Thread: India in Asia cup
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Old 12-07-2004, 08:53 AM in reply to Nikhil's post starting "Shalini, I agree India has picked..."
kiran kiran is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Nikhil

I think India should not place too much priority on such tournaments and should use such opportunities to give the younger one's exposure.
Hi Nikhil
with due respect to your opinion I completely disagree with the above statement.
ASIA CUP is a prestigious tournament.
No other continent in the world has such a continental cup on a regular basis.
4 test playing nations hail from Asia compared with maximum of 2 from australia or africa.
And India or any other asian country for that matter would like to send their full strength team rather than a second string team(resting key players) and try to be the Asian Champions.
Right now their might be some minnows in the tournament but this is their chance to show their skill on a bigger platform,
We've just seen the greece crowned the Europion champions beating many of the europion big guns,this might be very unlikely for Ban,HK or UAE in Asia cup right now,but who knows, we might see an upset or two in the tournament.

Regards
kiran