Is cricket all about winning cups or enjoying it?

Do you guys still moan about losing the world Cup. Or have you moved on. I think this was our best chance to win it but we lost our chance. I also think we will not be able to win major ICC tournament in future by seeing current team status. What are your thoughts?

Seriously, we won a world cup after 14 years, and a T20 at that, which happens frequently. We have the richest cricket association in the world, pouring infinite resources to train people. We're picking the best of the best from a population of 1.4B where each kid wants to be a cricketer. Even after that, it's not like our competition is the entire world, only 10 countries play in the "world" cup, and half of them are novices. Now keeping all this in mind, is it that big of an achievement that we're celebrating like crazy. PM, CM are inviting everyone, we're organising a rally where millions of people are showing up, every one seems to be in a frenzy. Personally I think iwenare overdoing n a way. Anyways don't kill me for this opinion.

Don't you feel there is inbred, slow simmering rivalry among bowlers of our national team Not healthy competition, pull each other down rivalry It was evident in WC final, Shami, Siraj and Bumrah were not putting efforts in saving runs for each other. They were very close to being highest wicket takers Now today's match Mukesh had the same look. What he couldn't get in first super over, Ravi Bishnoi made it look like piece of cake in next I feel we aren't being the team, that feel like Cup winners. Remember Dhoni's era?

You have TV, you have subscription you paid for Why would you pay 500 to watch with noisy strangers

Is FIRE the latest obsession because people have no other passion in life? Is it because they have aced school, college, High package(due to recent surge in salaries) and now don't know what is the next mission in life? One argument is that they want freedom to do great things, but as I see the drive to do great things comes when people are put in constraints and difficulties. Not when they have freedom..

From someone in their tech team, got to know very curious insights. CrickPe is built on Solidity smart contracts that automatically enforce performance bonuses for cricketers. However, the underlying logic is enforced on an ELO based system with log-normal rewards. Essentially, if a cricketer rewards are: Reward = Expected(reward) +- log(performance). Their ELO is similarly adjusted on a match by match basis. Also, Insider reveal is that, VC community is keen on investing and Ashneer is considering raising funds but has made clear that he is willing to liquidate only till he has majority stake in the venture, although aiming at closer to ~75%. Also, they are experimenting with NFTs linked to rewards that give you insider access to pre-game locker room access with your favourite teams, flying you out to international matches abroad, etc. This will also be tradeable in-app. They are apparently looking for Blockchain Devs/interns for that. Finally, the biggest news. They’ve apparently launched a bid to get a fan-experience zone specific to CrickPe in the stadiums during IPL. The plan is to sell these tickets at a higher cost. Fans who watch games from this zone get to play a special variant where the highest scorer is given their reward from the MOTM.

I genuinely don’t feel like we are hosting a cricket World Cup in our country this year. In 2011, the hype and craze around us hosting was way higher. Stadiums were better filled them for other games apart from Indian games, while I saw at least 5-10% empty seats even for the India v Aus game even though everything was apparently sold out in minutes on BMS? Is it a PR/marketing problem or is the hype from the sport just not great anymore?

Hotstar manged 6-7cr users. Jio or sports 18 group can't manage even 2cr users. they should poach hotstar team or get AWS services... There should be penalty for ruining experience of consumers.