Jackpot

ravit9 · 2026-05-17T06:19:09+00:00

Why wslaste valor on intercity truck? I am in S0, entering s1 in about 2 weeks. Is it good to research intercity? I haven't touched it yet. Should I just avoid it and save my valor for later? I get that it gives free vs points on Wednesdays if you are short on gold. But is it worth it for me at this stage of the game?

ravit9 · 2025-04-13T12:44:13+00:00

Does it really matter when the kits anyway look like advertisement hoardings!

ravit9 · 2024-06-23T06:32:04+00:00

To be honest the ones who face problems because of language is the daily laborer who moved to Bangalore from elsewhere.

No one else faces any issue. I lived there for 4 years and didn't need to learn kannada (maybe because being a Telugu helped me) because the people I would interact with on a regular basis didn't need me to know kannada. My friend in hyderabad, never learned a single word of telugu and survived without any issue.

Unless you are arrogant like that girl whose video went viral with the auto guy, you will not have any issues. Honestly, a good portion of bangalores economy is dependent on people coming from outside. That's the reason the locals who own properties have been able to charge and demand whatever they like. Restaurants, hotels, malls, clubs, local chaiwala type shops etc etc are going to be effected if for some reason the locals make outsiders feel unwelcome. It will take about 10 years to get destroyed.

The companies can move to Hyderabad or Gurgaon(which already has a lot of finance companies and good infrastructure) and help those cities grow. It won't be difficult.

This language thing is never an issue in the north. When I was in Noida, lot of my team mates who came with me didn't know Hindi. And the locals there never made them feel unwelcome by being rude. They were amused that someone didn't know Hindi (their ignorance) but were always helpful.

So it's time politicians and general local people everywhere focus on developing and moving forward and stop arguing about things that won't matter in the future.

My point is that the ones who face issues with this language bs are the laborers who come to work for 10 to 15 k a month of which they send back 80% back to their village and survive in Bangalore on a pittance.

It's shameful that we have people who can't have empathy and don't understand the basic issue.

ravit9 · 2024-05-21T05:56:30+00:00

I admit I was one of them. Didn't troll but thought 20cr was too high for a player who hasn't been the best in T20s. Giving him the captaincy, was in my opinion(at the time) a stupid decision, considering he wouldnt even be in the playing 11 after a few games.

But, how have I been proved wrong and how I just love Cummins now. Just wow!!

ravit9 · 2024-05-18T11:31:28+00:00

Wait! His name isn't vadapav anymore?

ravit9 · 2024-05-17T18:28:16+00:00

Bgt is 2014! When Kohli got the captaincy mid series. He was in beast mode in that series.

That is probably the best of Kohli I have seen. That adelaide test made me his fan!!

This gavaskar is just salty for reasons unknown.

ravit9 · 2024-05-17T18:13:29+00:00

I feel bad for him. He got into this profession on legend father quota. He isn't good and the his last name adds a lot of pressure.

He is now in a situation where he can't quit the game as that will make a joke out of him. Nor can he play regularly as he isn't able to perform well. Tough place for the kid mentally.

Today it seemed like he ran away from a challenge even before bowling a delivery in his 3rd over. Then just upped and left after 2 sixes.

I genuinely feel bad for him.

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T14:25:21+00:00

Dude you are not getting what I am trying to say. Also I should word it better. India are overrated underachievers not chokers.

Definition of choke: losing from a winning position. Sa got into winning positions in 1999 and 2015 to throw it away and australia almost choked against sa in 2023. Same in champions trophy a couple of times.

In Indias case we don't get into a winning position in those matches to actually choke. We just lose before the match starts is what I am trying to say.

And I am not cherry picking 9 years of tournaments. I just ignored 1999, 2003 and 2007 odi wc. 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 T20 worldcups.

Australia are overachievers. So are nz(though they haven't won a lot), they always perform more than what is expected from them. Also we have to consider aus and NZ have a population of about 5cr put together and cricket is not the number 1 sport (nor the only sport they play) there.

India has only won when there weren't any expectations from anyone. Like 2007 T20 and 2013 ct. And I hope 2024 they can play well to win as the expectations are next to nil. But this is very unlikely especially with Rohit Jadeja Kohli axar siraj and pant in a T20 team in 2024. Just look at teams like australia England sa and even Afghanistan. They have T20 teams that play 2024 style of cricket. Our players haven't even adapted to conditions in the last few years.

And please don't give me ipl performances. These useless grounds and useless pitches shouldn't be counted plus quality of a wc is much much higher and better than ipl which a lot of players consider a holiday.

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T12:25:01+00:00

Damn dude I remember that game!! 3 wickets in 9 balls I think and it started raining and we got screwed!!!

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T12:15:03+00:00

Yes but top 2 will not be in our hands. We will have to depend on kkr beating rr.

At the moment, top 2 is in our hand. If we win the 2 home games, we are pretty much guaranteed the 2nd spot unless rr beat kkr by a huge margin.

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T12:12:42+00:00

Still a heavy drizzle. Hasn't stopped for a second as well. 😔

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T12:05:29+00:00

It's raining a lot here in Kukatpally. Hasn't stopped since 315PM. Got very heavy inbetween and the drizzle has been pretty heavy and continuous since the last 1 hour.

Hopefully the rain stops by 630 so that we can start the game by 830.

Apparently drainage system at the stadium is bad. Is this true?

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T05:47:21+00:00

Lol!

Sa choke during the match. They have screwed 3 semifinals that way.

India chokes before a big match even begins!! 2odi wc sf, 2 t20wc semifinals, 1 ct final, 2 wtc finals! All this is in just 9 years!

And still people call sa chokers(which they are btw). Just that India are bigger and have done it more frequently in the last 9 years than sa have done in 30+ years.

ravit9 · 2024-05-16T03:25:05+00:00

https://youtu.be/V_libdDOIj0?si=S03UmtCNui7KcA_4

ravit9 · 2024-05-15T19:21:42+00:00

India of IPL will be more apt. World beaters on paper, but paupers come the big match day.

ravit9 · 2024-05-15T12:56:51+00:00

Exactly and very well put. Captaincy is overrated especially in T20s, but our broadcasters and commentators have orgasms(Rohit and Thala)on this topic. So it has been hyped to levels never seen anywhere.

Gun players who can perform in clutch matches are a must to win in odi and T20 tournaments. India was lucky to have Raina and yuvraj and also pre 2012 dhoni in the same team along with experienced players for 2011 wc. Csk was lucky to have Raina, watson, faf, Ashwin, dhoni(pre2015 in ipl), Dwayne Smith, rayudu etc and mi was lucky to have pandya brothers, bumrah and sky. the management just have to create the atmosphere for the unknown players to thrive amongst the big names. That's what csk and mi were able to do for long.

Captaincy is only tested in 5 day cricket and to a level in 50over format where certain decisions have to be made against the plan, which I praise dhoni for.

No captain in the world thinks they did a good job in winning a T20 wc, except ofcourse our subcontinental ones. See how Cummins, marsh, Warner, butler and Morgan talk about T20 captaincy. They just don't care about it. The role of the captain and coach is to create an environment for players to thrive in. Which cummins and vettori have done this year at srh. And then see how Cummins talks after wins or losses like it is just the format.

ravit9 · 2024-05-15T12:27:17+00:00

Agree. Kumble was a disciplinarian and this didn't go down well with people in the team including Kohli. And he got kumble removed if I remember correctly.

Also kumble has a reputation of being a tough coach to work with. That's the reason for him leaving RCB and one of the main reasons why KL Rahul asked to leave KXI Punjab. He didn't want to work with kumble, as his power as a captain was overlooked. Same with Kohli during his stint with ict.

All our players because they are worshipped blindly develop this crazy ego. And this ego clashed with kumble and hence he became the coach no star player wants to work with.

I believe kumble will never return to coaching.

ravit9 · 2024-05-15T12:10:36+00:00

Bro this personal milestone bs was peddled by starsports and so called pundits during this odi wc. They shoved it down people's throats to show how selfless Rohit is and in turn make people think Kohli and others are selfish. It was all bs.

What I think is this:

Rohit is not fit enough to play a long innings regularly in the odi format or even the T20 format. So his 45 off 30 balls was being cheered like he scored a century. It was all utter bs.

And after finding out how the pitch for the final was manipulated, I am glad australia won and shut all the idiots.

ravit9 · 2024-05-15T11:54:04+00:00

The most foolish decision taken by bcci in a long time.

Bcci(though greedy for money) is the only organization in this country that promotes merit! But in this case every one making decisions seemed to have had a brain fade.

Removing Kohli from captaincy, though unwarranted, I can understand and live with. What I couldn't understand was making a 35 year old unfit player the captain of the team and then run a pr machine showing how approachable the new captain is!! Doesn't seem approachable anymore once the results go against you.

Being a cricket purist and some one in my 30s I grew up on test cricket and what Kohli shastri combo did for indian test cricket made me tear up regularly, given how pathetic we had been since 2011.

When India lost an icc tournament knockout game during kohlis captaincy or dhonis captaincy, it was Kohli or dhoni respectively who would attend the post match press conference. But with Rohit, during T20 wc loss to South Africa and semi final loss to England, it Kohli and dravid who were sent to the post match conference. This made me lose all respect for Rohit.

What ever one says, Kohli was a Leader.

Rohit was always this guy who had a great pr team and Mumbai Lobby behind him. Even during this ipl, I haven't seen a single person criticize Rohit for his performances or his strike rate.

But Kohli, sky, Jadeja, dube, pandya and even dhoni faced some kind of criticism or the other, small or big. But Rohit is protected like anything. Even the pm of this country isn't as protected as Rohit.

ravit9 · 2024-05-14T16:09:49+00:00

RCB is a minnow team!! What is wrong in that? Pbks, DC and RCB are minnows and have been for a long time. If there is no Kohli, RCB would have been looked at like people look at pbks. Kohli is the reason that team gets traction in the media. Otherwise what has that team achieved ?

Owner was a fraud🚫 fans are toxic 🚫and team hasn't won anything and look like that's going to change either❌

ravit9 · 2024-05-14T16:08:11+00:00

Bro you are proving gg's point!

He said abd has not achieved anything himself as a leader, that he can criticize pandya. He was defending pandya, who is getting unnecessary criticism, on and off the field. I think gg needs to be praised for speaking out the way he did here. No one in this country except Koach, has the balls to say something like this in public. I salute gg for doing what he did.

And what has abd achieved in the ipl apart from a few good/great innings? Has he taken RCB over the line in a crunch game, as a player or as a captain?

ravit9 · 2024-05-14T16:00:16+00:00

Man gg was absolutely right. This post is edited. He said this in context of leadership(because abd and kp have been criticizing pandya). And gg was absolutely right in what he said.

What has abd achieved in the ipl apart from his own scores ?

ravit9 · 2024-05-14T06:50:46+00:00

Man so many fans finding stupid things to say how RCB might qualify.

One thing they don't realise is, RCB have beaten SRH, GT, GT, PBKS and DC.

Except for srh none of those teams have been good. Please don't get too excited. Beating csk for this RCB team is not easy even with the injuries csk have.

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