[yedukrishnan199]

Who's rooting for Sri Lanka in today's Asia Cup Finals?

Although Pakistan are a great team, the fighting spirit shown by the young Sri Lankan team is worth applauding and I sincerely hope they put a great show in the final.

[harry10]

Originally Posted by searacer932

All hell would have broken loose saying Shastri is very bad and because of him India are losing.

Now both Kohli and Shastri are not in limelite and BHPIans are struggling to blame people!

Well, if you go through my post history in this thread you will see how much i have been criticizing Dravid since SA tour. I am not into hero worshipping and if someone isn't doing his job properly he should be called out irrespective of our personal feelings about that person. From what I have seen so far, Shastri was a better Coach/Man manager than Dravid. Win or loss happens but if we aren't rectifying the mistakes moving forward then Coach and Captain have to be blamed.

Originally Posted by yedukrishnan199

Who's rooting for Sri Lanka in today's Asia Cup Finals?

Although Pakistan are a great team, the fighting spirit shown by the young Sri Lankan team is worth applauding and I sincerely hope they put a great show in the final.

I want SL to win. They were the underdogs and with their country in crisis they have shown tremendous spirit during the whole tournament. Winning will be a deserving award for them. Although on paper Pakistan have an edge due to better bowling attack.

[deehunk]

Sri Lanka should win, it will create enough competitive cricket in the subcontinent. Since few of us have been caled "experts", my comment is that we are definitely better than BCCI in putting our views. Our teambhp forum is not influenced by any regional or political interests nor admits any new member because he is connected to any political party.

[Emvi]

Originally Posted by Oxy

We should learn from what we went through in 2007. Picked a team full of seniors for the World Cup and got eliminated in the first round. Then we learnt our lesson, got rid of all the deadwood, put a young MSD at the helm and ended up winning the World T20 in the same year.

Let's get one thing straight first. The seniors- Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dravid were not dropped by the selectors for the inaugural World T20 but they voluntarily opted out of the team in order to give youngsters a chance in the newest format. It was Dravid who actually took the initiative and then persuaded Tendulkar and Ganguly to arrive at the decision. It was on Tendulkar's recommendation Dhoni was made captain of the new T20 team.

The rest is history!

[vibbs]

Pakistan has won the toss and elected to field.

They will now win this match as well.

[Eddy]

The opening 6 overs has put them in very good position to become the champions. Best team in the tournament, totally deserved.

[Emvi]

What a comeback from the Sri Lankans after losing the first 5 wickets for just 58 runs. Sri Lanka now have runs on the board. Even though the target is not a huge one, chasing in a big final is never easy. Interesting chase coming up!

[Shreyans_Jain]

9 runs without a legal delivery being bowled!

Has to be a record.

[VWAllstar]

Originally Posted by Shreyans_Jain

9 runs without a legal delivery being bowled!

Has to be a record.

Negates the last ball six by Rajpaksha. Small things which will have big impact in the overall result. Get Rizwan out early and we have a good match to watch.

[amit_snk]

How to explain whats happening today, our excuses: win toss - win match, how's that holding today. Message for everyone, bring fearless young players for t20, old lot has got lot of baggage; in their minds, and yes it's a minds game

[NPV]

Sri Lanka on the verge of a well deserved victory against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final
Great to see the resurgence from Sri Lanka after a long gap.

Edit:Sri Lanka win

[Eddy]

Originally Posted by Eddy

The opening 6 overs has put them in very good position to become the champions. Best team in the tournament, totally deserved.

So happy that this didn't age well

[searacer932]

Two consecutive big matches and Pakistan has choked in both the big matches and they were outright favorites for both the matches.

1. T20 World Cup Semi-Final (2021)
2. Asia Cup Final (2022)

It was a very poor defensive captaincy by Pakistan today and Rajapaksa cleaned them up for that weakness

[KPR]

The fort of Rizwan at one end was the key for SL win here. His ODI style innings in a chase reminds me of our own KL Rahul's.

[Oxy]

Rizwan and Iftekhar faced 80 of the 120 deliveries and scored 87 runs combined. Pakistan lost the game due to this pathetic slow batting which does not have any place in this format.

High time we get rid of deadweight in our team before the World T20. We just don't stand a chance with this top 3 and excuse of bowlers like Bhuvi and Chahal.