deathmonger

Yes. And Bengal is even less Muslim than Assam.

TVK-AIADMK should join NDA

Good. This can be later used to have international series in parallel thus freeing up a greater chunk of the calendar for IPL.

Tennis I don't know but hockey, cricket, wrestling, badminton, shooting, boxing, archery, squash we will be very very good.

Bhai, me to budhape me bistar pe soke pura mazaa lunga. Next 20 years me bhi changes aayenge though.

Japan was referring to Asian Games but yeah. I'd say the biggest thing for us is to reach 10k pci, 0.8 HDI. Improvement is exponential at that point as there is no horrible poverty/malnutrition. Should be sometime in the early 2040s. Countries eventually stop growing and we should catch up with China in living standards at a point (like Koreans did with Japanese). Of course that will take many decades but I do envisage a time where we are at current East European standards while China is at current West European. Again this is sometime in the 2050s/60s at earliest. Let's see. Mazaa aayega. I think once we "crack" a sport there will be a deluge in Olympic medals (similar to all the cricket trophies in the last few years - men's/womens's). Shooting, wrestling are the closest we are to it. Think we will get minimum 3 golds each from both these by 2036. Plus addition of cricket and compound archery of course helps.

Yup, both are world class in their sports which we aren't (minus cricket). Asian Games should be doable. China I'm saying is because they are aging and facing population decline but yeah far far later in the future. Japan/Korea much easier.

On that note the Asian Games team can be insane even if you are not taking regulars in any format Suryavanshi Arya Prabhsimran Parag ... ... Mayank Yadav Bishnoi If you take guys from the test/odi teams not in the first T20 team than Jaiswal, Jurel, Sundar etc too.

Don't think going below 4. The gap will grow and grow. China is a big dog but Korea/Japan are aging and their population is declining. Should ideally overtake them with our population and economic growth by 2040s. China is for the far future post mid century when both countries are rich but China is older and has like 500-600 million less people. Like I always say - performance is a byproduct of income. Let's come back to it in September.

Ye to ho jayaega. Last time bhi hua tha. Goal should be to eventually get to no 2 by say 2040 and then no 1 in the future.

Thing is all of these have declined massively over the last 30 years. India is a $3k pci country. Can't expect first world amenities at that level. All of those issues (corruption, cleanliness etc) are symptoms not a cause. As India becomes richer they will vanish (or at least become less - even first world countries have issues with corruption and rich and powerful running the show - Epstein Files is a case in point).

Red ball bhi ho jayega, @Gollum bhai. Tests require more maturity. These guys are good - just need to enter their late 20s-early 30s prime This is the last decade of competition. No one is matching up vs India in any format from the mid 2030s.

Better tbh. Don't think like Aussies it will end. More apt comparison would be USA in basketball. Like I have said before - A cricket crazy country of 1.4 billion (and growing) should dominate the sport like crazy. Only bottleneck has been poverty. And now as that is going away, India is realizing its potential. Of course, there are decades of growth left so team will keep on getting better and better. And I disagree previous generation was bad. They prolly had the GOAT Indian red ball team from 2015-2021 (still stuttering along till 2024) with the best home record ever plus away series wins in Aus (twice), a draw in Eng and SA. But India has become better now. Last 6 u19 WCs India has lost 3 matches and those were the 16, 20, 24 finals. Each batch is producing 2-3 good players. Now those batches are linking up and achieving maturity. By the early 2030s you will have the likes of a prime Pant, Jaiswal, Gill, Sundar etc playing together along with the likes of Suryavanshi.

Get Vaibhav in for the Afg series

US can but then also China becomes too big for them to handle if India doesn't develop.