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Oh, raining!

Arthur Crabtree wrote:I take it this is on TV in India Adi?

Yes Arthur, it is on Star Sports on TV as well as Hotstar for mobile phone subscribers.

Play resumed but India could not pick wickets. Target was revised to 170 in 46 overs. Bangladesh 170/7. Deserved to win today.

Well done Bangladesh.

I assume that this will be big news at home for them. Hopefully we will see growth in Bangladeshi Cricket as a result.

meninblue wrote:

Arthur Crabtree wrote:I take it this is on TV in India Adi?

Yes Arthur, it is on Star Sports on TV as well as Hotstar for mobile phone subscribers.

That's a proper crickt loving country when they have under19s on.

Pleased for BD, hope it gives them a boost. Not sure it ever happens though. WI won it a few years ago.

it was on Kayo - so I assume Foxsports as well. Kayo is Fox's streaming service.

Id be upset with the DL method as India. BD needed 35 odd runs with the tail in, the best thing they would have wanted was 10 runs taken off the target when the RR was zero factor in the game. Its a huge mental bonus to see those runs disappear. I think the commentator said that both teams were 170-7 after the same amount of balls, so it seems hardly fair to me that one team won.

Also, I cant comment on the India innings as I didnt watch it, it might be something happened earlier that I missed, but the Bangladesh players in the second innings were a disgrace to their shirt. The throw back at the head of the batsman should have resulted in the bowlers instant ejection, and the continued OTT in your face stuff got boring quickly. And then at the end the players running on the field to scream in Indian faces.... zero respect.

sussexpob wrote:Also, I cant comment on the India innings as I didnt watch it, it might be something happened earlier that I missed, but the Bangladesh players in the second innings were a disgrace to their shirt. The throw back at the head of the batsman should have resulted in the bowlers instant ejection, and the continued OTT in your face stuff got boring quickly. And then at the end the players running on the field to scream in Indian faces.... zero respect.

very true - I was surprised that the punishments seemed to be meted out almost equally, to me it did seem like the Bangla players were a bit too hyped up

Cant really fault the Indian lads, if someone had done that to me I'd have belted someone. There is quite clearly players going out their way at the end to stir up a problem, several BD players run straight at Indian players clearly on purpose. Of course in this situation if you act like that, you get a response. And it wasnt just at the end, the BD players spent the whole game seemingly acting like that. Put a bad mark on the whole of the tournament, and to a man the team should have been punished for bringing the game into disrepute.

The ICC priorities must be questioned. Ravi Bishnoi got pinned for a send off to a batsman that, having re-watched it, barely merits a second glance; but under the rules he was charged with language or actions that were likely to merit a reaction from the batter. In the first over the game, a BD bowler narrowly misses what was clearly a throw back at the batsman (te throw is head high and just misses).... are you telling me that isnt an action that might lead to problems? How on god's green earth can you charge one and not the other? As I said, if I was umpire he'd be hauled off the field and his game ended. We cant accept that at any level.

But what are the ICC saying? Are they saying an action that endangers a batsmans life (a full bloodied baseball throw into the head has serious consequences) will not be punished, but tell someone to go away in harsher terms and they will be banned?

Nonsense. Leaves a very bad taste in the mouth to see this from the youth coming through. Im left in no doubt which side made these issues.