No Indian team for Asian Games

[King Cricket]

And people are slamming India left, right, centre for being money minded and not sending a team to the Asian Games.

Just the news channels.

 

[LongLegs?]

No bigge, I don't even remember the team that won the last one.

Pretty sure it's the first time that cricket's been included in the Asian Games.

 

[King Cricket]

If the Indian team has one iota of patriotism left in it, it should participate in the Asiad.
The money minded players have again chosen cash over commitment.
There's no money in the Asian games, only medals- therefore our players are not interested.

These are the lines which are being flashed all over the media. Alright, I understand that people are frustrated out there because of the fact that we are not going to the Asian Games, but for Christ's sake, do these channels really have to sensationalize issues ALL the time? It's so bloody disgusting!

 

[SciD]

Who cares. Send hockey players as cricket team. They will win 1 game at least in something.

 

[techfreak]

Who cares. Send hockey players as cricket team. They will win 1 game at least in something.

Good joke !! Scion_sid
I think our Indian Cricket team is not very bad. They are lacking in confidence levels. Many times overconfidence !! (In case of Bangladesh or Zimbabwe).
Ok. Now question is of Asian games. I think our team is very busy in other tours so BCCI decided not to send our team at Asian Games.
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[techfreak]

Good joke scion sid !!
Our team is not very bad in cricket yaar. I think our cricket team is busy in other tours so BCCI decided not to send Cricket team to Asian games.

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[aditya123]

wtf is Asian games?

Just because you stay in the US and do not care about certain things does not mean that the Asian Games is one of the biggest multi-sport events after the Olympics and the Commonwealth games. If you don`t know of it, its not because it is insignificant but becasue of your ignorance.

 

[LongLegs?]

I'm with aditya here. If you ask many players if they'd want to win an Asian Games medal, as long as it didn't clash with a major ICC trophy, I'm sure most of them will want to have that opportunity.

Not to mention, Pakistan are sending a second string team because they have international commitments at the same time too.

 

[AngryPixel]

Who cares. Send hockey players as cricket team. They will win 1 game at least in something.

Gosh Thats why we've been losing in hockey. We were sending our best cricketers to play hockey. Please bring them back in Indian cricket team...

 

[Prithvi]

Just because you stay in the US and do not care about certain things does not mean that the Asian Games is one of the biggest multi-sport events after the Olympics and the Commonwealth games. If you don`t know of it, its not because it is insignificant but becasue of your ignorance.

+1


And for me, it would have been fine if India would participate in these games. Cause it'd have been like a dress rehearsal for the ICC CWC 2011.

 

[sohum]

Ironic given that India, along with Pakistan, were one of the bigger proponents behind including it in the first place.

Having cricket in the Asian games is the first logical step if we ever want to see cricket at the Olympics (whether that is a good idea is of course another discussion, entirely). This would have been a good opportunity for the BCCI to show that the Asian member countries that play cricket professionally actually want that to happen.