Asia Cup U19

[Nikhil_cric]

These Indian kids just don't eat enough meat. 

[Prabhdeep Singh]

If the boys are vegetarian mainly, need to start eating paneer, tofu and soya if lacking in protein.

[Lone Wolf]

4 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

These Indian kids just don't eat enough meat. 

Don't think so.. most seem non Brahmin and would be meat eaters.

 

Athletic ability is real question mark.

Look at Mhatre and Vaibhav's phitness.

 

Pak players look a lot leaner otoh.. which is weird and unusual.

[Lone Wolf]

5 minutes ago, Prabhdeep Singh said:

If the boys are vegetarian mainly, need to start eating paneer, tofu and soya if lacking in protein.

Pretty sure their parents and trainers know that as well.

In this day and age I don't think professional cricketers at the beginning can afford to be a vegetarian.  

Even basic gym training and daily protein intake becomes a hassle for vegetarians forget about Sportspersons.

[Suhaan]

Loss purely based on poor toss judgement 

Too many losses due to poor decision making 

Who let's build your budding cricketers in the paindu direction of failed cricketer like Joshi?

He should have been ,reading newspaper sipping cup of tea back home rather fooling around here in this professional position

 

[Gollum]

1 hour ago, deepdynamo said:

Pak fans are getting some respite lately.

 

Hongkong sixes

Emerging Asia Cup

Series win vs SA,SL,ZIM
and now U19 Asia Cup

 

All low key success but huge for getting fans back.

 

Test series draw against RSA was creditable. We lost to the world champs by 400+ runs, our test team is in a worse state than Pak's atm. 

[Gollum]

41 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

These Indian kids just don't eat enough meat. 

 

34 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Don't think so.. most seem non Brahmin and would be meat eaters.

 

Athletic ability is real question mark.

Look at Mhatre and Vaibhav's phitness.

 

Pak players look a lot leaner otoh.. which is weird and unusual.

 Even our non veg people are protein deficient. Athletes like these kids should be consuming 120 g of protein per day, doubt Indians get that with their carb heavy diets. All our players are shaped like potatoes. 

[Gollum]

Only India has such surrenders in finals. Who loses by 180 runs, 190 runs man? This is like losing a tennis final 6-0, 6-0. 

 

Even Toygers keep finals closer than our lot. 

[vvvslaxman]

By the way in 2024 we were thrashed by Bangladesh in the final. Routed for 139 runs. Yet we made world cup final. But this bowling unit is pitiful

[Gollum]

Women chased 340 in a WC SF against invincible Australia.

 

Dream for our boys/men. 

[Nikhil_cric]

35 minutes ago, Gollum said:

 

 Even our non veg people are protein deficient. Athletes like these kids should be consuming 120 g of protein per day, doubt Indians get that with their carb heavy diets. All our players are shaped like potatoes. 

Yep. Forget about athletes. Indian consumption of protein per capita is lower than all our neighbours. It's disgraceful 

[Gollum]

8 minutes ago, Nikhil_cric said:

Yep. Forget about athletes. Indian consumption of protein per capita is lower than all our neighbours. It's disgraceful 

Matters made worse by random, illogical bans on eggs, poultry, fish, never mind red meat. Even tribals are being denied eggs in mid-day meal schemes in many states. Except in NW part of India, we don't digest milk that easily. 

[Lone Wolf]

7 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Matters made worse by random, illogical bans on eggs, poultry, fish, never mind red meat. Even tribals are being denied eggs in mid-day meal schemes in many states. Except in NW part of India, we don't digest milk that easily. 

Yeah really bad state of affairs... And then states like Mah decide to stop eggs in mid day meals citing budget constraints...  These jokers have money for sh*t in ladli behnas

[rkt.india]

4 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Yeah really bad state of affairs... And then states like Mah decide to stop eggs in mid day meals citing budget constraints...  These jokers have money for sh*t in ladli behnas

Ladli behna ka paisa logo ke paas hi jata hai. Ladies ke paas jisse vo Ghar chalati hain. India is a socialist country and there shouldn't be any issues with social welfare schemes. Many developed countries too run welfare schemes. 

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Ladli behna ka paisa logo ke paas hi jata hai. Ladies ke paas jisse vo Ghar chalati hain. India is a socialist country and there shouldn't be any issues with social welfare schemes. Many developed countries too run welfare schemes. 

So freebie culture is bad only when Congress does it? 

[vvvslaxman]

Shockingly low supply of genuine fast bowlers. Is this Kumar dude is the best under-19 fast bowler in the entire country? I refuse to believe that. Some village kid must be bowling faster than this. This guy bowls at Krunal pandya's pace.

[rkt.india]

11 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Shockingly low supply of genuine fast bowlers. Is this Kumar dude is the best under-19 fast bowler in the entire country? I refuse to believe that. Some village kid must be bowling faster than this. This guy bowls at Krunal pandya's pace.

He bowls 135-140 but his lines were poor today. He is one of the quickest in this year's u19 group and I have seen most of them who played in the u19 challengers. And kishan has actually been clocked in UP T20 league. 

 

Watch this. He was quick. Probably little down in pace currently as he is coming back from injury from Aus tour, he missed both challengers and triseries with Afghanistan.

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBalyxgMddE/?igsh=aHpuNXVvazJsOGk3

Edited December 21, 2025 by rkt.india

[Lone Wolf]

12 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Ladli behna ka paisa logo ke paas hi jata hai. Ladies ke paas jisse vo Ghar chalati hain. India is a socialist country and there shouldn't be any issues with social welfare schemes. Many developed countries too run welfare schemes. 

They have super high health and devlopement indicators unlike us.

 

This is not just restricted to food and nutrition which is btw core of society 

But take example of,

ISRO 1 billion Dollars budget 

 

SC ST budget is 25 billion

MNREGA is 10 billion lol

 

Talk about priorities 

 

 

Edited December 21, 2025 by Lone Wolf

[rkt.india]

21 minutes ago, Gollum said:

So freebie culture is bad only when Congress does it? 

I used to think same but not anymore. Welfare schemes are important. Our biggest issue is corruption, not the welfare schemes.

[vvvslaxman]

21 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

He bowls 135-140 but his lines were poor today. He is one of the quickest in this year's u19 group and I have seen most of them who played in the u19 challengers. And kishan has actually been clocked in UP T20 league. 

 

Watch this. He was quick. Probably little down in pace currently as he is coming back from injury from Aus tour, he missed both challengers and triseries with Afghanistan.

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBalyxgMddE/?igsh=aHpuNXVvazJsOGk3

 

But these pakistani guys stood outside the creae atleast a foot and thrash him all over. It cannot be that easy right