*Official* Asia Cup 2018 in UAE

[Prince EWS]

But if they had qualified then West Indies would have missed out wasn't it?

Nah Afghanistan had a horrible start to the tournament and were relying on a lot of things to go their way to make it.

 

[jimmy101]

Yeah it was a great tournament, but one which left a real sour taste in my mouth. Someone worthy of qualification was always going to miss out.

 

[jimmy101]

Nah Afghanistan had a horrible start to the tournament and were relying on a lot of things to go their way to make it.

19-year old Rashid having the captaincy thrust upon him did them no favours.

 

[ankitj]

Rashid just turned 20 yesterday! Does he follow the Pakistani calendar to track his age? Looks like he must be in late 20s.

 

[jimmy101]

Perhaps he was born during a leap-year?

 

[ankitj]

Perhaps he was born during a leap-year?

That's incidentally my little one. Born on 29th Feb 2016

 

[jimmy101]

That's incidentally my little one. Born on 29th Feb 2016

Congratulations! Little Ankit jnr!!

I'll be looking out for him/her in 2036 as a fresh faced 5-year old debutant ;-)

 

[randycricfreak]

Wtf we were dominating when I went to bed, how did we lose that?


It's okay we have Sri Lanka to whip around now

only to get re-whipped.

 

[TheJediBrah]

only to get re-whipped.

Incidentally related Cricket Sri Lanka's diet plan. Extra whipped cream on everything.

 

[Borges]

Why are these horrible guys, who had one meaningless game per day earlier, now scheduling two games of some consequence at the same time?

 

[ankitj]

How a Dhoni masterstroke turned Kedar Jadhav's career around - ESPNcricinfo

One of his last out-of-the-box moves before giving up the ODI captaincy was to hand Kedar Jadhav the ball in the nets in Dharamsala when New Zealand toured in October 2016. Up until then, Jadhav had just nine wickets in nine years of representative cricket across formats, and had bowled less than three balls per match on an average. But all that was to change soon.

So Jadhav was not an all-rounder ever? Wow!

 

[Prince EWS]

How a Dhoni masterstroke turned Kedar Jadhav's career around - ESPNcricinfo




So Jadhav was not an all-rounder ever? Wow!

Haha yeah there was lots of talk on CW at the time about how random it seemed for him to be bowling at all.

 

[Prince EWS]

From 2016:

I tend to think it's probably only CW who really appreciates how funny the whole Jadhav thing is. It's so much worse than a standard part-timer like Raina or Rohit or someone like that taking some wickets in a series because he's not even a part-timer; he's been a no-timer even domestically until now.

Good times.

 

[ankitj]

I missed this whole conversation on CW and also missed glancing at his domestic bowling record on his cricinfo page. Quite amazed to find this out.

 

[weldone]

Journalist: Did you ever try bowling with an even lower arm than this one?

Kedar: I think that'd be illegal.

 

[ankitj]

Liton Das averages 13 in ODIs. Why is he a permanent fixture in their team.

 

[cnerd123]

Let's finish off what HK started boys

 

[Prince EWS]

Liton Das averages 13 in ODIs. Why is he a permanent fixture in their team.

In his defence he's played most of them batting down the order as a wicket keeper (EDIT: wrong; see my next post), and he's a top order batsman who was never going to have any success with the bat in that role.

As an opener he's more just unproven than proven horrible, although he's played six games there for an average of below 10 as well. I definitely wouldn't be selecting him - his selection becomes worse each game - but it's not really quite as bad as the career ODI stats make it look.

 

[TheJediBrah]

In his defence he's played most of them batting down the order as a wicket keeper, and he's a top order batsman who was never going to have any success with the bat in that role.

As an opener he's more just unproven than proven horrible, although he's played six games there for an average of below 10 as well. I definitely wouldn't be selecting him - his selection becomes worse each game - but it's not really quite as bad as the career ODI stats make it look.

six games for an average below 10 is pretty close to being proven horrible tbh

 

[Prince EWS]

six games for an average below 10 is pretty close to being proven horrible tbh

Looking at his record more closely, his non-opening games were actually at three at four anyway, so I must have imagined him batting six and keeping (maybe he did it in some T20 games). It really is actually as bad as it looks, lol.