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In the late 1920s, England sent two concurrent teams to both NZ and West Indies and won both series. Should India try that out with one team for Asia Cup and another for bilateral series?

 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/when-england-played-two-simultaneous-test-matches

 

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In the 1929–30 season England went on two concurrent tours with one team going to New Zealand (who were granted Test status earlier that year) and the other to the West Indies. Despite sending two separate teams England won both tours beating New Zealand 1–0 and the West Indies 2–1.

 

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35 minutes ago, sage said:

In the late 1920s, England sent two concurrent teams to both NZ and West Indies and won both series. Should India try that out with one team for Asia Cup and another for bilateral series?

 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/when-england-played-two-simultaneous-test-matches

If it's allowed then we should do that more often. Strong team touring SENA, weak team touring Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe etc.

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1 hour ago, goose said:

pretty insulting to the nation that hosts the second side. tier system through the backdoor

you are thinking too much here. Nz are going to host an Aus ODI team without warner/smith/cumm/hazel in feb because their test team is simultaneously playing in SA

 

Covid messed up lot of schedules and all teams are trying to squeeze the missed series from last year somehow. Expect this trend to pick up in coming days

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2 minutes ago, Serpico said:

you are thinking too much here. Nz are going to host an Aus ODI team without warner/smith/cumm/hazel in feb because their test team is simultaneously playing in SA

 

Covid messed up lot of schedules and all teams are trying to squeeze the missed series from last year somehow. Expect this trend to pick up in coming days

 

very different from two test sides.

 

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The team thats gets the B team will not agree as broadcasters will not pay top dollar for a side without stars...

 

Aus were keen to ensure kohli plays loi for very reason.

 

I can understand keeping seperate teams for seperate formats. I.e a loi team has a different schedule as the test team. But you can play the same format at the same time.

 

Stars like kohli, bumrah, pant would make both teams. Rahane vihari pujara saha etc would be test only. I have long advocated separating the test team from loi. But you cannot get total seperation. 5 to 6 players will be common in both.

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, sage said:

In the late 1920s, England sent two concurrent teams to both NZ and West Indies and won both series. Should India try that out with one team for Asia Cup and another for bilateral series?

 

https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/when-england-played-two-simultaneous-test-matches

 

 

Ok let's not get cocky here shall we haha. We are damn good. Infact a great side but let's not go too far. 

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No.

 

Concurrent tours will be difficult for fans to follow. Fans will ultimately watch the more star studded games, the second team is going to get treated like India A team by both fans & the hosts. We already have an India A squad, so why to make this more complicated?

 

Injury management will be a nightmare. As we saw in the AUS tour injuries can strike at any time, so do we keep the replacements as reserves or do they get to play in the other team?

 

1920 is 100 yrs ago, this doesn't work now.

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