So how many who said Asia cup is meaningless, is enjoying this snoozefest?

[philcric]

1 hour ago, UnknownGenius said:

Asia Cup was definitely entertaining especially to see egg on all the posters faces here who said Pakistani would beat India 3-0 with that middle order. The winning mentalilty players just keep winning despite the haters

 

Yeah Rohit, Dhawan, Bumrah and Kuldeep were awesome. They knew how to win.

 

Middle order still dodgy though. Rayudu was okay, Karthik didn't have much to do, and Dhoni was really poor.

[kosingh]

Why schedule tests against WI if you can schedule Asia Cup?

Why schedule Asia Cup if you can schedule IPL?

[Singh bling]

2 hours ago, Lala said:

Don't hype much. They saw your team in 70s 80s same like you are seeing now. They had the same feeling those days when giant windies saw little India as dwarfs. They are still giants in t20s. 

Where are players like Gavaskar and Kapil in this Windies?

[Lala]

40 minutes ago, Singh bling said:

Where are players like Gavaskar and Kapil in this Windies?

LOL your mediocre gavaskar or average Kapil are nowhere close to compare with great players like sir Viv Richard's, sobbers, loyyd, marshal, grinich, Haynes, etc 

[Singh bling]

7 hours ago, Lala said:

LOL your mediocre gavaskar or average Kapil are nowhere close to compare with great players like sir Viv Richard's, sobbers, loyyd, marshal, grinich, Haynes, etc 

A word from your ex player now PM

 

New Delhi: Not undermining Sachin Tendulkar's rich contribution to the game of cricket, Pakistani cricketing legend-turned politician Imran Khanyesterday said he always rates Sunil Gavaskarabove any batsman in the world.

http://post.jagran.com/search/imran-khan-on-sunil-gavaskar

[anish2tweet]

Bashing a hapless bunch of club level cricketers in 3 days. This WI series has to be worst advertisement for cricket. Wonder how many who said Asia cup is meaningless and Kohli must rest for the test series, is actually enjoying it? I heard only 10% tickets got sold
 
When will BCCI realize that its not the same WI team anymore but yet calling these pathetic losers for series almost every 2 year. Pretty sure, in Asia conditions even SL, BD or even Afg team would give more fight.
 
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Knowing BCCI, they would think twice now in calling minnows for tests to India. Revenue is paramount for them

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[bhakum20]

Asia cup was actually better than expected, made for some good viewing even though I didn’t care about it initially.

 

WI series is as expected

[Lala]

35 minutes ago, Singh bling said:

A word from your ex player now PM

 

New Delhi: Not undermining Sachin Tendulkar's rich contribution to the game of cricket, Pakistani cricketing legend-turned politician Imran Khanyesterday said he always rates Sunil Gavaskarabove any batsman in the world.

http://post.jagran.com/search/imran-khan-on-sunil-gavaskar

Those are politicts word my dear. Don't take it seriously. Everybody knows WI ex players (ledgendary players) are far more superior than gavaskar and dev. 

[jf1gp_1]

13 hours ago, speedheat said:

Are you sure?? Its we or format of the game is such that it made life difficult for these mediocre batsman so much so that it eventually turned in to a thriller!!

Play same teams on same venue  but in different format, a testmatch and see a one sided game.

You mean same set of India XI vs Afghan or BD XI in a different format or a proper indian test side ?

[speedheat]

27 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

You mean same set of India XI vs Afghan or BD XI in a different format or a proper indian test side ?

Same set of 11 vs afghan in a test match ,.pretty sure match won't that interesting

[Zero_Unit]

haven't watched a single ball being bowled nor did u watch the highlights. test cricket is snooze fest

[jf1gp_1]

15 minutes ago, speedheat said:

Same set of 11 vs afghan in a test match ,.pretty sure match won't that interesting

Yes but t20 would be interesting. 

[Nikhil_cric]

Asia Cup was still meaningless. I barely watched it. What exactly did we learn about this Indian team? Sure we thrashed Pakistan like they were hapless minnows and that's always fun but in the greater scheme of things those wins were hollow. The snail paced middle order batting ruined everything. 

 

Windies may not be the most competitive test team away but im not sure why it's any less meaningful than Asia Cup. If all of Mayank ,Shaw and siraj have been tried out by the end of the series, that would be more useful than that useless tournament. 

[Singh bling]

1 hour ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Asia Cup was still meaningless. I barely watched it. What exactly did we learn about this Indian team? Sure we thrashed Pakistan like they were hapless minnows and that's always fun but in the greater scheme of things those wins were hollow. The snail paced middle order batting ruined everything. 

 

Windies may not be the most competitive test team away but im not sure why it's any less meaningful than Asia Cup. If all of Mayank ,Shaw and siraj have been tried out by the end of the series, that would be more useful than that useless tournament. 

Just watch media , how they covered Asia cup and how they covered this series.You will realise what is meaningless?

[GautiMaan]

I love ODIs and I want a lineup to match the glorious batting lineup of the early part of this decades where we would chase 300+ without breaking a sweat

[zen]

Any tournament / series is defined by the competitive level in it 

 

Ind vs SA T20s could be more interesting than Asia Cup

 

Asia Cup was made interesting by AFG and BD, along with the fact that Ind went in with non existent middle order .... WI series will be interesting because of youngsters from both sides 

[Shunya]

Good that people are not watching these pakau games... its such a waste of time and money to go there and watch amateurs like these play poor cricket in 40C temperature... LOIs is the only viable option in India, no matter what ppl say... should focus on improving it further...

 

[speedheat]

I am all for globalization of the game but teams like srilanka, west indies, Zimbabwe should be strictly called for 1 test match, 1 odi, 1 t20 type series only!!

[express bowling]

On Saturday, October 06, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Lala said:

Don't hype much. They saw your team in 70s 80s same like you are seeing now. They had the same feeling those days when giant windies saw little India as dwarfs.  

 

You don't have any idea about cricket history.   

 

India won 2 test series against the West Indies in the 1970s ...  which includes a series win IN the West Indies.

 

We also won the World Cup in 1983 away from home ... defeating the mighty West Indies twice in that tournament including the final.

 

India won the 50 over all nations Benson and Hedges Cup in 1985 IN Australia, defeating Pakistan in the final.  The mighty West Indies could not win it.

 

India also won 2 test series IN England between 1971 and 1986.

 

Our win-loss ratio in tests was impressive in the 1970s ... and we once won two test matches in a test series IN Australia.

 

The spin quartet of Chandra, Bedi, Prasanna and Venkat were highly revered because they were instrumental in winning quite a few test matches outside Asia.  Gavaskar, Amarnath and Vishwanath formed a formidable batting line-up as they all had good averages both outside Asia and in Asia. And Kapil was one of the best fast medium swing bowlers of that era along with being a destructive batsman.

Edited October 8, 2018 by express bowling

[Nikhil_cric]

2 hours ago, Singh bling said:

Just watch media , how they covered Asia cup and how they covered this series.You will realise what is meaningless?

Just because something gets more viewership of sells more or is more popular does not make it more meaningful imo.