Roberto Martinez is like Obama. Unbelievable orator and speaker, and conceptually is a fantastic coach/president. In reality, his policies and tactics have ruined countries and generations.
The 8 teams to qualify for the round of 32 if the group stages were to end today would be:
Netherlands (F)
Brazil (C)
Belgium (G)
Portugal (K)
Qatar (B)
Spain (H)
Czechia (A)
Ecuador (E)
Eliminated:
Panama (L)
Türkiye (D)
Senegal (I)
Jordan (J)
Just caught the highlights of England's game. They won. And they looked good. Which only means that they will be burned to the ground when they get knocked out in the Quarters.
Not only does Joe Root have more Test runs than the rest of England's XI combined, he also has the most Test wickets in the side. The previous player to achieve this double was Martin Crowe in 1994 🤯
Norway's Erling Haaland is the first player to score twice on their World Cup debut since...
Elijah Just for New Zealand on Monday, who was the first player to achieve the feat since...
Yasin Ayari for Sweden on Sunday, who was the the first to do so since...
Folarin Balogun for the U.S. on Friday.
"If you're consciously looking for startup ideas, it will make you too conservative. You'll lop off the outliers. Because the very best startup ideas tend to sound so lame, at first, that you'd reject them if you were consciously looking for startup ideas."
0 - Spain's Mikel Oyarzabal is the first player on record since 1966 to play the first 30 minutes of a FIFA World Cup match without touching the ball once.
Peripheral.
#F1
4 races in the next 6 weekends.
Kimi leads by 41 and 50 points against Lewis and George respectively. This season is slowly coming alive. Kimi still the fav, but it's too big of a gap too early.
28th Jun - Austria
5th Jul - Silverstone
19th Jul - Spa
26th Jul - Hungary
I want to experience as an Indian, what japan has been in recent years. Till 1992, they did not make a single World Cup appearance, and since then, they havent missed one. They are a world top 20 team and named a 26 man squad entirely from players playing in Europe. They moved their 2092 plan to win the world cup forward to 2050. Us when?
What exactly is a more shocking/hard to believe stat for you ?
• James Faulkner scoring more ODI centuries against India, than the likes of Steve Waugh and Brian Lara.
• Kris Srikkanth having more 5w hauls than Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar in ODIs.
• Bangladesh being the only Asian team to have won a test match in New Zealand since 2012.
• Sri Lanka not winning a test match in either of Australia or India, till date.
• Sir Viv Richards not scoring an ODI century in West Indies.
Fab 4’s Test records when Martin Crowe labelled them that ➡️ after he did so:
🇮🇳 Kohli 1855 at 39.5 ➡️ 7375 at 49.2
🏴 Root 1732 at 50.9 ➡️ 12220 at 50.7
🇦🇺 Smith 1361 at 40.0 ➡️ 9402 at 59.5
🇳🇿 Kane 2377 at 40.3 ➡️ 7138 at 61.0
If you had bet $100 on the Knicks at the lowest point of each of their 4 Finals comeback wins and rolled the winnings into the next game…
$100 would have turned into roughly $24.4 million.
Game 1: Down 16
Game 2: Down 18
Game 4: Down 29
Game 5: Down 15
That’s how ridiculous this Finals run was.
The Knicks didn’t just win a championship. They pulled off a sequence of comebacks that may never be replicated. 🏆🍾💰