Qualifying Round - Asia Cup 2016 T20

[Nocturnal]

Afghanistan, Oman, Hong Kong and UAE will play a single round-robin stage where each team plays three matches. The top team will advance to the main event starting on February 24. In case two teams finish with the same points total, their net run rates will be used as tiebreaker.


Feb-19 Afghanistan v UAE, Fatullah
Feb 19 Hong Kong v Oman, Fatullah
Feb 20 Afghanistan v Oman, Fatullah
Feb 21 Hong Kong v UAE, Fatullah
Feb 22 Afghanistan v Hong Kong, Mirpur
Feb 22 UAE v Oman, Mirpur

(From - Cricinfo)

[Nocturnal]

So, the qualifying starting today at Dhaka.
Afg vs UAE @3pm local - Fatullah
HK vs Oman @7:30pm local - Fatullah

Oman is in our group by the way in coming T20 WC.
We are playing them March 13th.

Do you want Oman to qualify for Asia cup main event and prefer playing them before the T20 WC?!!

[ma_o_mati]

4 pakistani team playing each other

[Nocturnal]

^^ LOL

Inzamam - Afg coach
Aaquib Javed - UAE coach

[Nocturnal]

Duleep Mendis - SL - head coach of Oman. Also, Shunil Joshi -Ind - Oman's spin bowling coach!

[ma_o_mati]

^^also look at the players from all four sides, they r of pakistani origins. I think ICC should make a ruling on these. I would prefer team like nepal than oman

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by ma_o_mati
^^also look at the players from all four sides, they r of pakistani origins. I think ICC should make a ruling on these. I would prefer team like nepal than oman

England would never let it pass.
They don't even care of origin. They just directly poach players from SA, Zim, Ireland.

[BANFAN]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal
So, the qualifying starting today at Dhaka.
Afg vs UAE @3pm local - Fatullah
HK vs Oman @7:30pm local - Fatullah

Oman is in our group by the way in coming T20 WC.
We are playing them March 13th.

Do you want Oman to qualify for Asia cup main event and prefer playing them before the T20 WC?!!

What's the point, if they aren't strong enough to qualify, why we need to worry about them anyway? Let the strongest of them come and if we beat them we are beating the others anyway on paper.

More over its always the weaker team that benefits from playing matches before the actual fight. Our players are supposed to be able to play an unknown opponent than Oman, bcoz our players have better skill and temperament. Why give that away unless we have to. Let's play the best of the associates!!

[Tigers_eye]

flying start by Oman.

[Tigers_eye]

34/0 after 4.

[patriot]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
flying start by Oman.

UAE you mean.

Afghans getting a thrashing.

[Shehwar]

Any links guys ?

[Night_wolf]

UAE killing it, Fatullah pitch is so flat..we need this kind of pitch in Asia cup to prepare for the WC. We might lose every game in Asia cup if we play in flat pitch but in the long run it'll help in the WC

[Night_wolf]

2 set batsman out in 2 overs, afg coming back to the game. UAE needs to put 180+ fight. still very much possible

[Mas_UK25]

Go UAE knock the Afghans out!

[Mas_UK25]

No Links No one is showing it.

[Shehwar]

Even BTV not showing it!!??

[Night_wolf]

Originally Posted by Shehwar
Even BTV not showing it!!??

not surprising is it? BD not playing and with associates playing you'll see hardly any fan following. no sponsors = no broadcasting

[godzilla]

would have preferred Nepal over these 4 grandpa pakistani teams.

[Mas_UK25]

Afghanis losing this.

[MohammedShamim]

Good start to Asia Cup. Hopefully the main rounds are high scoring.

[mufi_02]

I'm happy that Afg lost. I went to an Afghan restaurant last week and the food wasn't that great. I hope they don't qualify...

[ma_o_mati]

^^lol..

[Mridul]

anyone concerned how Oman batted today? They surely do have skills to hit big. If our batsmen don't click against Oman, I wont be surprised if we lose to Oman.

[patriot]

^^ Honk kong bowling is pretty crap.

Having said that, our team of tigers will always find a way to collapse against any associate team on a given day.