Asia Cup 2022: Super 4 Schedule in Page 9 - Page 6

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2758544

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2758498

Asia Cup 2022 Qualifier: Hong Kong join India and Pakistan in Group A.

Team India will take on Hong Kong on August 31 while Pakistan will face them on September 2 in Asia Cup 2022 group stage clashes.

Originally posted by: LuvAlways

Nowadays Virat Kohli is more interested in building relations with other countries players rather than focusing on his performance. Runs Bane naa Bane par opposition ke saamne accha Banna hai🥱

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpaQFsNCp9/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Compare the shamelessness shown in 2017 ct loss to The emotions of harman and womens team in CWG after losing such a close Gold match.

Since that match I hardly enjoyed any match that kohli captained. Always kept praying he will lose his captaincy and form/place soon. I can tolerate everything but not what kohli did. Kya kachra bana diya tha team ko. The off filed drama was no less. He called fans spineless for trolling him for bad form. Cricket is a great leveller. His downfall has just started and will end with him retiring from cricket altogether. Hopefully soon we will see part time cricketer and full time family man leave the national team (I don't have a problem with him prioritising being father and husband but that means he should leave the national team. Its the national team FFS. NO one should be in there whose second priority is Cricket and team). I hope to see better sense in this team. Honestly the team looks like 2 different teams with kohli and without kohli.

With kohli we might win AC because very less competition but same losing in knockouts will happen in Wt20 and same old cycle repeats. The only hope I have is Rohit being captain can make things different.

Sorry for the endless rant on Kohli but he boils my blood because of acts like these. And more so when he is a liability and we have better replacements in the team. 🤬

Originally posted by: BeingBlunt

This is exactly why I don't want him in the team now. He is done now and doesn't care about cricket and Country. All he cares about is his image building PR Exercises. And all this started in CT17 final. I absolutely hated the scene post finals as all were laughing and joking with the enemies after suffering such a humiliating defeat. Seeing that i posted on Twitter that he will end his captaincy career trophy less and he did. The only series he won worthwhile was BGT 2018 but that was also overshadowed by how we won spectacularly in 2020. No one even remembers 2018 win apart from needs. Everyone who watched and heard remembers 'TOOTA HAI GABBA KA GHAMAND'.

Compare the shamelessness shown in 2017 ct loss to The emotions of harman and womens team in CWG after losing such a close Gold match.

Since that match I hardly enjoyed any match that kohli captained. Always kept praying he will lose his captaincy and form/place soon. I can tolerate everything but not what kohli did. Kya kachra bana diya tha team ko. The off filed drama was no less. He called fans spineless for trolling him for bad form. Cricket is a great leveller. His downfall has just started and will end with him retiring from cricket altogether. Hopefully soon we will see part time cricketer and full time family man leave the national team (I don't have a problem with him prioritising being father and husband but that means he should leave the national team. Its the national team FFS. NO one should be in there whose second priority is Cricket and team). I hope to see better sense in this team. Honestly the team looks like 2 different teams with kohli and without kohli.

With kohli we might win AC because very less competition but same losing in knockouts will happen in Wt20 and same old cycle repeats. The only hope I have is Rohit being captain can make things different.

Sorry for the endless rant on Kohli but he boils my blood because of acts like these. And more so when he is a liability and we have better replacements in the team. 🤬

A person's downfall starts when his ego becomes bigger than him. BCCI asked him to play against Zimbabwe to bring back his form but he refused. Why? Because playing with Zimbabwe will hurt his ego. In most of the International tournaments he is opting to take rest while there are people in bench who are working hard day and night to get one call from team India. He never takes break from IPL though. He will not play domestic cricket to improve form because again it will hurt his ego. Actually cricket is no longer a priority for him. He just comes to give guest appearance to please his fans. Even if he gives an average performance in AC, he will be still selected for WC. Somewhere even BCCI is scared of backlash from Kohli fans. That is they are scared of dropping him and start giving explanation for Virat's absence from International tours.

Are Pakistan and India always in same group?

Asia Cup is fast approaching. Less than two days to go!

Posers for India: The same old top three?

India have adopted a refreshingly positive approach in T20Is of late, but a few wrinkles still remain to be ironed out.

Pakistan, Dubai. Just under a year ago, this combination of opponent and venue tripped India up at the men's T20 World Cup. That defeat began India's slide towards an early exit from the tournament, and left them needing to rethink their approach to T20Is.

On Sunday, an India side managed by a different coaching group and led by a different captain will meet Pakistan once again in Dubai. The team won't be too different to the one that featured in last year's meeting, but it's been playing a different style of T20 over the last few months.

Consider their phase-wise scoring rates. Considering only matches in which they have batted first - and haven't had a target dictating their approach - it's amply clear that India have been scoring significantly quicker in every phase than they used to.

So far, the new approach has had a significant impact on India's results. They were an excellent chasing side even during the Ravi Shastri-Virat Kohli regime, winning seven out of eight matches while batting second from the start of 2020 until the end of the 2021 World Cup, and their win-loss ratio while chasing has remained exactly the same in the period since.

While batting first, however, India's results were distinctly mixed in the earlier period, with 15 matches bringing seven wins, six losses and two ties. So far in the Rahul Dravid-Rohit Sharma era, India have achieved far better results while batting first, winning 12 and losing just three games .

As encouraging as these results have been, the Asia Cup will present a stern test of this new approach, with India likely to use the tournament to settle on their first-choice combination for the T20 World Cup to be played in October-November. As effective as the new T20 template has been so far, a few wrinkles still remain to be ironed out.

Originally posted by: la_Reine

Are Pakistan and India always in same group?

Cheers..

Pant or Karthik? Or both?

If Rohit, Rahul and Kohli occupy the top three spots, and if Suryakumar, Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja are automatic picks in the middle order, it leaves just one more batting slot open.

Against South Africa earlier this year, in his first series since his recall to the India side on the basis of a sensational IPL season, Karthik showed why he's among the best T20 finishers going around, scoring 71 runs in 36 balls in the death overs (17-20), while only being dismissed twice.

His form has fallen away a little since then, though, and along the way India have also had to work around the hyper-specialised nature of his skills. While Karthik can be incredibly destructive in the last four or five overs, and against pace, he's less assured while batting in the middle overs and against spin. To ensure that he bats in his preferred role, India have often promoted Jadeja - or Axar Patel - above Karthik when they have lost their fourth wicket earlier than ideal, but it's an imperfect solution.

Jadeja, who is likely to be India's first-choice spin-bowling allrounder at the World Cup, has had the same issue as Karthik in recent years. In the last three IPL seasons, he has been excellent against pace - 495 runs at an average of 45.00 and a strike rate of 175.53 - while struggling against spin - 80 runs at 26.66 and 74.76. His international record since the start of 2020 is similar: a strike rate of 160.00 against pace and 96.42 against spin.

As a result, it's possible that Karthik might end up slipping out of India's first-choice XI if there isn't room in it for both him and Pant. This is especially so since Pant, after an indifferent series against South Africa, has found form in T20Is, particularly during the recent tour of the West Indies. Apart from his left-handedness - something India have in limited supply otherwise - he's also more versatile than Karthik in being able to open or bat through the middle overs.

All this, of course, is subject to change based on how India line up during the Asia Cup and how their batters perform their respective roles.

Who's the No. 8?

When West Indies and England reached the final of the T20 World Cup in 2016, they seemed to set in place a template for all teams to follow: uninhibited hitting from start to finish, facilitated by genuine batting depth. The final featured a smorgasbord of all-round talent: Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan and David Willey on one side; Dwayne Bravo, Andre Russell, Daren Sammy and Carlos Brathwaite on the other.

That template, however, hasn't been an easy one for other teams to emulate, primarily because quality allrounders aren't easy to find or manufacture. For many years, India's tendency towards conservatism with the bat in white-ball cricket stemmed from a lack of bowlers with hitting ability. If India have changed their approach over recent months, they have done so without necessarily finding a failsafe solution to their issue of hitting depth, with Harshal Patel bringing decent but not eye-catching returns (52 runs in eight innings at an average of 10.40 and a strike rate of 130.00) as their most oft-used No. 8 since Dravid took over as coach.

A rib injury has kept Harshal out of the squad for the Asia Cup, which leaves R Ashwin as India's most accomplished No. 8 option. Ashwin has come off his most productive IPL season with the bat, during which he turned Rajasthan Royals' lack of depth into an opportunity to showcase his versatility and improved hitting range, and a pair of recent cameos against West Indies have suggested he could be a decent option in international cricket too. He's not necessarily a hitter in the same way that Jordan or Santner or Romario Shepherd are, but India will have to live with the options they have.

This might mean using Hardik in an anchor-ish role - which he played on multiple occasions during Gujarat Titans' run to the IPL title this year - should they lose a handful of early wickets. But Hardik's recent bowling form could give them another option too, should they wish to try it: leave out a specialist bowler, trust Hardik to bowl his full quota, and bring in Hooda as a batting allrounder, with his offspin allowing them to minimise the use of Jadeja against left-hand batters.