Asia Cup 2016 | India beat United Arab Emirates by 9 wickets

[#GreenRoars]

India Squad
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, JJ Bumrah, S Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, B Kumar, P Negi, A Nehra, HH Pandya, PA Patel†, AM Rahane, SK Raina, RG Sharma, Yuvraj Singh

United Arab Emirates Squad
Amjad Javed*, Ahmed Raza, Fahad Tariq, Farhan Ahmed, Mohammad Naveed, Mohammad Shahzad, Muhammad Kaleem, Muhammad Usman, SP Patil†, Qadeer Ahmed, Rohan Mustafa, Saqlain Haider, Shaiman Anwar, Usman Mushtaq, Zaheer Maqsood

 

[battler]

Most important game of all time, really pumped!

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Wonder whose gonna win this one

 

[street cricketer]

Hope we play a 2nd string side and Negi gets a go.

 

[battler]

Hope we play a 2nd string side and Negi gets a go.

Yeah hope kohli, ashwin and nehra are rested.

 

[Lords]

Get negi in for jadeja. Bhajan for ashwin. Parthiv for Dhoni. Bhuvi for nehra and let Kohli take charge of the team

 

[Lords]

Most important game for UAE.

Btw Pakistan gets second chance to beat India

 

[street cricketer]

Yeah hope kohli, ashwin and nehra are rested.

Wouldn't mind Dhoni being rested instead of Kohli.

Dhoni has a sore back while Kohli just came from a rest.

 

[Statsman]

I am confused whom to support - The country where I stay and earn my livelihood or the country where I grew up.

 

[Navdeep Srivastava]

I am confused whom to support - The country where I stay and earn my livelihood or the country where I grew up.

In this case be neutral and applaud good cricket.

 

[Ankit007]

Good changes done. Bhuvi, Bhajji and Negi in

 

[maddgenius]

Good changes done. Bhuvi, Bhajji and Negi in

Who goes out?

 

[Spidy201]

Who goes out?

nehra, ash and Sir

 

[Acricketfan]

I am confused whom to support - The country where I stay and earn my livelihood or the country where I grew up.

Support your motherland bro.

 

[Frenchcut76]

Wanted india to bat first and score first 200 of the tournament. Uae won the toss and batting. Going to be another short game.

 

[#GreenRoars]

So, UAE batting first.

 

[Frenchcut76]

50 all out coming. Indian bowling will show how to restrict uae below 100. Hopefully pak phaaast bowler will learn from them.

 

[Sandeep]

Bhuvanesh on green wicket. Why would you choose to bat, UAE

 

[Stark]

Bhuvanesh on green wicket. Why would you choose to bat, UAE

Cuz they cannot bowl twice in a game.

 

[Sandeep]

Cuz they cannot bowl twice in a game.

They should have asked us to bat. At least they can exploit the wicket when its good for seam bowling

 

[Stark]

Jeff Crowe is the Match referee tonight..
Brother of the now late Martin Crowe..

 

[street cricketer]

Why hasn't Jeff Crowe gone home for the funeral?

 

[Ankit007]

Bhuvi swinging at 139 kph

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

Bhuvi swinging at 139 kph

He has gained speed but in the process lost his natural swing. Needs conditions like today to get some swing

 

[street cricketer]

Ain't nobody got time for this match?

 

[battler]

Why aren't the uae guys hacking across the line like they usually do?

 

[Ankit007]

Easy prey UAE for bhuvi as well

 

[street cricketer]

Damn, Patil bhai got out

 

[street cricketer]

Why aren't the uae guys hacking across the line like they usually do?

They are playing safely when the ball is swinging so that they can launch later on

 

[Ankit007]

Ain't nobody got time for this match?

Dead rubber.... Pak is also out of the tourney so they not interested.

Some indians like us are here just

 

[Lords]

They are so scared. Either play to win or go home.
No intent shown, they seem have stage fright in front of big team

 

[Ankit007]

2 back to back maidens for bhuvi

 

[redmaverik84]

Very true. He seems to be mirroring Irfan Pathan. Started out with banana cutters, swining both ways at 130ks, then some smart coach would have pushed them to increase pace, touched 140 and in the process lost the swing due to wrists going awry (pushed into doing something not natural). Irfan then tried going back but then lost both pace and swing. Lets hope Bhuvi doesn't end up that way. Of course both could bat too!

 

[cricket.mad]

Why hasn't Jeff Crowe gone home for the funeral?

For them profession comes first than personal emotions..very different from us Asians. .we would have boarded the first available flight and landed home in this situation

 

[street cricketer]

Bhuvi banana swing.

 

[Frenchcut76]

Uae batsmen are like pak batsmen playing t20 like test match.

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

2 maidens on the trot..is that a record in T20Is?

 

[battler]

They are playing safely when the ball is swinging so that they can launch later on

Targeting Bhajji

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

What's Bhuvi's speed?

I feel he used to swing it more in similar conditions in the past.

 

[Ankit007]

Yar ye match to 10 - 10 ho jaega aise

 

[#GreenRoars]

Back to back maiden by BK.

 

[ShoonyaSifar]

if BD do produce a green grassy wicket for the finals like in the 1st match, we should play Bhuvi ahead of Jaddu.

 

[Ankit007]

What's Bhuvi's speed?

I feel he used to swing it more in similar conditions in the past.

135 to 140

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

135 to 140

That's pretty good.

 

[street cricketer]

The batsman who got out must surely be a rich guy who despite being a tailender, bullies the team into letting him bat at 1 down.

 

[Stark]

For them profession comes first than personal emotions..very different from us Asians. .we would have boarded the first available flight and landed home in this situation

Virat wouldnt agree.

 

[Sadevdesai]

Why are they even playing this match ???

 

[Frenchcut76]

lol at people calling this bowling attack average.

 

[IslamabadUnited]

India will win.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Very true. He seems to be mirroring Irfan Pathan. Started out with banana cutters, swining both ways at 130ks, then some smart coach would have pushed them to increase pace, touched 140 and in the process lost the swing due to wrists going awry (pushed into doing something not natural). Irfan then tried going back but then lost both pace and swing. Lets hope Bhuvi doesn't end up that way. Of course both could bat too!

It would be sooo sad if that happens.

To get destroyed cos you worked on your weakness (speed).

He needs to get back his old swing back.

 

[Ankit007]

Virat wouldnt agree.

Yup, when his father died, he was playing a match. He did his batting, won the match then went home.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Bhuvi 2-2-0-1




Bhuvi > Amir

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

India will win.

That's a bold prediction bro.

 

[#GreenRoars]

And apna Rohaan smashed Bk for

 

[JaDed]

Rain should had avoided that.

 

[JaDed]

And apna Rohaan smashed Bk for

Sorry bro the dude doesn't even know where the ball is going.

 

[Ankit007]

And apna Rohaan smashed Bk for

Smashed?

 

[Sandeep]

And apna Rohaan smashed Bk for

Eh?

Kumar to Rohan Mustafa, FOUR, could have been another wicket for Bhuvneshwar. Awayswinger outside off from a fuller length, the batsman chases it with his feet in cement. Bhuvneshwar locks the target, finds the outside edge... It flies to the right of second slip at an awkward chest height. Raina snatches at it and watches the ball fly away to the boundary

 

[street cricketer]

Dhoni should have a fielder at the boundary exactly behind him.

That has been their prolific scoring area till now.

 

[Ankit007]

They are trying to hit everything but run rate is still 3.5

 

[#GreenRoars]

Eh?

Smashed?

Sorry bro the dude doesn't even know where the ball is going.

Don't care, he is Apna banda that's why i have to celebrate his every single run

 

[JaDed]

Negi throws like a girl send him back for that!

 

[Ankit007]

Jaddu to negi : Bowling to kar jaoge par hamare jaisi fielding kahan se laoge

 

[Varun]

This is the ultimate dead rubber.

 

[Ankit007]

bhajji bowling now...

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Bring on the spinners already.

I am bored with this.

Bhajji, Negi, Raina and Yuvi.

 

[Sandeep]

Don't care, he is Apna banda that's why i have to celebrate his every single run

bhai connection?

 

[Ankit007]

Kya yaar.. Another maiden. Its a dead rubber and UAE is making it more boring

 

[desi_launda]

Run rate 3.12

 

[Frenchcut76]

Bhuvi 2-2-0-1




Bhuvi > Amir

He would have had more wickets than amir if he had played all the games.

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

We are not picking wickets.

They are not able to score runs.

Tuk tuk tuk tuk to death.

 

[Sandeep]

India should send Pandya and Negi to open the batting. New faces for a change.

 

[rhony]

He would have had more wickets than amir if he had played all the games.

He has legend Bumrah on the other side. AMir doesn't have any!!!

 

[Frenchcut76]

Time to create Amir vs bhuvi thread as both are green track bullies.

 

[Ankit007]

Another wicket.. Indians are not even celebrating the wicket

Run rate 2.8 now

 

[desi_launda]

25/3

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

Finallyyyy

 

[Sandeep]

Call off the game and go away already. Embarrassing stuff

 

[Frenchcut76]

He has legend Bumrah on the other side. AMir doesn't have any!!!

Thought pak phaaast bowling attack is the best in Asia.

 

[street cricketer]

Need [MENTION=137262]Firebreaker[/MENTION] to lighten this thread up.