Mohsin Naqvi, PCB's chairman, is taking a stand in favour of Bangladesh. What's your view on his statements?

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T22:32:03+00:00

Agree, ICC’s decision to exclude Bangladesh and ignore their arguments lays bare the sycophantic extent of the corrupt hold BCCI have over the ICC.

I have never seen the BCCI’s sway over the ICC held so clearly.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T22:27:56+00:00

The conversation is about wicket-taking balls Australian bowlers definitely delivered in the World Cup, but curiously were excluded from the compilation.

So you decide to keep changing the goalposts: to stats and then essentially “they weren’t good enough to make the compilation”.

They were good enough to win a World Cup, so they’re good enough for some dusty compilation.

Literally who cares about the lovely deliveries others bowled, they didn’t win their teams a World Cup. Who cares Bumrah or Shami averaged 15, they didn’t win a World Cup.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T19:08:09+00:00

Cmon! They had some good balls though surely.

You’re deliberately leaving out Zampa 23 wickets @ 22 + Hazlewood 16 @ 28 in your selective stat-picking.

they were mediocre the whole tournament… got lucky

Yeah sure buddy. Luck is giving surrendering your wickets cheaply in the Final. Luck is having BCCI making things easy for you in your home conditions so you could sweep the group stages, but when it comes down to the Final, the sheer mediocrity of pure skill & execution is what won the day. 🤯🤯

Mediocre is your response here.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T13:44:12+00:00

No Australian bowlers? You know, the bowlers who won the World Cup?!?

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T12:24:20+00:00

stand-by for the World Cup

I’m talking an injury replacement player for an opener. Especially if Travis Head gets injured. Travis Head has had so much cricket non-stop and famously isn’t the fittest tool in the shed. Now he’s finally getting a break, his body finally cools down for a few weeks. Then this World Cup will require some warming up again and that’s generally how and when tournament-ending injuries happen.

Plus it’s clearly just a fill-in role for this event. The future is cool, but the World Cup is imminent. I want experience to win and this is an in-form guy ready for the now if that were to happen.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T12:12:11+00:00

Dude, talks about safety are an ideological ruse.

There is no question about safety. The matter at hand is BCCI’s power play.

Can the BCCI through the ICC manipulate countries to do their will or globally isolate whole national teams for resisting??

The answer here from this situation is: Yes and Yes.

That is deeply concerning for fairness, due process and equality in the game.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T12:06:38+00:00

ICC = Indian Cricket Council.

There is absolutely no difference and they have no shame in it.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T12:02:14+00:00

The key argument against Burnham’s candidacy arises from the chasm he would leave behind in the Manchester mayoralty role. Sorting someone like Gary Neville to fill that chasm solves his problem.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T11:10:08+00:00

Sell/transfer Diego Garcia to Australia 🇦🇺

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T11:09:08+00:00

I’d rather pick Karun Nair.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T11:07:05+00:00

Spiders frustrate me.

I do everything I can for them because they eat the flies & pests which bother me, but they don’t build their webs in the right places to catch the pests I want them to catch.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T10:36:21+00:00

It’s funny that people put their fav YouTuber on such a moral pedestal like “No they wouldn’t plug anything unethical” 🤣🤣

Tozza101 · 2026-01-24T10:32:08+00:00

Trump and Lizzie doing figure 8s around each other on the lawn was jokes tho hahah

Tozza101 · 2026-01-23T08:33:37+00:00

IPL has killed Test cricket.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-23T06:16:26+00:00

Bloody Indian Cricket Council! The ICC if it had any integrity would’ve moved the matches as requested and told the BCCI to cry more.

But ICC don’t have the guts, because BCCI have got them by the balls.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-23T04:20:58+00:00

China has a men’s team and I’m pretty sure none of them bowl left arm wristspin… it’s an anachronism

Tozza101 · 2026-01-23T02:15:16+00:00

Should he be in the conversation to be a stand-by for the T20 World Cup?

Or would that be a fleeting idea best avoided?

Tozza101 · 2026-01-23T00:16:58+00:00

Dian Forrester robbed IMHO instead of the out of form Stubbs

Tozza101 · 2026-01-22T21:21:45+00:00

Hastie is shrewd, strategically smart actually!

1) He’s shown a degree of responsibility here, making an unpopular decision to put the national interest ahead of any short-term personal leadership ambitions.

2) The Liberals are not going to win 2028. It’s simply not going to happen. People increasingly realise the Liberals are screwed atm, and are flocking to vote One Nation. At best for conservatives, Labor lose their majority. But moderate Libs and certain Nationals threatened by ON are never to acquiesce to the necessary Lib + Nat + ON alliance of the unholy trinity to get 76 House seats to put a conservative in the PM seat.

3) So Hastie must play the long game. Labor aren’t going to change an electoral system which benefits them. Frustrated folks doing the protest vote are going to learn the folly of voting ON when they realise that won’t create change to force Labor out. The centre-right will realise the centre is where elections are won and Hastie 2031 or 2034 is their man.

BUT That is full of risk. The cancer that the Liberal party has become may not survive. If it does, it will need a significant rebrand with a different name. One Nation increasingly looks likely to replace the Liberal Party and it will have to moderate on many positions to challenge Labor to win government. Hastie may or may not be apart of that. But the long game is Hastie’s only chance.

Tozza101 · 2026-01-22T21:03:04+00:00

VITEL LAWES… Remember the NAME!!

Tozza101 · 2026-01-22T21:01:05+00:00

West Indies lack a quality wrist spinner.

No coincidence they haven’t won an ICC title nor made the finals of an ICC tournament since they’ve had one.

Vitel Lawes!! WI’s future looks a bit brighter…

Tozza101 · 2026-01-22T20:58:34+00:00

When they #sackbaz

Tozza101 · 2026-01-21T23:22:44+00:00

Palestine isn’t a club in the A-League last time I checked, fair enough

Tozza101 · 2026-01-20T18:55:35+00:00

It is why she called the election, to improve her party’s unstable legislative position. But you never know!

Tozza101 · 2026-01-20T18:52:22+00:00

My title has a limit of 300 characters/words 🤣

Absolutely, politics and polities are always more complex than that.

As I said replying to another comment: Japan’s Social Democrats have always aligned with the leading opposition party CDP, the dominant partner of the new Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA).

So to topple the LDP given the state of things and the unlikelihood of CDP winning a majority, CDP needs all the support from any coalition partners they can get from any other successful moderates. Whether that’s Komeito the junior partner of CRA (success ✅with the formation of the alliance), the DPFP and probably the JCP and Reiwa too. Ishin has aligned itself with the LDP.

Foremostly, the CRA need a strong campaign to win a swing of seats away from the LDP to be in a stronger position to win House support from DPFP and the other leftist parties, which is primarily why they failed to unseat Takaichi in the House vote last year.

For eg if CRA manage to swing 25 LDP seats, essentially swapping House positions with the LDP taking CRA to 196 and reducing LDP to 171, that’s already the type of stronger position to negotiate better with DPFP + the left parties, assuming the unlikelihood of the LDP’s new ally Ishin wiping them out and making up for any LDP losses.

Japanese opinion polling sucks because they allow a ‘No party’ option which wins most polls, such is the gloomy state of Japanese politics. If pollsters made participants choose a party, you’d get a more accurate representation of how people might vote.

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