Afghanistan beats Pakistan in Asian Games cricket

[ZodiaC]

BAN was introduced in a wrong format IMO. They should've been only allowed home matches, and should have had many matches with A teams of test countries. That's how SL improved. There is no question that BAN was allowed it 5 years too early, but unlike BAN on admission, Afghanis and Irish are much stronger. The full Irish team is certainly test standard if you add Eoin Morgan, Hamish Marshall and Ed Joyce in to it.

Agree on the first part, but Ireland is not test quality, not yet. Their only decent bowler is trent johnston and he's gonna retire soon. Their batsmen, from what I have seen, aren't that good. Let them first beat a few top teams and then we'll see. And we can't specially afford to accommodate more teams in this times where there's an overkill of cricket & t20s. Things are not same as when BD/SL came into the scene.

[vaibhav_delhi]

Agree on the first part' date=' but Ireland is not test quality, not yet. Their only decent bowler is trent johnston and he's gonna retire soon. [b']They're batsmen, from what I have seen, aren't that good. Let them first beat a few top teams and then we'll see. And we can't specially afford to accommodate more teams in this times where there's an overkill of cricket & t20s. Things are not same as when BD/SL came into the scene.

Eoin Morgan:hmmm:

[ZodiaC]

Eoin Morgan:hmmm:

And Netherland has Dirk Nannes, give em test status too. He's an English player now. And no, mediocre tried and tested failures like Marshall & Joyce won't make a remotely test team.

[Sachin=GOD]

well played afghan!! well fixed pakistan!!

:hatsoff:

[alp12ha]

Good luck to Afghan team Its great effort of Afghan players

[Pak_Forever]

:facepalm: Well Pak was in UAE, Pak A in West Indies, so this was somewhat expected. Afghanistan is easily the strongest associate right now, so no surprises here for their win. Wish them all the best for WC. Hoping for some upsets from them. b/w India should have participated in this tournament. Penny hungry bcci!

[Sachin=GOD]

:facepalm: Well Pak was in UAE, Pak A in West Indies, so this was somewhat expected. Afghanistan is easily the strongest associate right now, so no surprises here for their win. Wish them all the best for WC. Hoping for some upsets from them. b/w India should have participated in this tournament. Penny hungry bcci!

they're not in the World Cup.

[Pak_Forever]

they're not in the World Cup.

damn and all this time I thought they were. Canada made it and Afghanistan couldn't!

[Sachin=GOD]

damn and all this time I thought they were. Canada made it and Afghanistan couldn't!

Group A Australia Pakistan New Zealand Sri Lanka Zimbabwe Canada Kenya Gruop B India SouthAfrica England West Indies Bangladesh Ireland Netherlands

[bhanu]

Is dat the reason why india didnt participate :cantstop:

[thongale]

And Netherland has Dirk Nannes, give em test status too. He's an English player now. And no, mediocre tried and tested failures like Marshall & Joyce won't make a remotely test team.

Dirk Nannes is Australian last time I checked out. He played for Netherlands because he was pissed off with Aussie selectors. He wanted to "show" them how good was he.