BCCI announced their squad for the WTC finals against NZ and England tour.
https://twitter.com/BCCI/status/1390673651368792065
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^^ No one is going to war, unless another terrorist attack happens in India. Full fledged war is out of the equation from any war game strategy anyway so don't worry.
BCCI announced their squad for the WTC finals against NZ and England tour.
https://twitter.com/BCCI/status/1390673651368792065
BCCI announced their squad for the WTC finals against NZ and England tour.
https://twitter.com/BCCI/status/1390673651368792065
Covid is not the main reason why the Asia Cup is delayed. It just that india refuses to play in Pakistan for Asia cup. Due to political issues, India cannot come to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup and ICC wouldn't like Asia Cup to be played without India.
I thought that this issue was resolved already. The BCCI and the ACC had a deal, under which India would visit Pakistan in case the Asia Cup is held there. But right now the BCCI is more focused on IPL and bilateral tours, and multi-team events may have to wait. Asia Cup was a prestige tournament 10-15 years ago. Now it has lost its prominence. And the ACC itself has lost much of its power. IMO, rather than pampering to the BCCI, they should have gone ahead with the tournament.
Do you have any link to this contract between BCCI and the ACC or any article link confirming this news ?
As long as Narendra Modi is the president for India, don't expect these two nations players (Pak & Ind) to visit each other country.
On a serious note, You can expect a war between these two countries and not a cricket match.
Covid is not the main reason why the Asia Cup is delayed. It just that india refuses to play in Pakistan for Asia cup. Due to political issues, India cannot come to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup and ICC wouldn't like Asia Cup to be played without India.
I thought that this issue was resolved already. The BCCI and the ACC had a deal, under which India would visit Pakistan in case the Asia Cup is held there. But right now the BCCI is more focused on IPL and bilateral tours, and multi-team events may have to wait. Asia Cup was a prestige tournament 10-15 years ago. Now it has lost its prominence. And the ACC itself has lost much of its power. IMO, rather than pampering to the BCCI, they should have gone ahead with the tournament.
Covid is not the main reason why the Asia Cup is delayed. It just that india refuses to play in Pakistan for Asia cup. Due to political issues, India cannot come to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup and ICC wouldn't like Asia Cup to be played without India.
I thought that this issue was resolved already. The BCCI and the ACC had a deal, under which India would visit Pakistan in case the Asia Cup is held there. But right now the BCCI is more focused on IPL and bilateral tours, and multi-team events may have to wait. Asia Cup was a prestige tournament 10-15 years ago. Now it has lost its prominence. And the ACC itself has lost much of its power. IMO, rather than pampering to the BCCI, they should have gone ahead with the tournament.
@Sithara007 I wasn’t aware there was such a treaty between BCCI and ACC, and even under normal situations I doubt that team India would like to travel to Pakistan and play out there. Furthermore these tournaments are organised to earn revenues, and team India generates highest revenue so how will they go ahead without team India?.
Covid is not the main reason why the Asia Cup is delayed. It just that india refuses to play in Pakistan for Asia cup. Due to political issues, India cannot come to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup and ICC wouldn't like Asia Cup to be played without India.
I thought that this issue was resolved already. The BCCI and the ACC had a deal, under which India would visit Pakistan in case the Asia Cup is held there. But right now the BCCI is more focused on IPL and bilateral tours, and multi-team events may have to wait. Asia Cup was a prestige tournament 10-15 years ago. Now it has lost its prominence. And the ACC itself has lost much of its power. IMO, rather than pampering to the BCCI, they should have gone ahead with the tournament.
I wish if there was a series between Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka. All three of them are equal in terms of performance currently and we could see some exciting matches between the three teams.
Talking about these three teams, what happened to the Asia Cup? The last time we had that tournament was way back in 2018, in the United Arab Emirates. Another edition was scheduled to be held in 2020, but it was postponed due to COVID 19. Initially it was scheduled for June 2021, but from what I am hearing, it is again postponed and may not happen this year. Even the qualifier tournament hasn't completed as of yet. 10-15 years back, it used to be one of the most popular cricket tournaments.
Covid is not the main reason why the Asia Cup is delayed. It just that india refuses to play in Pakistan for Asia cup. Due to political issues, India cannot come to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup and ICC wouldn't like Asia Cup to be played without India.
Test series? Why would you want one, it takes 2-3 weeks for 2 match test series. You can imagine what would happen if 3 nations playing test cricket with each others back to back. For limited overs cricket we already have Asia cup, which getting delayed but its temporary.
It makes no sense to conduct a trilateral test series. Even if the teams play against each other only once, the entire series is going to take one and half months. On top of that, the revenue generation is going to me much lower when compared to T20 or ODI series. IMO, test series should be purely a bilateral affair and we already have the WTC to rank the teams in this format. Extended global tournaments are just not feasible with the longer format.
I was not expecting any great effort from the Bangladeshi batters but atleast they could have pretend to fight and not just simply roll over against the Sri Lankans. Anyway there was no importance of this series as its not the part of the WTC except some bilateral commitment between 2 boards and both the teams got the required match practice in these tough times.
I wish if there was a series between Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka. All three of them are equal in terms of performance currently and we could see some exciting matches between the three teams.
I wish if there was a series between Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka. All three of them are equal in terms of performance currently and we could see some exciting matches between the three teams.
Talking about these three teams, what happened to the Asia Cup? The last time we had that tournament was way back in 2018, in the United Arab Emirates. Another edition was scheduled to be held in 2020, but it was postponed due to COVID 19. Initially it was scheduled for June 2021, but from what I am hearing, it is again postponed and may not happen this year. Even the qualifier tournament hasn't completed as of yet. 10-15 years back, it used to be one of the most popular cricket tournaments.
I was not expecting any great effort from the Bangladeshi batters but atleast they could have pretend to fight and not just simply roll over against the Sri Lankans. Anyway there was no importance of this series as its not the part of the WTC except some bilateral commitment between 2 boards and both the teams got the required match practice in these tough times.
I wish if there was a series between Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka. All three of them are equal in terms of performance currently and we could see some exciting matches between the three teams.
Blaming the toss is useless excuse as no one controls the toss outcome, its 50-50 for both the teams and no one is going to get rid of toss benefit in home condition anytime soon, may be never. Everyone knew that batting is going to be tough in last 2 days so Bangladeshi batters needed to bat well during their 1st inning, unfortunately for them everyone failed.
Toss had hardly any impact on the outcome of the game. The pace bowlers received no support from the pitch and there wasn't much bounce or seam movement. The spinners also failed to get any sort of assistance from the pitch. Ideally the match would have ended in a draw, but the batting collapse from Bangladesh in the fourth innings gave the advantage to Sri Lanka and they were eventually able to win the match. The Bangladeshi batsmen looked like they were in a hurry to get back home.
I was not expecting any great effort from the Bangladeshi batters but atleast they could have pretend to fight and not just simply roll over against the Sri Lankans. Anyway there was no importance of this series as its not the part of the WTC except some bilateral commitment between 2 boards and both the teams got the required match practice in these tough times.
Sri Lankan team would loss in the same way if they didn't choose to bat first after winning the toss. There was huge difference between the pitch condition of first two days and last three days. Sri Lankan batsman was capable to make good runs on first innings while they struggled a lot in their second innings. And Bangladeshi batsman struggled in both innings. Agree with you, this series wasn't important but both team had a good practice. And we have seen incredible performance from few individual players. Overall, this series left me in bad taste. I guess I need to stick with watching test matches between the big 3 teams only.
I usually only watch certain high profile Test series including England Australia and if India tours to these countries because the matches are usually competitive but if you had the patience to watch all these matches then you are the hardcore fan as i am not having the patience to watch these long matches unless i am willing to place live bets 
.I don't think that any of us watch test matches continuously for 5 days. For my part, I watch for 10 or 20 minutes at a time, may be 2-3 times a day when good teams are playing (India, New Zealand, Australia and England, and may be West Indies as well). I usually avoid watching matches involving weaker teams such as Zimbabwe or Sri Lanka. During my student days, I had a lot of free time and could afford to watch five days on the trot. But that is not possible now, due to work commitments and family responsibilities.
Overall, this series left me in bad taste. I guess I need to stick with watching test matches between the big 3 teams only.
I usually only watch certain high profile Test series including England Australia and if India tours to these countries because the matches are usually competitive but if you had the patience to watch all these matches then you are the hardcore fan as i am not having the patience to watch these long matches unless i am willing to place live bets . Sri Lankan team would loss in the same way if they didn't choose to bat first after winning the toss. There was huge difference between the pitch condition of first two days and last three days. Sri Lankan batsman was capable to make good runs on first innings while they struggled a lot in their second innings. And Bangladeshi batsman struggled in both innings. Agree with you, this series wasn't important but both team had a good practice. And we have seen incredible performance from few individual players.
Well.. this is the problem. For both the teams, the players are not able to convert the individual performances to team victories. On multiple occasions during this series, we saw some of the batsmen scoring too slowly, when they had to declare the innings after scoring quick runs. These people care more about their own stats, rather than attaining a victory for the team. Overall, this series left me in bad taste. I guess I need to stick with watching test matches between the big 3 teams only.
I was not expecting any great effort from the Bangladeshi batters but atleast they could have pretend to fight and not just simply roll over against the Sri Lankans. Anyway there was no importance of this series as its not the part of the WTC except some bilateral commitment between 2 boards and both the teams got the required match practice in these tough times.
Sri Lankan team would loss in the same way if they didn't choose to bat first after winning the toss. There was huge difference between the pitch condition of first two days and last three days. Sri Lankan batsman was capable to make good runs on first innings while they struggled a lot in their second innings. And Bangladeshi batsman struggled in both innings. Agree with you, this series wasn't important but both team had a good practice. And we have seen incredible performance from few individual players. ~
Thunderstorms are forecasted for tomorrow at Kandy, so if Bangladesh bats sensibly tomorrow, then they will have a chance to draw this match. But they will have zero chance if 90 overs of play is possible tomorrow. Liton Das is batting along with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, and both are very good batsmen capable of surviving for 40-50 overs. Given the weather forecast for tomorrow, that should be enough to hold Sri Lanka to a draw.
Thunderstorms are forecasted for tomorrow at Kandy, so if Bangladesh bats sensibly tomorrow, then they will have a chance to draw this match. But they will have zero chance if 90 overs of play is possible tomorrow. Liton Das is batting along with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, and both are very good batsmen capable of surviving for 40-50 overs. Given the weather forecast for tomorrow, that should be enough to hold Sri Lanka to a draw.
Update: Bangladesh lost by 209 runs
Bangladesh as usual in the losing track. Bangladesh are a good team, however they need to improve in test side otherwise this thing will repeat again and again. Congratulations Praveen on 10 wickets haul on Test debut. Amazing young talent, and such promising performance should be carried out. Hope upcoming ODI series will be competitive.
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All they had to do was to survive another 40-50 overs and the weather would have done the rest. But they couldn't even survive the first session of the 5th day. All the five wickets gone in just 23 overs. And look who got the wickets. The inexperienced spinners Ramesh Mendis and Praveen Jayawickrama shared 9 wickets between them (the remaining wicket went to Dhananjaya de Silva). If Bangladesh perform like this, then soon they will end up like Zimbabwe.
I was not expecting any great effort from the Bangladeshi batters but atleast they could have pretend to fight and not just simply roll over against the Sri Lankans. Anyway there was no importance of this series as its not the part of the WTC except some bilateral commitment between 2 boards and both the teams got the required match practice in these tough times.
They have scored 177 runs before the match is delayed due to bad light. Although i am not watching this match, but i wish if somehow a miracle happens and Bangladesh does won this one. If they had batted a bit better, they would have been in a much better position.
Thunderstorms are forecasted for tomorrow at Kandy, so if Bangladesh bats sensibly tomorrow, then they will have a chance to draw this match. But they will have zero chance if 90 overs of play is possible tomorrow. Liton Das is batting along with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, and both are very good batsmen capable of surviving for 40-50 overs. Given the weather forecast for tomorrow, that should be enough to hold Sri Lanka to a draw.
Update: Bangladesh lost by 209 runs
Bangladesh as usual in the losing track. Bangladesh are a good team, however they need to improve in test side otherwise this thing will repeat again and again. Congratulations Praveen on 10 wickets haul on Test debut. Amazing young talent, and such promising performance should be carried out. Hope upcoming ODI series will be competitive.
They have scored 177 runs before the match is delayed due to bad light. Although i am not watching this match, but i wish if somehow a miracle happens and Bangladesh does won this one. If they had batted a bit better, they would have been in a much better position.
Thunderstorms are forecasted for tomorrow at Kandy, so if Bangladesh bats sensibly tomorrow, then they will have a chance to draw this match. But they will have zero chance if 90 overs of play is possible tomorrow. Liton Das is batting along with Mehidy Hasan Miraz, and both are very good batsmen capable of surviving for 40-50 overs. Given the weather forecast for tomorrow, that should be enough to hold Sri Lanka to a draw.
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