Asia Cup

[Carbine Chaos]

 

[evdo1706]

Deshi players are crying

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Sounds callous, but they should be.

Never easy in a final, but they needed 19 off 15 with 4 wickets left. Shouldn't have lost it from there.

 

[Hue_Jars]

Congrats Pakistan - great to see them becoming a real force again.

Unlucky Bangals. Heartbreaking loss for their nation. But they can build from this.

 

[Santana]

Pakistan win by 2 runs, but Bangladesh will go out as the champions from this tournament. Hope they can manage to keep up this level in the future.

No, I'm pretty sure it's Pakistan. Winning the final does that for you.

 

[Cooldude]

IanW's on suicide watch after that

 

[evdo1706]

No, I'm pretty sure it's Pakistan. Winning the final does that for you.

OK let me rephrase it, they didn't win the cup but they won our hearts

 

[IanW]

IanW's on suicide watch after that

Not even close. Yeah, coulda shoulda woulda, Rajib being useless as a death bowler, too many dot balls ... but at the end of the day, we go out of a tournament beating India and Sri Lanka, and losing twice to Pakistan.

I'll take that.

Of course, Im not expecting any of the rich countries to invite Bangladesh to play cricket against them, because its not like developing the game outside places it was played a hundred years ago is important or anything (and the same applies to Holland, Ireland, Scotland and so on).

 

[dajesmac]

Well done Bangladesh on getting so close, but you have to say Pakistan were the best team overall, only getting outdone by a miraculous knock from one Virat Kohli. Great tournament!