Good at practice games and useless bilateral matches?

[Texan]

Our recent record:

 

Beat Aus (eventual World champions) in practice game before World T20

Beat England (eventual Semi finalists) in practice game before World T20

Beat NZ (finalists) in game right after finals 

 

But then we lost the two matches that counted most. Seems like the Kohli Shastri combo were responsible for a choking mentality within the team.

[Texan]

We beat 3 of 4 semi finalists just before or just after the World T20

[nevada]

Any team which wins the world cup should be made to play a series against India in India. If they lose, then the cup should be snatched away from them and awarded to India! 

[Texan]

5 minutes ago, nevada said:

Any team which wins the world cup should be made to play a series against India in India. If they lose, then the cup should be snatched away from them and awarded to India! 

 

You sure we will win if that pressure of the Cup is hanging on our team's heads?

[Texan]

ICC should institute a new trophy for winning the most useless bilateral and practice games. We would be top frontrunners for the championship. 

[SK_IH]

50 minutes ago, nevada said:

Any team which wins the world cup should be made to play a series against India in India. If they lose, then the cup should be snatched away from them and awarded to India! 

[Norman]

1 hour ago, Texan said:

ICC should institute a new trophy for winning the most useless bilateral and practice games. We would be top frontrunners for the championship. 

 

If winning useless bilaterals gets us a trophy, then they are not really useless are they? 

 

In that case we'll start choking in bilaterals too  

 

We were all set to choke a test series against England at home when an ICC final was on the line. Had to make pehalvaani akhaada wickets to save ourselves. 

[cricketpitch]

If we lose the "useless" bilaterals we might not even make it to the main event without playing qualifiers to have chance. India need to work on mental strength and look at what is causing them to choke in the main events. No need to lose or not perform well in bilaterals. You should win everything you play and also win ICC events, thats what Australia did during their peak. No series is useless, if they are no one will play them.

[Vilander]

4 hours ago, Texan said:

Our recent record:

 

Beat Aus (eventual World champions) in practice game before World T20

Beat England (eventual Semi finalists) in practice game before World T20

Beat NZ (finalists) in game right after finals 

 

But then we lost the two matches that counted most. Seems like the Kohli Shastri combo were responsible for a choking mentality within the team.

 

 

No it means couple of things mostly. 

 

Toss, Dew 

[Texan]

2 hours ago, Norman said:

 

If winning useless bilaterals gets us a trophy, then they are not really useless are they? 

 

In that case we'll start choking in bilaterals too  

 

We were all set to choke a test series against England at home when an ICC final was on the line. Had to make pehalvaani akhaada wickets to save ourselves. 

ICC should keep it a top secret and only declare a winner when India is leading