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The forthcoming Asia Cup remains under the scanner. Postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asia Cup might now be held in Sri Lanka in late June 2021 after India reached the final of the ICC World Test Championship, where they are set to face New Zealand from June 18-22.

Due to India's busy schedule, where they will likely stay back in the United Kingdom for the five Tests versus Joe Root & Co. followed by home series, T20 World Cup, etc., the Board of Control for Cricket in India ((BCCI) might have no choice but to send a second-string Indian team for the Asia Cup 2021. The upcoming edition is set to be held in the shortest format as a dress rehearsal for this year's T20 World Cup in India. It was played in the T20I format in early 2016 as well -- which remains the last edition -- for the same reason.

It is believed that the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) is now proposing for the Asia Cup to be held in Sri Lanka. It is also learnt that top officials of BCCI have been locked in a meeting with the ACC in order to confirm the window and the whole tournament.

If the Asia Cup goes ahead in late June, Team India might have a second-string side at its disposal as the key players, such as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, will be busy preparing for the five Tests versus England after the WTC final.

"There's no other choice. We can't risk the preparation for the series in England. And cricketers can't twice undergo quarantine. If the Asia Cup happens, India will have no option but to send a second-string squad," top sources confirmed as per a report in TOI.

The last edition of the Asia Cup was held in early 2016 which saw the MS Dhoni-led India become the first-ever Asian side to win the tournament both in ODI and T20I format. If India go ahead with a second-string side, it will be interesting to see who captains the Men in Blue in the absence of Kohli and Rohit. KL Rahul will be a top contender given he was Kohli's deputy in the limited-overs leg versus Australia with Rohit's absence and Shikhar Dhawan's presence.

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports...ia-cup-2021-amid-tight-schedule-report/729463

Good news if we atleast have an Asia cup.
 
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Even if India send their A team they can easily win Asia Cup. There is big difference of skill and talent between India and rest of us. Under Misbah we could end up 3rd or 4th.
 
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Shikjar Dhawan
Prithvi Shaw
Ishan Kishan (wk)
Surya Kumar Yadav
K L Rahul(captain)
Shreyas Iyer(Vice Captain)
Kuldeep Yadav
T Natarajan
Y S Chahal
Avesh Khan
Deepak Chahar
Kartik Tyagi/Mavi/Nagarkoti to tag along with the team.
 
hoshiarpurexpress said:
Shikjar Dhawan
Prithvi Shaw
Ishan Kishan (wk)
Surya Kumar Yadav
K L Rahul(captain)
Shreyas Iyer(Vice Captain)
Kuldeep Yadav
T Natarajan
Y S Chahal
Avesh Khan
Deepak Chahar
Kartik Tyagi/Mavi/Nagarkoti to tag along with the team.
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Rahul will most likely be in England as the back up opener.
 
hoshiarpurexpress said:
Shikjar Dhawan
Prithvi Shaw
Ishan Kishan (wk)
Surya Kumar Yadav
K L Rahul(captain)
Shreyas Iyer(Vice Captain)
Kuldeep Yadav
T Natarajan
Y S Chahal
Avesh Khan
Deepak Chahar
Kartik Tyagi/Mavi/Nagarkoti to tag along with the team.
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Asia Cup will be of T20 format so expect Samson also.

KL
Dhawan
Samson/Shaw
Iyer
SKY
Kishan
Tewatia
Bhuvi/Shardul/Saini
Chahar
Natarajan
Chahal
 
India are planning to take their A side to England for preparatory matches because counties don't field decent enough teams. In that case I don't see Shaw, KLR etc traveling for Asia cup. KLR is anyway going to be part of the India squad.

Can someone post the Asia cup schedule and if it'd coincide with the planned India vs India A matches in England? We might need three squads.

Padikkal, Dhawan, Kishan, Iyer, Surya, Krunal, Samson, Chahal, D Chahar, R Chahar, Bhuvi, Natarajan, N Rana and few others could be thr squad.
 
Shikhar Dhawan
Devdutt Padikkal
Surya Kumar Yadav
Shreyas Iyer (C)
Ishan Kishan (WK)
Krunal Pandya
Rahul Tewatiya
Rahul Chahar/Varun c'varthy
Deepak Chahar
Prasidh Krishna
T Natarajan

Pritvi Shaw
Sanju Samson
Nitish Rana
Chahal
Avesh/Saini/Mavi


Good enough.
 
Mesozoic said:
Shikhar Dhawan
Devdutt Padikkal
Surya Kumar Yadav
Shreyas Iyer (C)
Ishan Kishan (WK)
Krunal Pandya
Rahul Tewatiya
Rahul Chahar/Varun c'varthy
Deepak Chahar
Prasidh Krishna
T Natarajan

Pritvi Shaw
Sanju Samson
Nitish Rana
Chahal
Avesh/Saini/Mavi


Good enough.
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If this coincides with India vs India A matches in England then don't expect Shaw, Prasidh, Avesh, Saini, Mavi to feature in Asia cup.
 
AMSS said:
India are planning to take their A side to England for preparatory matches because counties don't field decent enough teams.
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Oh forgot about this.

That'll mean Shaw, Deepak Chahar, Saini, Nattu and maybe even Iyer won't be available. Interesting....
 
India is also scheduled to play a short bilateral series (3T20Is + 2ODIs) in SL just before Asia cup. So I think the players will get some practice in SL conditions before the start of the tournament.
 
It will be insulting for pakistan if they lose against our second string squad.
It'll be better for them if they boycott this cup .
Im sorry but i can't see them winning by any means there's no clutch player like Afridi who can get them over the line at critical situations.
Those who have bit of boundary hitting ability are mental midgets.
I can already foresee kuldeep yadav uprooting babar for fun.
Hafeez is your only hope with the bat
 
Will probably be third string given India A will be in England at that time.

Better to not play the tournament.
 
Rajdeep said:
India is also scheduled to play a short bilateral series (3T20Is + 2ODIs) in SL just before Asia cup. So I think the players will get some practice in SL conditions before the start of the tournament.
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What even is a 2 ODI series?
 
street cricketer said:
Will probably be third string given India A will be in England at that time.

Better to not play the tournament.
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I can gurantee that BCCI will send a good team and not IPL reserves as many here are predicting. Remember, even in last Asia cup which was just after a gruelling Eng tour, India send a full strength team excluding Kohli.

There is only 1 test match in WTC. So BCCI will sit with team mgmt and try to figure out potential playing XI. Then they will add few reserves + net bowlers. Rest all players would be available for Asia cup.

For example, I dont think Jasprit Bumrah will play in WTC finals as Ishant, Shami & Siraj will be our 3 seamers. So there is every chance Bumrah will be in Asia cup. Same goes for Pandya and Rahul who wont play the test match.

Everyone who is predicting Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan etc. in the squad not gonna happen. BCCI will never send a team unless they are confident of winning the trophy.

Also, there is broadcast pressure. No one want to sponsor a product where Prasidh Krishna is opening the bowling. Remember the fuss they created last time when Kohli opted out?

I think we will see below team:

Dhawan
Rahul (c)
Iyer
Pandey
Samson (wk)
Pandya
Sky
Axar
Chahal
Bhuvi
Bumrah
 
The cricket enthusiast said:
It will be insulting for pakistan if they lose against our second string squad.
It'll be better for them if they boycott this cup .
Im sorry but i can't see them winning by any means there's no clutch player like Afridi who can get them over the line at critical situations.
Those who have bit of boundary hitting ability are mental midgets.
I can already foresee kuldeep yadav uprooting babar for fun.
Hafeez is your only hope with the bat
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Rubbish. They’ll walk over this Indian side, especially if the second string players are also in England for India A matches.
 
Rajdeep said:
I can gurantee that BCCI will send a good team and not IPL reserves as many here are predicting. Remember, even in last Asia cup which was just after a gruelling Eng tour, India send a full strength team excluding Kohli.

There is only 1 test match in WTC. So BCCI will sit with team mgmt and try to figure out potential playing XI. Then they will add few reserves + net bowlers. Rest all players would be available for Asia cup.

For example, I dont think Jasprit Bumrah will play in WTC finals as Ishant, Shami & Siraj will be our 3 seamers. So there is every chance Bumrah will be in Asia cup. Same goes for Pandya and Rahul who wont play the test match.

Everyone who is predicting Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan etc. in the squad not gonna happen. BCCI will never send a team unless they are confident of winning the trophy.

Also, there is broadcast pressure. No one want to sponsor a product where Prasidh Krishna is opening the bowling. Remember the fuss they created last time when Kohli opted out?

I think we will see below team:

Dhawan
Rahul (c)
Iyer
Pandey
Samson (wk)
Pandya
Sky
Axar
Chahal
Bhuvi
Bumrah
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I agree KL and Pandya will play the Asia Cup and maybe join the England test series later. Not sure about Bumrah though. I think Bhuvi, Natrajan, Chahal will be part of Asia Cup and Bumrah will play the WTC final. Expect a few injuries also during IPL.

WTC team will be:-

Rohit
Gill
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
Pant
Jadeja
Ashwin
Ishant
Shami
Bumrah

Backups:-

Mayank( as opener)
Vihari
W Sundar
Siraj
One more pacer- Shardul/Bhuvi

Asi Cup:-

KL(c)
Dhawan
Samson
Iyer
SKY
Pandya
Tewatia/Axar
Bhuvi/Saini
Chahar
Chahal/ Varun
Natrajan
 
Indian reserve team is still more talented, skilled and mentally stronger than the first choice teams of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, so they should still be heavy favorites.

Nevertheless, it was almost embarrassing to watch the first-choice team of India (exc. Kohli in 2018) walk the last two editions of the Asia Cup.

The gap between them and the rest of Asia is humiliating, so an Indian reserve team should at least provide a level-playing field to a certain extent even if they are still far superior to the first-choice teams of the rest of the Asian teams.
 
If India is supposedly the greatest thing since sliced bread and has over a billion people with billions to spend on academies, youth development etc and cricket more culturally embedded in society than perhaps any sport in any country in the world then they should really be the number 1 team by some distance.

In fact they should have a fifth XI that can compete with the world. What do they have to show for all their great bread slicing? Not much to be honest.

They can send a weaker team or the Asia Cup can be postponed - probably better to do the latter.
 
[MENTION=152021]Rajdeep[/MENTION] bumrah is our 1st choice bowler and he will play in wtc final.
 
The cricket enthusiast said:
It will be insulting for pakistan if they lose against our second string squad.
It'll be better for them if they boycott this cup .
Im sorry but i can't see them winning by any means there's no clutch player like Afridi who can get them over the line at critical situations.
Those who have bit of boundary hitting ability are mental midgets.
I can already foresee kuldeep yadav uprooting babar for fun.
Hafeez is your only hope with the bat
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Sacrilege! How could you forget the one and only Shoaib Malik??? He'll swat the Indian attack clean out of the pavilion. Even the main Indian bowlers will shake in their boots at the very mention of his name.:virat1
 
Mamoon said:
Indian reserve team is still more talented, skilled and mentally stronger than the first choice teams of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, so they should still be heavy favorites.

Nevertheless, it was almost embarrassing to watch the first-choice team of India (exc. Kohli in 2018) walk the last two editions of the Asia Cup.

The gap between them and the rest of Asia is humiliating, so an Indian reserve team should at least provide a level-playing field to a certain extent even if they are still far superior to the first-choice teams of the rest of the Asian teams.
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Nothing humiliating at all. They are the best team by far and even their third or fourth team will give tough time to the rest of the teams. But always fun to watch Pakistan though we have a mediocre team.
 
gani999 said:
Sacrilege! How could you forget the one and only Shoaib Malik??? He'll swat the Indian attack clean out of the pavilion. Even the main Indian bowlers will shake in their boots at the very mention of his name.:virat1
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Don’t know if you are being sarcastic or what but Malik has one of the best stats when it comes to matches between Pakistan and India. Although I am not a big fan of him but he has taken indian bowlers to the cleaners over the years.
 
Good opportunity to test our young t20 players.
I think even our reserves can compete with other teams in t20s.

This should be our lineup :

Dhawan(cap)
Ishan Kishan
Sanju Samson(wk)
SuryaKumar Yadav
Shreyas Iyer
Nitish Rana/ Abdul Samad
Rahul Tewatia
Deepak Chahar
Chahal
Navdeep Saini
Natarajan
 
It wasn't gonna happen, now that pak are planning PSL in June we hear this.. where are the conspiracy theorists at..haha
 
Good. We need to do a lot more rotation and do it better than England. We have a gruelling 6 tests coming up in England and then the home season , SA tour etc.

This tournament is not as important .
 
jeeteshssaxena said:
Good opportunity to test our young t20 players.
I think even our reserves can compete with other teams in t20s.

This should be our lineup :

Dhawan(cap)
Ishan Kishan
Sanju Samson(wk)
SuryaKumar Yadav
Shreyas Iyer
Nitish Rana/ Abdul Samad
Rahul Tewatia
Deepak Chahar
Chahal
Navdeep Saini
Natarajan
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I wish they don't send Dhawan. Padikkal is in form.
 
India should send a youth side to the Asia Cup, it's an utter irrelevance of a tournament. They don't have much to gain or learn from sending a full-strength side.
 
The most anticipated match of Asia cup will be BD vs SL. They will play full squad teams and there's a huge rivalry brewing. Both teams are evenly matched too
 
Babeikh said:
If India is supposedly the greatest thing since sliced bread and has over a billion people with billions to spend on academies, youth development etc and cricket more culturally embedded in society than perhaps any sport in any country in the world then they should really be the number 1 team by some distance.

In fact they should have a fifth XI that can compete with the world. What do they have to show for all their great bread slicing? Not much to be honest.

They can send a weaker team or the Asia Cup can be postponed - probably better to do the latter.
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For that to work India needs to field multiple teams on an international level at all times. You can’t just pluck players from domestic, play them against international teams and expect them to win.
 
India have a ridiculous amount of depth, they will still be the favourites.
 
Double edged sword for pak .If they win it will be against "second string "side but if they lose it will disastrous for players and fans
 
The cricket enthusiast said:
It will be insulting for pakistan if they lose against our second string squad.
It'll be better for them if they boycott this cup .
Im sorry but i can't see them winning by any means there's no clutch player like Afridi who can get them over the line at critical situations.
Those who have bit of boundary hitting ability are mental midgets.
I can already foresee kuldeep yadav uprooting babar for fun.
Hafeez is your only hope with the bat
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Dont count your chicken before they hatch.
 
IAJ said:
Lol you just could not resist to reply, itna dard mehsoos hua hai? His overall record will stand there, you can not pick and choose for your own agenda. I was talking about his record from 2000-2019.
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The discussion here is about what may happen in the coming tournament.
 
The cricket enthusiast said:
It will be insulting for pakistan if they lose against our second string squad.
It'll be better for them if they boycott this cup .
Im sorry but i can't see them winning by any means there's no clutch player like Afridi who can get them over the line at critical situations.
Those who have bit of boundary hitting ability are mental midgets.
I can already foresee kuldeep yadav uprooting babar for fun.
Hafeez is your only hope with the bat
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LOL come back to planet earth mate. I can understand you being confident but no need to be overconfident. Your Kohli-less side tied with Afghanistan and nearly lost to Hong Kong last time. Instead of obsessing over Pakistan maybe focus on beating Afghanistan this time.
 
AMSS said:
India are planning to take their A side to England for preparatory matches because counties don't field decent enough teams. In that case I don't see Shaw, KLR etc traveling for Asia cup. KLR is anyway going to be part of the India squad.

Can someone post the Asia cup schedule and if it'd coincide with the planned India vs India A matches in England? We might need three squads.

Padikkal, Dhawan, Kishan, Iyer, Surya, Krunal, Samson, Chahal, D Chahar, R Chahar, Bhuvi, Natarajan, N Rana and few others could be thr squad.
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Oh.. Forgot about that. Then bring on the performers from Mushtaq trophy, IPL and local tournaments and give them a go. At least we will find out the mettle of those and if we find 2 players who are ready for international cricket. That will be good outcome, irrespective of whether we win or not.
 
I can see what the Indians are trying to do here. Normally they would have just ignored the Asia Cup but because now the PCB is desperately looking at the June Window to finish off PSL 6, they are now conveniently interested in having the India Cup and are wiling to send their B and C team aiming to disrupt PCB's attempts to finish of the PSL season. In that situation i would request the PCB not to scrap the PSL and instead send a Pakistani team filled with domestic performers instead to the Asia Cup.
 
Savak said:
I can see what the Indians are trying to do here. Normally they would have just ignored the Asia Cup but because now the PCB is desperately looking at the June Window to finish off PSL 6, they are now conveniently interested in having the India Cup and are wiling to send their B and C team aiming to disrupt PCB's attempts to finish of the PSL season. In that situation i would request the PCB not to scrap the PSL and instead send a Pakistani team filled with domestic performers instead to the Asia Cup.
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No one needs to do anything to sabotage Pakistan cricket when PCB itself is mastering that Art. So you can think of all possible conspiracies but I don’t think BCCI even thinks of anything related to PCB. They are only trying to see if there is a chance for Asia cup happening or not.
I would say scrap this tournament and PCB can complete PSL, if they manage corona better this time.
 
Savak said:
I can see what the Indians are trying to do here. Normally they would have just ignored the Asia Cup but because now the PCB is desperately looking at the June Window to finish off PSL 6, they are now conveniently interested in having the India Cup and are wiling to send their B and C team aiming to disrupt PCB's attempts to finish of the PSL season. In that situation i would request the PCB not to scrap the PSL and instead send a Pakistani team filled with domestic performers instead to the Asia Cup.
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It is not our business what side India sends where!

We play whichever side we come up against - if we win, then we hold the crown - no one has the right to complain.
 
A trophy is a trophy so this is good news. Pakistan should win this tournament pretty easily, which should give the bois a confidence boost before they inevitably lift the T20 trophy on Indian soil, InshaAllah.

Hopefully, England and Pakistan can team up to make this a summer of misery for Indian cricket. :ds
 
jeeteshssaxena said:
Good opportunity to test our young t20 players.
I think even our reserves can compete with other teams in t20s.

This should be our lineup :

Dhawan(cap)
Ishan Kishan
Sanju Samson(wk)
SuryaKumar Yadav
Shreyas Iyer
Nitish Rana/ Abdul Samad
Rahul Tewatia
Deepak Chahar
Chahal
Navdeep Saini
Natarajan
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The arrogance is expected but no less annoying.
 
saeed5646 said:
Double edged sword for pak .If they win it will be against "second string "side but if they lose it will disastrous for players and fans
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Thats not double edged .. coz the edge if they lose would be terrible.. so better smack the Indian team !
 
Bilal7 said:
The arrogance is expected but no less annoying.
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No arrogance here. Even a full-strength Indian team would be battered by Pakistan ala 'Aane Do' series. India needs to prioritise what format and how much cricket we have to play all things considered. Pakistan are favourites, just like they were for the last Asia Cup and the one before that.
 
Likely squad for WTC final:

Rohit Sharma
Shubman Gill
Mayank Agarwal
Virat Kohli
Cheteshwar Pujara
Ajinkya Rahane
Hanuma Vihari
Rishabh Pant
Wriddhiman Saha
Ravindra Jadeja
Ravichandran Ashwin
Washington Sundar / Axar Patel
Jasprit Bumrah
Mohammad Shami
Ishant Sharma
Mohammad Siraj
Umesh Yadav

Likely squad for T20 Asia cup:

Shikhar Dhawan
KL Rahul
Prithvi Shaw / Devdutt Paddikal
Manish Pandey
Shreyas Iyer
Surya Kumar Yadav
Ishan Kishan
Sanju Samson
Rahul Tewatia
Axar Patel / Washington Sundar (whoever misses out on WTC squad)
Kuldeep Yadav
Yuzvendra Chahal
Shardul Thakur
T Natarajan
Navdeep Saini
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
Deepak Chahar
 
With IPL in place and India having a lot of depth, now India can even put up 3-4 strong squads at the same time and still win most of the matches. Winning Tests in Australia with a 2nd string team shows the depth India has
 
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Double edged sword for pak .If they win it will be against "second string "side but if they lose it will disastrous for players and fans
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I think you mean it is a lose-lose situation. But yeah, I get your point. Unless Pak field a second string team as well and win it :asad1
 
Savak said:
I can see what the Indians are trying to do here. Normally they would have just ignored the Asia Cup but because now the PCB is desperately looking at the June Window to finish off PSL 6, they are now conveniently interested in having the India Cup and are wiling to send their B and C team aiming to disrupt PCB's attempts to finish of the PSL season. In that situation i would request the PCB not to scrap the PSL and instead send a Pakistani team filled with domestic performers instead to the Asia Cup.
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The world does not revolve around a middling cricket nation like Pakistan or the low-budget, cheap imitation of IPL called PSL.

Pakistanis think they are the centre of attention to make themselves feel important but they reality is that the days of BCCI viewing PCB as a rival are long gone.

For BCCI, PCB is now just another weak Asian board like SLCB and BCB with mediocre cricket teams.

The issue is that the government of India does not want Pakistan making money off Indian cricket which is they have blocked BCCI from playing bilateral cricket.

It makes no sense for India to completely skip the Asia Cup when they could use the platform to give some game time to the fringe players. You are deluding yourself if you think they are bothered about the low-budget IPL copy.
 
As far as the tournament takes place, it shouldn't really matter. Still all the teams will have something to gain from the tournament considering the World T20 around the last quarter of the year. Testing bench strength or main teams both will add something to the preparation.
 
Savak said:
I can see what the Indians are trying to do here. Normally they would have just ignored the Asia Cup but because now the PCB is desperately looking at the June Window to finish off PSL 6, they are now conveniently interested in having the India Cup and are wiling to send their B and C team aiming to disrupt PCB's attempts to finish of the PSL season. In that situation i would request the PCB not to scrap the PSL and instead send a Pakistani team filled with domestic performers instead to the Asia Cup.
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The issue is not so simple. The broadcasting teams that capture live cricket are very few and they move from one series to another. If both PSL and asia cup take place simultaneously and few other teams play bilateral cricket at the same time PCB may find it difficult to find a broadcasting team as all the other fixtures would be being held at the contracted time except PSL.
 
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No arrogance. Kohli is done as a batsmen and cannot put bat to ball.
Rohit is unfit and a HTB. Sri Lanka pitches are spicier now.
Dhawan is also getting old. Bumrah is not the same after injury and will not fulfil his potential. Shami is useless in T20Is.

We are going through a transition period and need to inject some young blood and give them a go. Hard times for us.
 
hoshiarpurexpress said:
No arrogance. Kohli is done as a batsmen and cannot put bat to ball.
Rohit is unfit and a HTB. Sri Lanka pitches are spicier now.
Dhawan is also getting old. Bumrah is not the same after injury and will not fulfil his potential. Shami is useless in T20Is.

We are going through a transition period and need to inject some young blood and give them a go. Hard times for us.
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God!!!!!!!!!! We Indian fans are so impatient.

Kohli scored 2 half centuries in the recently concluded test series and a 50+ in the solitary test he played in Australia. Just because he isn't scoring centuries doesn't mean he isn't putting bat to ball.

Rohit whom you call HTB scored 5 centuries in the CWC in 2019 in England. Yes, he is a HTB if he was english.

I agree with Dhawan. He can be retained in ODIs but Kl needs to open with Rohit in T20s. Bumrah bowled well in the last IPl just a few months back. I still remember the match against RCB (Alas I am a RCB fan as I hail from Bangalore) after a good start by Josh n Padikkal he broke the RCB backbone with a flurry of wickets and also his key wickets against Dc too which cost DC the match.

How is Shami useless in T20s? He successfully defended 5 runs in the super over against MI.

The current Indian squad for england t20 series and in future for the WC is a good mix of experience and fresh talents. Virat, rohit, bumrah and KL would give us the experience while Pant, SKY, ishan , tewatia would give us the new talent. Its a good mix.

Thank god the selectors dont think like you else it would be harakiri.
 
ex-q-zit said:
God!!!!!!!!!! We Indian fans are so impatient.

Kohli scored 2 half centuries in the recently concluded test series and a 50+ in the solitary test he played in Australia. Just because he isn't scoring centuries doesn't mean he isn't putting bat to ball.

Rohit whom you call HTB scored 5 centuries in the CWC in 2019 in England. Yes, he is a HTB if he was english.

I agree with Dhawan. He can be retained in ODIs but Kl needs to open with Rohit in T20s. Bumrah bowled well in the last IPl just a few months back. I still remember the match against RCB (Alas I am a RCB fan as I hail from Bangalore) after a good start by Josh n Padikkal he broke the RCB backbone with a flurry of wickets and also his key wickets against Dc too which cost DC the match.

How is Shami useless in T20s? He successfully defended 5 runs in the super over against MI.

The current Indian squad for england t20 series and in future for the WC is a good mix of experience and fresh talents. Virat, rohit, bumrah and KL would give us the experience while Pant, SKY, ishan , tewatia would give us the new talent. Its a good mix.

Thank god the selectors dont think like you else it would be harakiri.
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:jk truth is bitter. also read the sarcasm bro before going nuclear on me.
we are not arrogant. t20i team is in transition forever.
 
TeamPak95 said:
I think you mean it is a lose-lose situation. But yeah, I get your point. Unless Pak field a second string team as well and win it :asad1
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We can do with our second string team as well. I mean imagine if our second string side goes in the tourney:

1. Sharjeel
2. Fakhar
3. Random Batsman (Usman Khan?)
4. Abdullah Shafique
5. Husain Talat
6. Danish Aziz
7. Azam Khan
8. Zafar Gohar / Amad Butt
9. Shinwari / Dahani
10. Naseem/ Waqas Maqsood
11. Hasnain


I reckon this team is going to be exciting and will win it for us over the indian B team.
 
I dont care who they send as long as tournament goes on and we get to see Ind vs pak matches. :)
 
Nikhil_cric said:
No arrogance here. Even a full-strength Indian team would be battered by Pakistan ala 'Aane Do' series. India needs to prioritise what format and how much cricket we have to play all things considered. Pakistan are favourites, just like they were for the last Asia Cup and the one before that.
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Your comments are so tedious. Stop being so emotional over everything. No international team today can put out a third string side and hope to go into a tournament as the favorites.

jeeteshssaxena said:
Nowhere did i say that this team will thrash Pakistan..... I just meant that it's good enough to compete.
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I apologize for singling out your comment, my annoyance was directed at those claiming that India would be favorites going into this tournament.
 
If India send an A or B team, as is looking likely, I for one will watch with greater interest than had we gone in with our first squad.

This way we'll get to see the bench strength and watch some new players.
 
shah_1 said:
Dhawan is no more part of test squad
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Hopefully they send him to England as part of the 'A' team that will face India for the practice matches and have a couple of new faces opening the batting for India in the Asia Cup.
 
Cryin Out Loud said:
If India send an A or B team, as is looking likely, I for one will watch with greater interest than had we gone in with our first squad.

This way we'll get to see the bench strength and watch some new players.
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Same. I have zero interest in seeing Kohli, Rohit etc. piling on runs in the Asia Cup. Want to see how guys like Padikkal, Ishan Kishan and others do in the international arena.

Pakistanis see this as India being "arrogant" or whatever but they most likely will be talking about some of these names that they might not have heard of before by the end of the tournament.

Wonder if they would pick Ruturaj Gaikwad too.
 
This source based “Asia Cup in June” news seems b$. BJP backed BCCI top guys wouldn’t want even a second string Indian team losing to Pakistan, 3 times in the tournament possibly. India have a 87.5% win record against Pak in T20s. Why will they squander it away? Pakistan would most likely win the tournament.

PCB‘s priority will be to reschedule the PSL. So they would’nt be too keen either.
 
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TNAmarkFromIndia said:
Hopefully they send him to England as part of the 'A' team that will face India for the practice matches and have a couple of new faces opening the batting for India in the Asia Cup.
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Would be waste of a spot that could be occupied by Agarwal or Shaw. Or even Priyank Panchal or Abhimanyu Easwaran for that matter.
 
Bilal7 said:
No international team today can put out a third string side and hope to go into a tournament as the favorites.
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India and England are the two exceptions because they have tremendous depth. Their reserve players are better than most of the first-choice players of other teams especially the Asian sides and West Indies and South Africa at present.

India’s backup openers - KL Rahul, Shaw, Gill, Agarwal etc. would walk into the first-choice Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan LOI teams.
 
street cricketer said:
Would be waste of a spot that could be occupied by Agarwal or Shaw. Or even Priyank Panchal or Abhimanyu Easwaran for that matter.
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In fact, I would rather have Washington opening for India A than a test TTF like Dhawan. I hope the likes of Washington and Jaiswal are groomed as openers for India A and Gill drops down to the middle order. Feel Washington and Jaiswal seem to be compact and more suited to opening the innings while Gill with his flamboyance will be better suited at 4.
 
It is T20 format, so nothing can be ruled out. Remember, it is a format where one player can turn it on with a few hitting in a matter of couple of overs. Teams these days chase 75-80 runs in last 5 overs.

I expect our T20 team to be:-

KL(c)
Shaw/Samson
Shreyas
Suryakumar
Kishan
Pandya
Tewatia
Bhuvi
Chahar
Chahal
Natarajan
 
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Nov15 said:
This source based “Asia Cup in June” news seems b$. BJP backed BCCI top guys wouldn’t want even a second string Indian team losing to Pakistan, 3 times in the tournament possibly. India have a 87.5% win record against Pak in T20s. Why will they squander it away? Pakistan would most likely win the tournament.

PCB‘s priority will be to reschedule the PSL. So they would’nt be too keen either.
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How can you be so sure? In the last 2 editions of Asia cup Pak failed to reach the finals. It was a Ind vs Ban on both occassions. Just because India is sending a B team doesn't make Pak favourites with Ban, SL and even Afg fielding good teams.
 
saeed5646 said:
Double edged sword for pak .If they win it will be against "second string "side but if they lose it will disastrous for players and fans
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I would say tough situation of India. Imagine the horror of India test team losing against NZ in final and reserve team losing against Afghanistan/Bangladesh in highly unpredictable format of T20. Though we Indians or even people from other countries think that India have good bench strength, any team can win on its day.
 
Savak said:
I can see what the Indians are trying to do here. Normally they would have just ignored the Asia Cup but because now the PCB is desperately looking at the June Window to finish off PSL 6, they are now conveniently interested in having the India Cup and are wiling to send their B and C team aiming to disrupt PCB's attempts to finish of the PSL season. In that situation i would request the PCB not to scrap the PSL and instead send a Pakistani team filled with domestic performers instead to the Asia Cup.
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Reading too many conspiracy theories? The only reason Indians might be excited is to see all these skillful players who aren't playing regularly for India due to cut throat competition in Indian team. And another reason is upcoming T20 ICC events, which make all these international T20 matches more important. We would love to see these second string players playing to full potential and challenging a spot in team for ICC WT20.
Disrupt PCB's plan to finish PSL season?? I am sure PCB is capable itself of doing that. Not taking a dig by saying this. Who knows, even IPL can be suspended due to this horrible virus but I am disappointed by lack of measures followed by PSL management and negligence of all parties involved.
 
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