Thank you so much for sharing this, I now found it too. I was looking for PSL on gap day. Nonetheless I was looking for Multan Sultan march for betting. I will place my bet on MS since they are unbeaten so far, wish me luck. Who.else is here betting on MS?

Following previous year's practices, are we making a betting pool for the IPL this year too? Usually, the participants and funds of the pool collection start a month before the start of the tournament but i don't see any such announcement on this thread yet. Though i didn't participate in previous years, but perhaps i could take part in it this year.  

And this brings up a question, You've got Pakistani selectors are not being able to identify the talent of a player like Imran Tahir, isn't there any kind of problem in the selection board?

I know I am a nobody just guessing things based on facts but this is actually very true isn't it?

A man who could have had a really bright and beautiful career started his career at the age of 30 and that's absolutely shameful.

I have also done some search about this Imran Tahir and have few very interesting facts that while his very early days in cricket he meet with Intikhab Alam a legendary spinner and coach for Pakistan and after having few sessions he gives him tip that he must leave this game cricket because he has never been a good bowler but his addiction and love for this game was not allowing him for this, and he plays few years in domestic level in Pakistan and then shift to England where he has not good response then he shifts to South Africa and has chance which was late, but he still achieved the best bowler rank in ODI and T20 which is really great achievement from this guy but sadly in test matches his start was really nightmare as he played against Australia and conceded nearly 260+ otherwise his career was good but best thing with his hard work and addiction he achieved really great milestones in his life.

This issue of nepotism is present in all of the South Asian boards and there is no quick fix solution. Even in the Indian team, useless players like Hard dick Pandya were retained in the squad for many years, despite not contributing either with the bat or with the ball. And in the end, promising youngsters like Venkatesh Iyer and T Natarajan finds themselves out of the team. Even from Bangladesh, I have heard about similar stories. But SENA nations are more professional when it comes to selection. Their selection polices are very unbiased. 

A competitive match is all we expect. The Sri Lankan team has drastically improved in the past few months. Could this be a challenge for Australia? It's no secret that Australia can be very dangerous. There will be challenges in beating the current world T20 champion team at home. However, Australia lost its last four T20 series.

Match resumed after it was interrupted by rain. In 14 overs Australia were 106 for loss of 4 wickets, star performer so far is Ben McDermott who is not out on 53 runs (40 balls). Sri Lanka is not in good form these days and it will be interesting to see how they will perform in this T20 series in Australia.

Aus vs SL match result was very much expected as Aus recently won T20 WC followed by 4-0 Ashes win. Aus gave target of 149 which was very much chasable but in reply SL were never in the game they lost wickets regularly.  Hazlewood got 4 wickets but Adam Zampa was man of the match for taking 3 top order wickets. 

Just like Imran Tahir a lot of young talents are absolutely uprooted at a very young age, just by telling them that they will never be good enough.

This absolutely kills their confidence to even think about chasing their dream. But hats off to Imran Tahir for believing in himself and doing almost everything to chase his dream and I think we all can agree that he was really successful doing it. Easily one of the greatest leg-spin bowlers of all time.

I agree nepotism is big problem but not in team, instead its in management as far as Indian cricket is concern. So i think you're mixing nepotism with favoritism.

Guy like Pandya comes from very humble background and had virtually zero backing when he started his career. I don't like his personality at all when it comes to discipline, attitude etc but i can't point finger on him as far as nepotism is concern.

I have never seen nepotism when selectors select the National team and i admire this quality of BCCI because sometime local management neglect this very attitude when selecting Ranji, club team etc.

Venky and Nattu are talented players but i can't blame selectors because in recent time Indian bench strength is getting bigger. Its nice headache for cricket loving country but tough on selectors and they are bound to make mistake sometimes. Nattu was injured btw (surgery i suppose).

If nepotism is there like you mentioned then where are Arjun Tendulkar, Rohan Gavaskar, Binny etc?