I think Mike Trout gets more than Rodgers, at least, and maybe LeBron, too. He's so young. He's by far the best player in baseball now, and there's no reason to think that he won't be one of the best players in baseball for the next 15 years. Nobody else can compete with that.

The difference is talent pool. Cricket was still very much an upper-class sport in Bradman's time; the sport was not far removed from the memory of Harold Larwood, to provide an obvious example. Bradman was playing against the best of the elite, and against (almost entirely) white competition. Compare that to the way…

Bradman also played against a much lower standard of competition than Tendulkar.

As it happens, I am not an imam, but interpretations vary. The lack of any central authority is again relevant here, so what it comes down to is what you feel is appropriate. In my experience, what people I know have done has been dependent on the duration of the trip; if you have to travel for three or four days,…

I'm not sure where the confusion between countries lies. Before the DR Congo was Zaïre, it was the Belgian Congo, as distinguished from the French Congo (today the Republic of the Congo) and the Portuguese Congo (today part of Angola).

In 2022, Ramadan will be in April. It won't be an issue during the World Cup again for another three decades.

Oh, thanks, I hadn't realized that was an option.

Is there any particular reason to think Hazard or Pogba would be affected? Based on a look at their Wikipedia pages, there doesn't seem to be anything to indicate that they might be Muslims.