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Great. Waiting for it.
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Which team is currently the best, in 2023?
- Thread starter ataraxia
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subshakerz
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In terms of players yeah. But I didn't put them definitively best.
subshakerz
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England win the upcoming Ashes should be enough for them to claim no.1
You can't cling onto BG Trophy 2021 forever to prop your team up.
Fuller Pilch
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Too hard to say. I'm just hoping that Sri Lanka wins the WTC.
CricAddict
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It is not just BG 2021. India drew the series in England 2-2 and now demolishing Australia at home as well.
England winning Australia at home won't be enough for them to claim no.1. And if they lose it, they lose any credible claim.
CricAddict
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And since your team is not winning anything worthwhile, you are trying to cling on to England or Australia's?
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Nowadays I am not even sure what squad they will select for each series. The players change so much every series. Now, they have gone ahead and dropped their best young prospect Nissanka for the NZ series.
Socerer 01
International Captain
yeah everyone knows that the real metric to prop teams up is by fantasising how one country will perform in other conditions by denigrating another
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
I stopped supporting Pakistan a long time ago. I was rooting for Stokes against them.And since your team is not winning anything worthwhile, you are trying to cling on to England or Australia's?
Socerer 01
International Captain
Nissanka hasn’t started for them in a while in tests, Oshada has taken his spot
Fuller Pilch
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I'd be happy for NZ to lose 2-0 to SL if it meant we starting picking younger players.
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Since we are comparing recent results, let us check the results between the 3 countries. in their last contested series
India - Won at home against England and Australia, won away against Aus and drew against England
England - Drew at home against India and Australia, lost away against India and Australia
Australia - Lost to India home and away. Won England at home and drew away
India wins. Hence the proof. Theorem over.
Now you do the same thing for their results versus other countries home and away. You will again get proven that India wins. Theorem will be absolutely over.
India - Won at home against England and Australia, won away against Aus and drew against England
England - Drew at home against India and Australia, lost away against India and Australia
Australia - Lost to India home and away. Won England at home and drew away
India wins. Hence the proof. Theorem over.
Now you do the same thing for their results versus other countries home and away. You will again get proven that India wins. Theorem will be absolutely over.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
India also lost to SA in between.
subshakerz
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No they don't.
CricAddict
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Yes they do. Remove the mask.
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And England lost to West Indies.
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Good that you reply in single lines now. Waiting for that word count to get to zero.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Not Stokes' England. Do we have to explain again?
Howe_zat
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I mean you're clearly just assuming that people aren't going to do that because the only oppositon India have done better than England against in recent years is really Australia. Which is presumably why you stopped there and just said 'theorem over' repeatedly like a broken robot in a doctor who episode.
vs Pakistan - England won home and away, so did Australia, India not prepared to play them
vs Sri Lanka - England won home and away, Australia won at home but drew away, India won at home and haven't played there
vs New Zealand - England won home and away, Australia cbf, India won at home but lost away
vs South Africa - England won home and away, Australia won at home and lost away, India won at home and lost away
vs West Indies - England won at home and lost away, Australia won at home and away, India haven't played them
You can use England's loss in the West Indies to beat them with if you like, or pretend like India would easily top their results in Pakistan or Sri Lanka, but it would be a lot more convincing if India had actually done that recently.
I don't even disagree with the general point that India's results are better than England's. They are. You've just made a pointless exaggeration for some strange reason while acting like you have proven something. That's a pretty weird thing to do, isn't it?
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