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India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
 
FYI,. India didn't loose a match in asia cup since 2014 !

Also in 99 WC, aus tied with SA in semi final where as pak has thumping win with 9 wickets in their semi final & u knew wat happened in the final right ?

Anyway, we can't say anything in cricket
 
These are the kind of threads that backfire and give you-know-who space to gloat.
 
Hanging by the littlest straws ...aren't we :):)

Imagine a Pakistan team minus Fakhar, Malik and Babar...thats how the Indian Team today was. The main idea was to give time to Rayudu and Karthik in middle. From Indian pojnt of view thats mission accomplished.

And No this will have no effect on the final for India.

Pakistan's Match against BD tomorrow will definitely have a effect on the final.
 
Not sure why Pak is underestimating BD and taking tomorrow's match too easily. Declared themselves as Winners already. Tomorrow's match is going to be interesting for sure.
 
Mate be aware, this thread may backfire at you even before the Asia cup final. :D
 
Have some belief people, seems like some of you guys don't even want us to go out there and try.
 
Have to get through Bangladesh first OP. Bangladesh fans will have a field day with us tomorrow if we put up one of those performances again :))
 
This was an India C XI.

India B has thrashed us twice convincingly.

We don't have the spinners to defeat them, blame goes to Inzi, Micky and Sarfy.

India will thrash us harder on Friday.
 
Pakistanis will be Pakistanis :))
From worst team in the world to winning the Asia cup. First let us beat banglas lol.
 
Square Drive said:
India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
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you are hillarious .... regardless of the result tomorrow or thte final :ashwin:tahir2
 
Ned Flanders said:
This was an India C XI.

India B has thrashed us twice convincingly.

We don't have the spinners to defeat them, blame goes to Inzi, Micky and Sarfy.

India will thrash us harder on Friday.
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So India-kohli= india B now? I thought India didn't rely on kohli??
 
Such a tie will serve as a wake up call for the complacent Indians, a 10 wicket win here would have done more damage to us in the final. Also we might have used up our bad luck quota in this match with all the umpiring calls and stupid runouts. I respect Pakistani/Bangladesh teams, still 50-50 irrespective of who we face on Friday, will be a whole different dynamic that day.
 
Tie in an inconsequential match with 5 changes, new captain and lot of umpiring erros will dampen their confidence But 8 and 9 wicket loss in a row will boost their confidence?
 
Minnowbasher said:
So India-kohli= india B now? I thought India didn't rely on kohli??
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India - Kohli = India A
India - Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan = India B
India - Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan, Bumrah, Bhuvi = India C
India - Kohli, Dhawan, Rohit, Bumrah, Bhuvi, Pandya and Chahal = India D

Hope that helps. :inti
 
Bhaag Viru Bhaag said:
India - Kohli = India A
India - Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan = India B
India - Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan, Bumrah, Bhuvi = India C
India - Kohli, Dhawan, Rohit, Bumrah, Bhuvi, Pandya and Chahal = India D

Hope that helps. :inti
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People miss the point of "combination" it is very difficult to come up with a combination that works right away. It will have lot of chinks. That is why often world xi lose to a proper team.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
People miss the point of "combination" it is very difficult to come up with a combination that works right away. It will have lot of chinks. That is why often world xi lose to a proper team.
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Yes combination is so important.
 
Square Drive said:
India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
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Lmao :ashwin
 
The sheer optimism is unbelievable.
One day you’ll eventually turn to a realist
 
If this does happen though, it will be the troll of the decade :)))

Provided we get to the final ofcourse. I’m not sure why people are outright dismissing Bangladesh here. With the kind of form Pakistan is in, it will definitely be a close game.
 
I'm quite confident we're winning this actually.

Rohit and Dhawan have played as well as they are capable of up to this point. They are both due failures. Same thing happened in CT.

Fakhar and Babar (our two best bats) are yet to 100s in this tournament. They are due big individual scores. I think Babar will make a name for himself with a century in the final. Sarfraz has also batted worse than his capabilities this far and got some time in the middle last time. Batting at 5, he has a couple of more chances to play an important innings.

Our bowling has looks out of sorts, Amir and Hasan have been trash. And they are not trash. While Bumrah and Kumar look like McGrath+Gillespie 2.0. Expect things to resort back to normal in the final.

Plus, Dubai is Pakistan's ground, not India's. Actually UAE is Pakistan's home. And they will defend it.
 
Bhaag Viru Bhaag said:
India - Kohli = India A
India - Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan = India B
India - Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan, Bumrah, Bhuvi = India C
India - Kohli, Dhawan, Rohit, Bumrah, Bhuvi, Pandya and Chahal = India D

Hope that helps. :inti
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:)))

Thanks. I will bookmark this so I never forget.
 
Indian middle order has been badly exposed in this match. I believe if in the previous matches imam hadn't dropped that catch Pakistan would have done serious damage to their middle order.

Given our bowlers havent bowled to the conditions but it wouldn't have taken much to remove this middle order where everyone seems to be out of sorts.
 
As Pak has already been declared winner here, they will win against Ind by 80-100 runs or 7-8 wkts
 
Let us beat Bangladesh first. But threads like this should be avoided. I hope it doesn't back fire.
 
Square Drive said:
India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
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Are you ok bro?
 
Ozeirk said:
Given our bowlers havent bowled to the conditions but it wouldn't have taken much to remove this middle order where everyone seems to be out of sorts.
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Your Bowling is not capable enough to remove Indian Middle order. Keep in mind Rayudu scored 50+ and Karthik scored 45 today. Thats the backbone of Indian Middleorder that is if your bowlers can get past Dhawan and Sharma.

But plain and simple Pakistan Bowlers lack the quality .
 
Can't do much other than hope that the right combination is selected and the boys do well....

Maybe the boys can get their act together. Even if we win though, it shouldn't cover up the few problems we may have in our squad....
 
Square Drive said:
India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
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Thats the spirit!!!
 
I believe one of these two scenarios will occur Pakistan will win the Asia cup and go on to lose the 2019 world cup or if Pakistan loses against Bangladesh or India we will go on to win the 2019 world cup.
 
Guys guys we have to first beat Bangladesh than we can think of finals and even that I will say India should take it but we never know I did say that if India play Pakistan 3 times in this tournament India would win 2 times but Pakistan would take the final lol but only time will tell, the only think I like is that the final is on Friday ( jummah) so we might get some luck our way lol
 
Bangladesh tomorrow will be hard enough considering how the players must be feeling right now.

Even if we beat Bangladesh, facing a full strength India squad (minus Kohli) right after being crushed twice by the same opposition will take some massive character to come back from.

India are huge favorites. 80-20 in Favour of India.
 
DGBOSS said:
Your Bowling is not capable enough to remove Indian Middle order. Keep in mind Rayudu scored 50+ and Karthik scored 45 today. Thats the backbone of Indian Middleorder that is if your bowlers can get past Dhawan and Sharma.

But plain and simple Pakistan Bowlers lack the quality .
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couple of players in this middle order can only score 40s and 50s against Afghanistan in a dead rubber. Final will be a different ball game and it won’t be that easy.
 
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Sure they will, just that they have a small matter of qualifying for the finals. Looking at how the results have been this year, I wouldn't be overconfident.
 
Its possible. But i want Pakistan to loose a win here will give us more harm than loose just like CT.
 
Yup India have lost all the momentum and with it the confidence. CT Final repeat on the cards
 
[MENTION=100918]Square Drive[/MENTION] Lil bro you were always favourites to win this tournament. Good of you to realise atleast now. Apart from our openers, our batting is nothing.
 
Square Drive said:
India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
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I like you optimism, good luck :)

I am of course rooting for India. should be a great match.
 
Square Drive said:
India is demoralized after tying with Afghanistan, who Pakistan and even Bangladesh were able to beat and get 2 points out of. Basically a loss for India.

Pakistan on the other hand will crush Bangladesh tomorrow and be on a high. In fact just after today's result, the boys will be pumped up thinking that if Afghanistan can control India, so can we.

An under-pressure India vs a Pakistan team on a high, getting their fearlessness back after tomorrow's comfortable win over Bangladesh. You already know what that means :sarf2 #June18 #180 #158

Congrats to my fellow Pakistanis in advance. :babar
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Yes why not . Pakistan were and are favorites for Asia cup since June 2017. It is a matter of just turning up and only the margin of defeat is to be discussed. lets create a poll for India's margin of defeat against Pakistan in asia cup finals.
 
No surprises in that, Current Pak team is on par with Australia 2000-08, even a repectable defeat by 4-5 wickets or 30-40 runs will only enhance stature of India who are one trick pony and performs in a bluemoon.
 
KP From India said:
No surprises in that, Current Pak team is on par with Australia 2000-08, even a repectable defeat by 4-5 wickets or 30-40 runs will only enhance stature of India who are one trick pony and performs in a bluemoon.
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Not only Australia but also with West Indies in early 70's and 80's. Fakhar is equal to Hayden from Aus and Viv from WI. They have a Mcgrath in Hasan Ali, Marshall in Amir and Gilchrist in Sarfaraz
 
The team might win the Asia Cup if one of the major Pakistani batsmen or bowler has a great individual performance.

As a team, I don't think we are good enough at the moment.

However, India C did well to tie to Afghanistan to give Afghanistan a bit of confidence. Had Dhawan and Sharma played along with Bumrah and Bhuvi, Afghanistan wouldn't have got past 200 and India would have cantered. This combination allowed the Afghanis to have a chance, which must be said they took aptly.

Pakistan now needs to focus on Bangladesh which might even surprise Pakistan if Pakistan thinks about batting at 3.5 an over again for 35 overs.
 
Zerotohero said:
Not only Australia but also with West Indies in early 70's and 80's. Fakhar is equal to Hayden from Aus and Viv from WI. They have a Mcgrath in Hasan Ali, Marshall in Amir and Gilchrist in Sarfaraz
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How did you forget Gary Sobers in Shoaib Malik.
 
Forget about Asia cup, Mark my words, this team will annhilate every team in 2019 WC, in semi final, Babar Azam will say to Rohit Sharma after dropping a catch "Dost, tune World cup drop kar diya".
 
Mamoon said:
India C*
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@Mamoom bhai,
You are one poster who does have good knowledge in cricket. It is cause of you& MenInG i have joined PP. I agree with your assesment with Pak is a mid tier team & can one occasionly against Good sides, but do you think this pak team is also lacking the intensity of previous teams ? I have seen matches of early 2000's when may of indian team players are good freinds with Pak players, but they used to play their hearts out but this seems not the case in recent past ? what could be the reason.
 
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It' s all boils down to Rohit Sharma luck Vs pakistan.pak is mystery and X factor unpredictable in finals.i am csk supporter in IPL and Mumbai Indians r like Pak in our league to us.and they won mostly in finals against us.so Rohit too has X factor in big finals.if India loss,then the pressure is reversed to India and fear will grip them .so fr me it's Rohit luck Vs Pak .Rohit mostly underperforms in batting in IPL final yet managed to hold the cup.so I want Pak badly in finals and hard fought contest with champions trophy 2017 winners.come on India erase the bad memory of 2017
 
Most Friday Pak will win against india.their prayers will be answered.dont surrender meekly india
 
Very funny,one thread was on Bangladesh winning asia cup,now the crown has been awarded to Pakistan.Whoever reaches final, if India is beaten it will be regarded as a major upset.India is much much much better team than Pakistan.
 
lack of confidence is the main reason our team is not performing well.Hopefully if pakistan wins comprehensively today the confidence will be back and we can give a good fight to india in the final... hopefully...
 
Pakistan are now chasing in a high pressure match against Bangladesh. Expect them to wilt.
 
Stumper said:
@Mamoom bhai,
You are one poster who does have good knowledge in cricket. It is cause of you& MenInG i have joined PP. I agree with your assesment with Pak is a mid tier team & can one occasionly against Good sides, but do you think this pak team is also lacking the intensity of previous teams ? I have seen matches of early 2000's when may of indian team players are good freinds with Pak players, but they used to play their hearts out but this seems not the case in recent past ? what could be the reason.
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Thank you for the kind words.

Up until the mid 2000's, Pakistan and India had were quite competitive. They had roughly equal number of stars and both teams had a similar standing in world cricket. However, India has completely left Pakistan behind over the last 10-15 years which is why our players have developed a fear of Indian cricketers.

They talk a lot before the games but deep down they probably suffer from inferiority complex. Some people were hopeful that the tide will change after the Champions Trophy Final, but even the Pakistani players know that they got lucky in that game and they do not have the quality to beat India other than once in a while.

It is not surprising that Malik is the only player we have who plays against India with confidence and is not intimidated or scared. He started his cricket in 1999/2000 and played with India at a time when both teams were equal, so he does not have that inferiority complex that our 2010 generation players suffer from.
 
I am curious how this thread is going to go after today's match. We will all be waiting to contribute here.
 
With the control that Junaid has bowled today, India have no chance in the final. Very good bowling .
 
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