***Official*** 2014 Asia Cup

[Watson33]

Good game for the neutrals, might keep a closer eye on the Asia Cup after that game! Better than the dross game between WI and Eng at the moment!

 

[YorksLanka]

most of the games have been very close and good to watch tbf.

 

[Watson33]

most of the games have been very close and good to watch tbf.

It looks so! With the England-WI and England Lions in Sri Lanka I haven't really paid much attention to it.

 

[YorksLanka]

so nice to see Afghanistan beat Bangladesh yesterday- not that i have anything against Ban but its just fairytale cricket isnt it?Both opening Afghan bowlers had some decent pace about them, Hassan i think, had an average speed of 138K's at one point !! very handy

 

[hendrix]

btw Kohli's post-match conferences seem to going down the Dhoni route. Extremely ****

At least he picked Mishra and had the mindset to pick an attacking bowler.

He can't help it if he's only asked questions about his own team.

 

[hendrix]

The MCC should just get with it and rule that boundary ropes should be no more than a metre within the advertising boards. The game got on pretty fine for 100+ years before the boundary loving advertisers got the cricket boards to go along with the excuse that fielders need to be protected from their lack of awareness of their surroundings.

yeah.

It just wasn't good cricket at the end there.

Pakistan deserved to win (because really, they shouldn't have chucked away those wickets at the end), but gee I hate seeing hits like that win a match.

 

[artvandalay]

Bhogle is just a good anchor. The commentary box in * for this series is otherwise just a cliche ridden drag with people like Lal and Gavaskar Jr.

 

[elmadrid]

I'm not saying it's unfair that Pakistan won, far from it. They deserved it. Just stating that's why I harte ODIs at the moment. It's a lottery at the death, way too often. The risk vs rewards of slogging with your eyes closed is too heavily in favour of the slogged. 65m boundaries ffs. All 3 of Afridi's sixes at the end were nowhere close to being good hits

It's lottery for you because you have ****ty bowlers.

 

[Jono]

Who knows when we'll see the next india vs pakistan match..

Adelaide, Australia - World Cup 2015.

I will be in attendance.

 

[Jono]

Was impressed by Kohli's captaincy this game. That and Mishra were good points for India.

Small boundaries are very lame, Afridi would've been out for both of those shots in the 90s, but same for either side etc etc

Yep the only reason we even made it to the last over is because of Mishra's bowling and Kohli's attacking captaincy (oh and Pakistani choke etc.).

Deadset 4-5 of the flogs in this ODI team aren't good enough. Its pathetic. Almost half a team.

 

[Jono]

It's lottery for you because you have ****ty bowlers.

Hah yeah this is 100% accurate.

Stop blaming any other factor, death bowling is of course harder than ever before but its still an even playing field. Tell me when is the last time India won an ODI? If its a lottery they'd eventually win one you'd think. And we often lose because of our death bowlers.

 

[Daemon]

Hah yeah this is 100% accurate.

Stop blaming any other factor, death bowling is of course harder than ever before but its still an even playing field. Tell me when is the last time India won an ODI? If its a lottery they'd eventually win one you'd think. And we often lose because of our death bowlers.

We beat bangladesh

 

[Jono]

I'm 99% sure that wins over teams that lost to Afghanistan don't count.

 

[hendrix]

I'm 99% sure that wins over teams that lost to Afghanistan don't count.

if India loses to Afghanistan this will be epic

 

[Jono]

Well it will just mean that every win of SA, NZ and India and Pakistan recently don't count.

 

[hendrix]

I won't know what to believe, man.

 

[Jono]

Afghanistan are shaking up the cricket world!

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hah yeah this is 100% accurate.

Stop blaming any other factor, death bowling is of course harder than ever before but its still an even playing field. Tell me when is the last time India won an ODI? If its a lottery they'd eventually win one you'd think. And we often lose because of our death bowlers.

Come on, Jono, you're usually better than this. Never did I try to point to those mis-hits as an excuse for India's bowling. I even said that I would've been annoyed even if one of our sloggers had won the game for us with top edges. It's a lottery for blind sloggers at the death, that is what I meant. Sangakkara's hundred the other day was a great knock and I made no such comments that day. All I was saying was that ODIs reward sloggers too much, both from our team as well as others

 

[Contra]

There is no way you can blame the bowlers for the 2 losses, India should have scored at least 20-30 runs in each of the two matches against SL and PAK, also dropped catches and missed stumping don't help either, fact is that India should never have been in a position where the last few overs decide the match. I honestly thought Dinesh Karthik had the goods to bat in the middle order after mid-last year and his 2 centuries in the CT warm up matches but man he's crap, and seems to be a lame keeper too. They really should just let Jadeja bat up the order, he deserves the opportunity given he's a regular in the team and will be needed over the next year as compared to some of the other players.

Geez how much are we gonna miss Dhoni the player in limited overs once he retires?

 

[Jono]

Come on, Jono, you're usually better than this. Never did I try to point to those mis-hits as an excuse for India's bowling. I even said that I would've been annoyed even if one of our sloggers had won the game for us with top edges. It's a lottery for blind sloggers at the death, that is what I meant. Sangakkara's hundred the other day was a great knock and I made no such comments that day. All I was saying was that ODIs reward sloggers too much, both from our team as well as others

No I'm not, I'm always a self-hating Indian fan when we lose to Pakistan.