Asia Cup 2010 in Sri Lanka

Virender Sehwag
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Rohit Sharma
MS Dhoni (capt & wk)
Saurabh Tiwary/Virat Kohli
R Ashwin
Praveen Kumar
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Ashish Nehra

Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84 Originally posted by sam_ahmed Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84 Originally posted by zuhair_abbasi Tendulkar is rested on request and I guess he deserves it and he can play on his terms knowing that he is not getting any younger. India have a decent side for Asia cup but that's about it - they will find it hard to be in the finals. But which is the team that can trouble India ? Any of the other three teams can trouble India Raj. I agree on past form (last 18 - 24 months) India are clear favorites but as of now they are not high on confidence. The team that was sent to ZIM has only 1 proper regular(Raina) and 2 (Yousuf,Jadeja) other whose position was on trial in Indian Sqad.We are not sending that team for Asia cup.   Going by line up , I don't see any full strength team of Pak ,SL or Ban anywhere near to fulll strength team of India.That said , yes in cricket stranger things have happened and it is always true that sometimes are favourites are kicked out.   If I have to pick a team on strength it has to India,SL,Pak and Ban in the order specified.

Originally posted by milkman This one is for poor Raj, who thinks Andrew Symonds always benefits from the umpires http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i1jcRsZjHk&NR=1

Your memory is poor, nowhere in any of my post I said that Andrew symonds in particular is always benefitted from the umpires.He is an excellent allrounder.

Milkman, from me watching Cricket, i'd agree with Raj, except for the 2005 Ashes.

To be very honest I never really felt that AUS have benefited the most from umpiring decisions, but I believe whenever they get benefited it is highlighted a lot, that's mainly because 1) most other teams even after getting benefited by some umpiring decisions end up on the losing side, but AUS make them count  2) since AUS win so often, people/media (most of the time) think of ways to belittle their performances.

Having said that, I very strongly believe what happened at the sydney test was terrible and India was hard done by, but that was just one off incident.

Now even in the Sydney test, it was a well known fact that captains will take fielders word on close catches. Going by that rule umpire Benson asked Ponting weather Clarke has taken a clean catch, to which Pointing said "yes" by raising his finger... there is absolutely nothing wrong in that, but here in India the media highlighted it as "Ponting is the umpire and is giving players out" which is not just ridiculous but shameless stuff by the Indian media... I cited this incident only to show how much the media highlights things against AUS which I think is not correct.


Edited by sam_ahmed - 14 June 2010 at 7:00pm

Originally posted by sam_ahmed To be very honest I never really felt that AUS have benefited the most from umpiring decisions, but I believe whenever they get benefited it is highlighted a lot, that's mainly because 1) most other teams even after getting benefited by some umpiring decisions end up on the losing side, but AUS make them count  2) since AUS win so often, people/media (most of the time) think of ways to belittle their performances. Having said that, I very strongly believe what happened at the sydney test was terrible and India was hard done by, but that was just one off incident. Now even in the Sydney test, it was a well known fact that captains will take fielders word on close catches. Going by that rule umpire Benson asked Ponting weather Clarke has taken a clean catch, to which Pointing said "yes" by raising his finger... there is absolutely nothing wrong in that, but here in India the media highlighted it as "Ponting is the umpire and is giving players out" which is not just ridiculous but shameless stuff by the Indian media... I cited this incident only to show how much the media highlights things against AUS which I think is not correct.

Originally posted by milkman People always want excuses and reasons why the lose.

Maybe that is the reason why everytime when a team looses to England, some media some country start to give lame excuse of foriegn legion .

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 15 June 2010 at 4:29am

Raj is a dreamer...

I think Sri Lanka might have the tournament in the bag... they look pretty compact and confident. Pak showed no ODI form at all in Australia, but that was 6 months ago now so who knows... it's Pakistan afterall - no one knows!

Originally posted by spin wizard Milkman, no one is disputing that Aussies are champs with or without umpiring decision but I'm just saying, from what I watched, I thought Aussie benefited more from umpiring decisions than their oponents.  Aussies with McGrath and Warne were too powerful, even shabby decision still wouldn't hamper them!!

hey I have clearly written as "My wishlist of results".There is a huge difference between wish and prediction.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 15 June 2010 at 7:27pm

Good match. Happy about how things went - not entirely convinced of Afridi's captaincy though. Just want one change - have to drop Asif and bring in Ajmal. Shahzeb is a hit miss player - pretty much like Imran Nazir - he wont go a long way - Umar Amin on the other hand is pretty decent. Something tells me, it's Shoiab Malik's chance to score another Asia cup century - and no marks for guessing against whom?

Yes - he did not seem fit. But probably he will need to play a few more games. there ain't an iota of doubt hat he is still as effective as he ever was.

Having said that, watching him yesterday told me that his test career might well be over. I am not a fan of Asif playing ODIs