Austin 3:!6 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 So this was always an after thought tournament and considered insignificant in grand scheme of things. In Asia Cup 2014, India didn't send its regular Captain and rested one of its best white ball player Raina back then. The team was led by young captain Kohli Same in 2018 Asia cup when the entire focus was on the England tour. Indian team reluctantly traveled to UAE at the last minute resting its captain and best player Kohli. There were always talks about resting key players and testing bench strength in Asia Cup during yesteryears. But this seems to have change now from last Asia Cup. I see media hyping up this tournament as biggest event after world cup, players calling it as huge tournament and desperate to get fit prior to that, loads of discussion about team selection etc. etc. So what has changed and why suddenly Asia cup been hyped up so much? Is it just a marketing tactics by host broadcaster to earn more revenue? Is it bcoz we don't play Pakistan regularly and this tournament come across as a guarantee 2 match series? Or is it bcoz our previous teams were so strong that even without main players we were confident of winning. But now we know we need to pick absolutely best possible XI to win the cup? I just want to know the reasoning why once considered insignificant tournament is suddenly getting so much hype. tweaker 1 Link to comment
Frustrated Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Mainly becz of 2 reasons. 1) Asia Cup is being held in Pak and SL. WC (being held in india) will also hv similar pitches. So, team performance in this series is likely to reflect in WC as well. 2) WC is only 45 days away and it is also in the same format (50 over). So, this is the last chance to finalize the squad after having observed/analysed the performance of all players. Austin 3:!6 1 Link to comment
Austin 3:!6 Posted August 30 Author Share Posted August 30 33 minutes ago, Frustrated said: Mainly becz of 2 reasons. 1) Asia Cup is being held in Pak and SL. WC (being held in india) will also hv similar pitches. So, team performance in this series is likely to reflect in WC as well. 2) WC is only 45 days away and it is also in the same format (50 over). So, this is the last chance to finalize the squad after having observed/analysed the performance of all players. Asia Cup 2014 was just before WT20 though and both were played in Bangladesh Link to comment
Frustrated Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 19 minutes ago, Austin 3:!6 said: Asia Cup 2014 was just before WT20 though and both were played in Bangladesh Asia Cup 2014 was held in 50 over format and it was followed by WT20. There was a format difference. Hence, different set of players. (With few exceptions). Link to comment
Singh bling Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Is their any good international cricket left . India played their last two series without sending their best players. Link to comment
Frustrated Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 14 minutes ago, Singh bling said: Is their any good international cricket left . India played their last two series without sending their best players. Ind vs Aus. 3 match odi series starts next month. In India Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 The venue controversy is one thing. Also one month away from world cup. Kohli plays in Asia cup after 9 years Link to comment
Vickydev Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 32 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said: The venue controversy is one thing. Also one month away from world cup. Kohli plays in Asia cup after 9 years He played last year iirc Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Just now, Vickydev said: He played last year iirc Not in ODIs Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Babar has "family pack" much like Rohit sharma Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 KL Rahul must be taking notes about Nepal bowling. Link to comment
vvvslaxman Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 An absolute road. lol Damn India missed playing here. Link to comment
Laaloo Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Because there is nothing exciting going on in cricket anymore. Teams hardly plays ODIs. Austin 3:!6 1 Link to comment
Nikhil_cric Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Not hyped at all. Only looking to see if Tilak and Prasidh are given chances. Don't care about this cup otherwise Link to comment
Majestic Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Because Pakistan gets to play India. Link to comment
Singh bling Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 6 hours ago, Frustrated said: Ind vs Aus. 3 match odi series starts next month. In India Still very less and not so seriously contested as in late 90s and 2000s Link to comment
LordPrabhzy Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 This is a pointless tournament which I will be skipping- the fact they have scheduled the matches in SL in their monsoon season shows how serious BCCI is about this. Khota 1 Link to comment
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