How will cricket fans remember India’s ICC Champions Trophy 2025 win: unfair advantage or well-deserved victory?

[harshjoshi87]

Truth: In the recently concluded Asia Cup, Bangladesh played back to back super 4 matches against India and Pakistan in 2 days. For the match against India they made 3 unforced changes to give themselves a better chance vs pak the next day. All this while ind played matches on three consecutive Sundays. Before anyone says the obvious, ACC organised it. Which is my point that both Ind and Pak are receiving special treatment AT THE EXPENSE of other teams. There are other examples too like one team going to Dubai and then travelling back without playing in some tourney. These things take the shine away from trophies. Disservice to ind team and ind fans.

Obaid bhai you forgot about Asia Cup 2023 when India trashed Pakistan by 228 runs on Monday & beat Sri Lanka by 43 runs on Tuesday at Premadasa.

Because of rain on Sunday on 10th September, India-Pakistan match had to be completed on Monday 11th September.

India played against Sri Lanka the very next day on 12th September, went on to win that match too.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2023-1388374/match-schedule-fixtures-and-results

 

[Vikram1989]

Truth: In the recently concluded Asia Cup, Bangladesh played back to back super 4 matches against India and Pakistan in 2 days. For the match against India they made 3 unforced changes to give themselves a better chance vs pak the next day. These things take the shine away from trophies. Disservice to ind team and ind fans.

In 2023 asia cup india played 50 overs match on 3 consecutive days and no one ever raised a freaking finger about it. They pak on 2 days and sri lanka on next day.They decimated both of them.

In 2018 asia cup, again India played on two consecutive days against Hong Kong and pak.Hongkong stretched them 100 overs but minnows pak folded meekly .

Winners don't complain where whiners find everything suspicious. Steve Waugh in 99wc said " i dont know the opponent yet.we will go to ground and find it out".

 

[Vikram1989]

He has been caught lying multiple times. He uses lies to cover up his bitterness and jealousy.

Even in 2018 asia cup, Indian played consecutively against hongkong and pak.infact hongkong played much better than pak.

 

[BouncerGuy]

India in whiteball is a beast of a side atm... literally unbeatable in almost 99.9% games...

it was a well earned victory

 

[shah9425]

Yeah they had advantage of playing in same venue but they won

While this year we are playing in Colombo and still lost shamelessly

 

[Obaidd]

Obaid bhai you forgot about Asia Cup 2023 when India trashed Pakistan by 228 runs on Monday & beat Sri Lanka by 43 runs on Tuesday at Premadasa.

Because of rain on Sunday on 10th September, India-Pakistan match had to be completed on Monday 11th September.

India played against Sri Lanka the very next day on 12th September, went on to win that match too.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2023-1388374/match-schedule-fixtures-and-results

Harsh, thank you for reminding me of that.

The reserve day too if you remember was only for pak-ind matches.

It’s easy to see and I am expecting some honesty on this, by and large, the single biggest beneficiary of scheduling favours ends up being India (with Pak being a distant second: also condemnable). As I showed, these favours end up coming at the expense of other teams.

 

[Obaidd]

Some folks are just shooting the messenger here. I enter this thread specifically as a global cricket fan not as a Pakistani fan. Pak is a beneficiary of getting special treatment, case in point, pak playing all its matches in Colombo.

When I am talking about fairness I am thinking about all the other teams too. Who else is going to talk about that? I have maintained that meaningful opposition to bcci’s unchecked power needs to come from ind. Because in the long run, these favours start adding up and the shine from trophies is dampened if not completely gone.