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Image Source: BCCI and ECB official websites. Test match is arguable the toughest format of the game and one of the most interesting formats too. A lot of thought is given to the selection of athlete(s) for the Playing XI for a given Test Series and each Test Match, to be precise. If it is a five-matches series in England, the stakes are significantly higher than usual. We all are enthusiasts and fanatics of sports (in this case Cricket), and we can feel the difference when it comes down to playing a sport for 5-days and when the game itself resembles our day-to-day lives. Doesn’t it? You start fresh every day, with new and more exciting challenges (such as weather), new opportunities, new setbacks, new record-breaking performances. Irrelevant of the Nation or the Team you represent. Harsha Bhogle kind of sums it up quite nicely for us, “I like many things about Test Match Cricket. We go through difficult phases in life. Maybe, financially we are not that well-off. The fact that you p...

If we look at the current scenario for hosting a sporting event in any region of any country in any corner of the world, we will have a multi-layered structure of things to be taken care of from a healthcare point of view. I feel the COVID-19 pandemic is the most politicized healthcare disaster to try and create a monopoly-like situation for the global economies. This is because some neighboring countries who also tend to be communist from the very core, cannot accept the fact that any other country can have a positive impact in terms of development to be an industrial powerhouse, hence it was necessary to create some distractions. Seems to be political? Sure it does in some ways. This is based on some facts and a few fascinating things that we can think about from what happened with Rugby last year. Japan hosted the 9th edition of the Rugby World Cup in September 2019, and it was clear that they raised the bar of organizing sports events to a new level for others to catch-up. In Jul...