Asia Cup

[m_vaughan]

Sri Lanka. Muralitharan will win it single-handedly for them, though he will be well supported by Vaas. Also I reckon the great man Jayasuriya to score lots of runs in this series.

But Murali is the man!!

 

[Sami]

I'm an Aussie but my background is Pakistani since Australia isn't competing I'd say Pakistan would win cause they got a good record in wining matches in Srilanka

 

[Rangeela]

Pakistan Squad

Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Shoaib Malik, Yousuf Youhana, Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), Abdul Razzaq, Moin Khan (wk), Younis Khan, Mohammad Sami, Shabbir Ahmed, Shoaib Akhtar, Imran Nazir, Danish Kaneria, Naved-ul-Hasan.


India Squad

Sourav Ganguly (capt), Rahul Dravid (wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Parthiv Patel (wk), Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Irfan Pathan, Ashish Nehra.

 

[Ritwik]

I think India should have not dropped Agarkar. They have only one right handed pacer now, Balaji, who while impressive in Pakistan, is not all that experienced.

My feeling is that India will win, with Sri Lanka as the runners up.

 

[Rangeela]

Sri Lanka Squad

Marvan Atapattu (capt), Avishka Gunawardene, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Saman Jayantha, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thilina Kandamby, Upul Chandana, Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Lasith Malinga, Ferveez Maharoof.

 

[jwalits]

India have the strongest team on paper, but SL at home is always a tough opposition and of course Pakistan is very unpredictable and with a new coach in Bob Woolmer they are very capable team and always rise to the occasion against Ind and SL, so it will be very interesting tournament.

I'll go with India..

 

[freddieflintoff]

Sri Lanka to win it i guess

 

[duffarama]

India will probably win, but I wouldn't mind Hong Kong winning it though.

 

[Rangeela]

Hong Kong Squad

*Rahul Sharma
Manoj Cheruparambil
Ilyas Gul
Tim Smart
Tabarak Dar
Alexander French
Najeeb Amar
Roy Lamsam
Nasir Hameed
Sher Lama
Khalid Khan
Nadeem Ahmed
Afzaal Haider
Graeme Jardine


UAE Squad

*Khuram Khan
Arshad Ali
Abdul Rehman
Ali Asad Abbas
Asghar Ali
Asim Saeed
Fahad Usman
Mohammad Tauqeer
Mohammad Fawad
Naeemuddin
Ramveer Rai
Rizwan Ahmed
Sameer Zia
Syed Maqsood

 

[obzorbulosis]

Do any of you guys think that Hong Kong or UAE will eventually appear in the Cricket world cup. I mean, USA arn't far off either.

 

[duffarama]

I think one of them will get a chance soon.
USA have been great recently and maybe they should get the chance to step up to the next level.
From Duffarama.

 

[brad352]

Did you see what Davison did to them in the ICC Intercontinental Cup? He took 8/61 and 9/76, made 84 and single handedly led Canada to victory, and he's not even a top class international player

 

[duffarama]

That's because Davison was playing against minnow teams.

 

[Rangeela]

1st Match Bangladesh v Hong Kong

Toss: Hong Kong

Bangladesh 221/9 (Omar 68) (Gul 3/46)
Hong Kong 105 (45.2 OV) (Razzaq 3/17)

Result: Bangladesh won by 116 runs

Points: Bangladesh 6, Hong Kong 0

Man of the Match: Javed Omar

 

[freddieflintoff]

If the ICC has its way then all of these minnow teams (UAE, USA, Hong Kong, Canada, etc.) will play in the next world cup.....will reduce the number of competitive matches.