Lanka in India for T20s / Asia Cup

Well India won and quite handsomely today....give the form, the home advantage and relatively depleted Lankan side..this is a par result.
The top order fired...though the most heartening element was the show of all rounder Pandya with the bat.......already made diffrence with bat and ball once each in his 4 odd games.

It was disappointing thought the way India lost the first game on a pitch that had a bit of seam...and Dhoni's appalling comment...." looked like an English pitch"
he gives up at the tinge of assistance to seamer from the pitch.

Lanka in tatters...on the mat

The asia cup is on......UAE has qualified and afganistan did not-
full dress rehersal for the world cup....and other than WI , it would be 3 subcontinent sides in semis

India's bowling balance looking very good.

Dhoni has decided t bat at No. 7...good move

Hardik Pandya is the real deal...finally we found an allrounder who can hit 140kph with the ball and hit balls outside the park with ease....

yovraj and Dhoni are the weaklinks now in batting

UAE qualified ahead of Afg and didn't give a bad account of themselves in game vs Lanka....
came close to winning after restricting lankans to 129

UAE has a handy bowling.....and these pitches in asia cup are helping seamers.....after Lanka they restricted BD too....well coached by Aquib Javed and pretty decent seam bowlers, who could paly for a number of international sides.

UAE's batting sucks.....looks like Aqib is their batting coach and taught them only as much as he knows

they need someone who can teach them to play straight batted , build innings instead of the heave-ho across the line slogging

Tomm and India-Pak game....always a cracker

pitch seaming a bit....all 3 Indian seamers on tops of their game...Bumrah, Pandya and Nehra seaming it around at 135-140 kph

and pak 35-4 in tatters

ind 2-2 ball jagging around alamirngly and at high speeds

amir on fire.....
3 down and all 3 to amir

Amir is such a special talent, he really really is

hitting almost 150kph and swigning it in to RHB....unplayable at time.
yes he is no less than akram in talent

Nearly pulled the game back vs Bangladesh also, top player.

Shame Him and Mustafizur couldn't face off, that would have been a match within a match.

Always said those years off would help him, he could have been on his way out with back problems now, instead he is better than ever.

BD has throughout the tournament looked like the second best side......and Ind after 4 wins in a row might juts run into a sub-par day vs BD in the final.

India's top-order batting is shaky

KP_fan wrote:BD has throughout the tournament looked like the second best side......and Ind after 4 wins in a row might juts run into a sub-par day vs BD in the final.

India's top-order batting is shaky

BD need something special to beat this India team in T20..infact any team do, Mustafizur was the the special one..but he's not there and I can't see them beating India...i'll be surprised if they take it close, I see india as a clear favourite for the WT20...I'll be shocked if theyre not in the final

Historic day for BD and game reduced to 15 overs......BD will bowl second...so the pressure of chasing runs will be on India

BD need to aim 110

India too good for BD and now start as favorites in the World cup