#asia cup squad

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Never hate the rain as much as today!

But kiaaaa matchhh thaa.

Shaheen, Naseem, Haris!

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Asia Cup 2023: Pakistan's Triumphs and India's Concerns - A Preview of the High-Stakes Clash

The upcoming clash between Pakistan and India in the Asia Cup 2023 on September 2nd has generated a wave of anticipation and tension. Pakistan's recent significant victory has added an extra layer of complexity to this highly awaited encounter. In a match preceding this clash, Pakistan secured a resounding win against Nepal, setting a strong precedent. As the rivalry heats up, India's apprehensions seem to be growing due to Pakistan's recent surge in form.

**Dominating Performance Against Nepal:**

Pakistan demonstrated its prowess in the first match of the Asia Cup 2023 by defeating Nepal by a margin of 238 runs. This victory not only showcased Pakistan's batting might but also highlighted its remarkable prowess in bowling. Pakistan's comprehensive triumph against Nepal has raised eyebrows in the cricketing world, particularly in India.

**Babar Azam's Stellar Form:**

Captain Babar Azam led from the front with an exceptional century. His well-calculated innings of 110 runs in 110 balls laid a strong foundation for Pakistan. Babar's remarkable strike rate and subsequent half-century in just 20 balls reflected his exceptional form and adaptability. Babar's innings, powered by four sixes, contributed significantly to Pakistan's total score of 151 runs.

                     

**Emerging Threat for India:**

Babar Azam's excellent form could pose a serious challenge for India. Additionally, Iftikhar Ahmed's impressive 109 runs off 71 balls marked his maiden century in One Day Internationals. Ahmed's performance has the potential to address Pakistan's middle-order concerns, showcasing his versatility in various cricketing departments.

**Bowling Brilliance and Spin Mastery:**

Pakistan's bowlers continued their splendid form in the match against Nepal. Shaheen Afridi's early breakthrough with two wickets in the first over set the tone. Naseem Shah, in his first over, took a crucial wicket, and Haris Rauf's stellar mid-over performance secured him two wickets as well. Pakistan's spinners, especially Shadab Khan, displayed their mettle, taking four wickets for 27 runs in 6.4 overs. Nawaz's contribution with one wicket in his two overs further bolstered Pakistan's bowling prowess.

**The Ominous Message for India:**

Pakistan's resounding victory against Nepal sends a strong message to India. This victory not only puts Pakistan in good stead but also serves as a warning to India. If Pakistan maintains this level of performance, the upcoming clash against India could be a closely contested battle, promising a thrilling encounter between the two cricketing giants.

**Emergence of Pakistan's All-Rounders:**

Pakistan's recent victory against Nepal was also a showcase of its all-round strength. Iftikhar Ahmed's century and his vital role in the middle order have undoubtedly eased the worries of Pakistan's team management. His ability to contribute both with the bat and the ball adds depth to Pakistan's lineup. Additionally, his century might just be the boost Pakistan needed to address their middle-order concerns, a facet that had been under scrutiny in recent times.

**Impressive Bowling Ensemble:**

The Pakistani bowling attack once again proved its mettle. Shaheen Afridi's knack for early breakthroughs and his fierce pace provide a promising start to the team. Naseem Shah's ability to extract wickets early in his spells showcased his potential to unsettle the opposition's top order. Haris Rauf's consistent performance and his knack for picking up crucial wickets during the middle overs adds a valuable dimension to Pakistan's bowling attack.

**Spin Wizardry and Indian Batting Challenges:**

The Asia Cup also witnessed Pakistan's spinners weaving their magic. Shadab Khan's ability to bamboozle batsmen and create pressure in the middle overs cannot be overlooked. His economy rate and wicket-taking ability are bound to pose a challenge for the Indian batting lineup. As Indian batsmen have struggled against quality spin in the past, Pakistan's spin attack might just be the X-factor that could make the difference in the high-stakes match.

**Setting the Stage for India vs. Pakistan Clash:**

With this convincing victory, Pakistan has set the stage for an intense showdown against India. The match between these arch-rivals on September 2nd promises to be a battle of nerves and skills. Pakistan's recent successes have boosted their confidence and put India on high alert. As both teams gear up for this monumental clash, the cricketing world braces for an epic showdown that could shape the course of the Asia Cup and set the tone for the future matches between these two cricketing giants.

**Conclusion: A Tale of Anticipation and Rivalry:**

The Asia Cup 2023 has already presented us with intriguing narratives and performances that have left cricket enthusiasts at the edge of their seats. Pakistan's triumphant march and their well-rounded approach have not only added excitement to the tournament but have also raised the stakes for the forthcoming clash with India. As the cricketing world holds its breath, we can only wait to witness whether Pakistan's recent surge will continue, or if India will rise to the challenge and reclaim their dominance on the field. The Asia Cup stage is set, and the cricketing drama is about to unfold! 

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ACC U19 Asia Cup 2024: Groups, full schedule and fixtures list, venue, squads, live streaming info

The ACC U19 Asia Cup is set to begin on November 29 in Dubai and Sharjah with eight nations, split in two groups of four, fighting for the title. Bangladesh is the defending champion of the 50-over tournament and has been grouped with Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Nepal in Group A. India is in Group B with Pakistan, Japan and United Arab Emirates. The top two teams from both groups will advance to…

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India Women vs Pakistan Women, 2nd Match Today, Group A

India Women Squad: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Deepti Sharma, Uma Chetry(w), S Sajana, Pooja Vastrakar, Shreyanka Patil, Arundhati Reddy, Radha Yadav, Dayalan Hemalatha, Renuka Thakur Singh, Richa Ghosh, Asha Sobhana

Pakistan Women Squad: Sidra Ameen, Gull Feroza, Tuba Hassan, Muneeba Ali(w), Nida Dar(c), Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Omaima Sohail, Diana Baig, Nashra Sandhu, Sadia Iqbal, Syeda Aroob Shah, Najiha Alvi, Tasmia Rubab, Iram Javed

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Afghanistan Unveils Squad for Asia Cup 2023

Afghanistan has declared its squad for the upcoming Asia Cup 2023, a tournament that Pakistan and Sri Lanka are set to co-host. The squad reflects a few changes from the team that recently competed in a three-game ODI series against Pakistan. Notable exclusions from the Asia Cup squad include Fareed Ahmad, Azmatullah Omarzai, Shahidullah Kamal, and Wafadar Momand. Unfortunately, Omarzai is…

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এশিয়া কাপ ২০২৩ সময়সূচী । ক্রিকেট এশিয়া কাপে বাংলাদেশ স্কোয়াড । ASIA CUP 2023

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Pakistan Announced their Squad For Asia Cup 2023

Pakistan Announced their Squad For Asia Cup 2023 #asiacup

Pakistan announced their squad for upcoming asia cup 2023. The squads are beginning to emerge for the 2023 Asia Cup, scheduled in Pakistan and Sri Lanka from August 30 to September 17. Co-host Pakistan is the first to unveil their squad. They are in Group A with India and Nepal. Here is the Pakistan Squad for Asia Cup 2023 Group A Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman,…

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BCCI Announced Squad for Womens Asia Cup 2023

BCCI announces India ‘A’ (Emerging) squad for ACC Emerging Women’s Asia Cup 2023The All India Women’s Selection Committee on Friday announced the India ‘A’ (Emerging) squad for the upcoming ACC Emerging Women’s Asia Cup 2023. India ‘A’ (Emerging) will begin their campaign on June 13, when they take on hosts Hong Kong.India ‘A’ (Emerging) Squad: Shweta Sehrawat (Captain), Soumya Tiwari…

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WPL 2023: Aaj ka IPL match kiska kiska hai

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Which driver would try to do a panenka in a penalty shootout

This happened because there were quite a few pen shootouts in the AFCON and asia cup ro16

Max Verstappen: has never even considered it. He’s already had enough of extra time. Absolutely no nonsense penalty taker. Just runs and whacks it.

Sergio Perez: no, he’s sensible. He might think about it in training he wouldn’t do it in the actual situation.

Lewis Hamilton: already did it once before when he was a young upstart but wouldn’t do it now

George Russell: no, and he will give you a whole PowerPoint about why trying to do a panenka is not Optimal

Charles Leclerc: wouldn’t be allowed to take a penalty. If he was still on the pitch he would probably be last to go if the shootout even got that far. They would put the goalkeeper ahead of him in the order. I’m sorry. Have you seen him try to kick a ball on a field? Only knows what a panenka is because of Carlos and Pierre talking about footy

Carlos Sainz: no. He’s probably tried it in training but he wouldn’t actually do it in a game. He does the jogging to the side thing before running up to take his penalty.

Fernando Alonso: yeah sure why not

Lance Stroll: no.

Lando Norris: not even in the squad. Can’t imagine this guy playing football in any universe. More likely to be filming from his phone in a hospitality box.

Oscar Piastri: no.

Pierre Gasly: brags to the whole world that he will. Doesn’t actually do it because he would crumble if he missed and the team didn’t get through. The type who takes small slow steps in the run up to the pen.

Esteban Ocon: might accidentally end up doing it and scoring

Alex Albon: wouldn’t do it and prefers not to be in the main 5 pen takers

Logan Sargeant: doesn’t know what a panenka is. Skies his penalty because he’s thinking of goal kicks in American “foot”“ball”

Kevin Magnussen: no.

Nico Hulkenberg: maybe.

Valterri Bottas: he can but he won’t.

Zhou Guanyu: not now…but one day he might

Yuki Tsunoda: yeah especially if someone pisses him off during the game

Daniel Ricciardo: yes because of a dare, actual results may vary

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Liam Lawson: his friends dare him to do it, he bails because he rather just score. And then they make a video about it.

Nicholas Latifi: actually can do it, has never been in a penalty shootout

Nico Rosberg: cringefail guy. He managed to do it once. He wasn’t the main 5 takers. But the shootout got to him. Got sold the next year but will literally keep bringing that moment up.

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Do you think korea has a good chance of winning the asian cup??

I always love seeing your posts, your tags always make me laugh!!

hi friend!! thank you so much, glad i can make you laugh 🫂🫶🏾

wrote out such a long response and then tumblr deleted it! but basically i said that it’s a very good question that has a very boring answer: it depends. i think korea will always be favourites going into the cup simply because they are one of the best footballing nations in asia and produce the best individual talent alongside japan. the talent in the squad right now is probably the highest it has been in years with sonny in fine form, minjae proving that he’s world class, kangin coming into his own, etc.

the problem as always with korea and them falling short of the mark is the ability to play as a team imho. bento was stubborn and klinsmann … i’m not sold on him. he consistently sticks to his wrong decisions with the starting xi (why lee kije. why.) and i’m unsure about what attacking patterns he coaches that actually lead to goals. there is this over reliance he has on players that play in europe, which is fine in principle because there will always be those star players in a nt but the best managers find a way to get the nt working like a team and not 11 players who have their individual talents trying to run the show by themselves. that being said, the motivation for this run is different. it’s quite possibly sonny’s last one and that’s something to focus on for all the squad. i hope korea wins it because it would be great after 64 years but i do think the performance today was a bit of a wake up call!

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India A vs Afghanistan A Dream11 Prediction, Emerging Teams Asia Cup: IND-A vs AFG-A predicted lineups, fantasy team, squad

India A will face Afghanistan A in the second semifinal of the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024 at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground on Friday. Here are the predicted lineups for the two teams: India A: Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma (c), Anuj Rawat (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Ayush Badoni, Ramandeep Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Rahul Chahar, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Rasikh Dar Salam, Aaqib Khan. Afghanistan A:…

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A record WNBL crowd of 7,681 at John Cain Arena fell silent as Lauren Jackson was assisted from the floor just 62 seconds into the game.

Just minutes earlier, the legendary Jackson was the final player announced to a raucous ovation. Like much of the last twelve months, the gravity of watching the all-time great go to work had drawn the eyes of many to the WNBL, perhaps for the first time.

After her bronze medal heroics at the Women's World Cup in Sydney with the national team last year, Jackson has played a major role in the Flyers campaign, averaging 14 points and five rebounds in a perhaps more than expected 21 minutes per game.

As if the fairy tale story needed any more juice, Jackson's trademark determination and will once again came to the fore, with the recent news that she has been carrying a fractured left foot through a large portion of the season.

"The great news is that it's not my broken foot, it's the other one," Jackson joked of the suspected serious Achilles injury.

With scans to come on Sunday morning, there is a genuine fear that this may be last chapter written of the remarkable comeback of Jackson, with just four games left on the Flyers schedule before the postseason.

"For me, I said I was on borrowed time," Jackson said. "It's hard, the way that I feel right now, I don't know. I'm pretty tough, but when I felt it, I felt something pop. I was just standing there, I said to the referee that I can't actually walk. Now I can't put any weight on it, whatever it is, I'll go get the scans in the morning and go from there. Hopefully it's just a stinger but I don't know."

"As soon as I felt it pop, I was like oh my god, that's my day over. I went to try and walk and I couldn't. The poor ref, she said she can't stop the game, I said that's fine, but I can't actually move so I don't know what to do."

Jackson's absence understandably took the air out the building for the first quarter, before the Flyers and Flames put on a show that came down to the final possession with Tiana Mangakahia knocking down a free-throw with 2.7 seconds left to help lift the Flames to the 68-67 road win.

The aura of Jackson may have brought a large portion of the crowd, but in the end, it was the high-quality play on the court that captivated those in the stands. The 26-point performance of Mangakahia in particular is of note, with the star guard recently included in the Opals extended squad in preparation for the 2023 Women's Asia Cup and 2024 Paris Olympics.

"I obviously had a lot of time to take in the atmosphere and the crowd was just incredible. That was so awesome to see that at a WNBL game, just to suit up was one of the greatest privileges," Jackson said.

"What a magnificent thing for women's basketball in this country. It's a domestic league, it's the premier national league but to have that kind of support in Melbourne was just incredible.

"I've said it a million times, but I think off the back of the World Cup and the visibility that basketball has had, it's really lifted the profile of our sport. Hopefully it's just the start of many games like this. It was great to be able to prove that it can be done and I'm pretty sure every single person in that stadium enjoyed that game."

Flyers head coach Cheryl Chambers set aside her disappointment for Jackson and the Flyers, to praise the Southside organisation for what was a spectacular advertisement for the league.

"There is some real talent across the whole league, so hopefully there's some people there that don't go every week that think they are going to get on board and support women's basketball," Chambers said.

"The other thing I'm proud about our organisation is, we probably weren't ready for this game, we could have asked if we were perfectly ready for this game, was it the perfect one to have against Sydney, all that kind of stuff. Gerry (Ryan) and Ian (Coutts) took a chance on women's basketball because we weren't one hundred percent ready and I think sometimes we wait until we're one hundred percent and it's too late. It's an awesome thing for women's sport."

Postgame, Jackson took part in a presentation on court, before remarkably presenting to the media for a press conference that she could and should have been expected to skip. Shifting between crutches and a wheelchair for comfort, understandably in pain, Jackson continued to lead the discussion for the growth of the women's game in Australia.

"You've got to take risks to take that next step and evolve and grow. As a league, we're doing that," Jackson explained. "As a team in the league, I think Southside is definitely pushing those barriers and trying to set the standard.

"That's what we did tonight. Gerry and Ian and our whole team should be so proud of what our front office was able to do, to bring that crowd out here tonight. I'm very, very proud to be a Flyer."

It would be difficult and near on impossible to imagine another athlete of Jackson's status in any sport presenting in this manner given the difficult circumstances, though, in some ways it shouldn't have been a surprise. This is who LJ is. A class act.

"Nobody could have scripted this last year, it's been completely insane. Then how ironic, how ironic (is this), it is what it is," she said with a smile and a shake of the head.

Claiming another medal for the national team could have been the perfect swansong for Jackson, but her work was not yet done, with her presence in the WNBL a delight for basketball fans young and old. It would be foolish and premature to write Jackson off given what has been witnessed over the last 12 months, but in a bittersweet way, if Saturday night is ultimately the last time Jackson suits up in a professional environment, doing so in front of a record-breaking crowd would be fitting for a legendary legacy.

All Jackson has done is create history since she first burst onto the scene more than two decades ago as a teenage star. Saturday night at John Cain Arena was no different.

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BCCI Discloses India Asia Cup Squad 2023, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer Returns

BCCI Discloses Team India Asia Cup 2023 Squad today. KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer Returns on the team. Tilak Varma is also included but Sanju Samson is there as backup. The Board of Control for Cricket in India also known as BCCI, disclosed the 17 men Asia Cup 2023 squad on Monday 21st of August. Ace batsmen KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer have returned to the Indian after missing a lot of cricket due to…