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Damn. But bcci would never so this. Richest boaes but most corrupt. Well we need a separate body like NCAA for India but for that bcci support would be needed given they monopolise the marker.

Too many lady boys there maybe. Just kidding. Love Singapore and Malaysia. Do you think commie regime would help India If we had one?

Strong calves. Doesn't have to be big calves. You need short torso and long legs. Btw one thing Chinese have is big calves lmao.

You don't need big calves to be a good fighter or wrestler or to play most sports tbh. Rugby and a few others being an exception.

@Lone Wolf This benchoth lowda is the reason for vegetarianism. Before him we used to consume plenty of meat. The 5th-century CE Tamil scholar Valluvar, in his Tirukkural, taught ahimsa and moral vegetarianism as personal virtues. The plaque in this statue of Valluvar at an animal sanctuary at Tiruvallur describes the Kural's teachings on ahimsa and non-killing, summing them up with the definition of veganism.

Wouldn't say late 30s. Probably 27 28 for imran but 30 plus definitely for Waqar. Wasim would be 27 to 29 as well. But.....imran and Waqar would have broke down and quit by the time they reached 50 tests. Wasim was tougher than these 2. Will last till the end.

Pci? Hdi you mean or?

Yea hockey has been spectacular. Apparently lot of losses in bilaterals in the last 2 years was cause we were resting key players and trying out young guns. But in proper games we stepped up. Dint beat aus in 50 years or something in Olympics and now that's done too.

In Australia such athletes get sponsored by AIS. Everything is free including accommodation food training and coaching. India need something similar here otherwise how can we expect our athletes to even want to attempt these particular events in track and field. There needs to be an incentive. This is where having atoeast 17 k as average gdp would help. In India after school most kids do IIT jee training or some other tuition classes that take an extra 2 hours per day post school. Then they will be tired. Will be late already. Can't play sport. Need to support their family etc. And then pretty much the day is gone by. Life repeats. Also Indian education system is to blame partly. Sure there are many bright minds but we should move on from rote learning systems. Maybe start teaching basic proofs and basic real analysis in high school or first year of uni to foster growth in tech and engineering. Our education system needs to be more about application rigour and practicality rather than memorisation and rote learning.

She is a lovely elegant lady. Very strong and mentally tough lady. She actually came to Australia once and I have seen her in an event. Humble too. We can certainly do well in such events but I am just understanding why we are struggling in those 4 5 track and field events. 100 m I can understand but mid distance running, long jump high jump etc we should be unearthing talents tbh.

Yea pretty much. Also add badminton and t tennis. Track and field we can focus on discus too as it's somewhat similar to javelin. Transferable skills. But high jump long jump pole vault 100 m 200 m and mid distance running is where we are lacking. I am certain we can find people with the right physical traits but I am not sure if we have the right infrastructure in place to excel in thos events yet. Will take Time. We need like a IIT for sport. Indian institute of sport where all top tier athletes get proper training for track and field events.

I meant for the other mainstream sports where we do well generally speaking. Amongst the top 5 to top 10. But yes we have some way to go for athletics 100 m 200 and mid distance running. Also high Jump and pole vault. We need foreign coaches to foster development in those areas of track and field. A dedicated state or 2 that focuses purely on such events. For those 4/5 track and field events we are lacking the ability to nurture and develop talent. Anju bobby George should who fnished 3rd in high jump for a world championship ship event should have inspired young athletes. Just wasn't meant to be at the time cause we did severely lack funding. Now we need to start targeting such events and as you said, our athletes should aim to meet olymlic standards.

I mean despite us having best talents and dominating bilaterals for last 10 years it took us till 2024 to win a icc title since about 2013. It's mental fragility that's stopping us.

Also to win medals consistently you need to master some of the rich niche sports. Rich sports include swimming diving, cycling, bmx somewhat, artistic swimming.

Also we need a high tech doping program. And yes all top sporting nations do it. About time we do it too.