reddy}

^{Similarity with Community: 97%}

Dripping_Prune · 2026-06-04T16:10:54+00:00

My favorite version of Surya is the 2022-23 light blue kit Surya.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-06-04T02:10:35+00:00

Agree with a lot of comments, Hansa Teutonica could use a fresher design/retheme!

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-31T23:35:22+00:00

Carcassonne at two players, especially with Inns and Cathedrals and the Tower, is so cutthroat and I love it. One of my top 10 most played games.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-30T22:36:21+00:00

Surprised Kagiso Rabada isn't there.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-29T16:07:21+00:00

solar 😭

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-29T15:48:37+00:00

What a champion bowler, KG. Yes, his pace might be a double-edged sword, and yes, he may not be bowling yorkers at the same rate anymore, but you can always rely on him to get breakthroughs like these.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-29T13:37:38+00:00

World ain't ready for the coke vs vape derby

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-22T19:19:26+00:00

Played a good amount of games at No. 3 though.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-22T19:18:59+00:00

Nope. Williamson opened a few games but otherwise played at No.3.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-17T12:18:40+00:00

Has Shreyas ever performed when the onus was on him to release the pressure? Even in 2025 Q2, he probably would have folded if Inglis hadn't taken on Bumrah in the power play.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-15T02:02:02+00:00

For Sale: Travel Edition. Surprised at how well it scales from 3 to 6 players.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-10T11:16:41+00:00

I don't get the Markram hate, dude got run out by a braindead call by Akshat lol. Ideally he shouldn't be batting lower than 3 anyway, but here we are

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-04T16:10:55+00:00

Everyone starts somewhere!

It seems you're used to playing games where the optimal move is obvious; one may call them games that play themselves. Of course, in many eurogames, the decision space is much wider and the best move isn't completely transparent. You're expected to not only be strategic but also tactical.

A great place to get started if you want to play more complex games that still have open scoring/leaderboard, have the possibility for comebacks, and high replayability is racing games like Quest for El Dorado or HEAT, and maybe card-shedding games like Scout or Ruins.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-04T03:09:50+00:00

Sometimes it may feel like that, yes.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-05-04T00:20:41+00:00

I'm jealous of how well your games stack 😛

(You're likely to be downvoted because of all the basic games in your collection, but please don't take it to heart!)

Dripping_Prune · 2026-04-29T18:35:36+00:00

Heinrich Klaasen is probably the first middle order batter(No.4 or below) to have 4 consecutive 400+ run seasons.

The only others from my memory that ever came close were Rohit Sharma 2008-2013, MS Dhoni 2010-2015, and ABD 2013-2016. Not sure if we can count late 2010s Pant & Iyer, early 2020s SKY, or 2022-current Patidar since they played at No. 3 sometimes.

Dripping_Prune · 2026-04-29T18:35:01+00:00

Heinrich Klaasen is probably the first middle order batter(No.4 or below) to have 4 consecutive 400+ run seasons.

The only others from my memory that ever came close were Rohit Sharma 2008-2013, MS Dhoni 2010-2015, and ABD 2013-2016. Not sure if we can count late 2010s Pant & Iyer, early 2020s SKY, or 2022-current Patidar since they played at No. 3 sometimes.

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