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Asia Cup is to played from 15th to 28th September with 6 teams and 2 stages. But could the scheduling and format have been much better? The Schedule for Asia Cup 2018 has been finally announced. The tournament is to be held between 15th September to 28th September between 5 Teams in India, Pakistan, SriLanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and 1 team coming through Qualifier. Qualifiers will also be held in September prior to the main tournament and the participating teams will be Oman, Nepal, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. This time tournament will again revert back to ODI format after it was played in T20 format in the year 2016 in sight of match practice for World T20 Championship. Main Tournament itself will be in 2 stages with both rounds to be held in round robin format. In 1st round, teams will be divided into 2 groups with 1st group consisting of India, Pakistan and a team from Qualifier and 2 group of Bangladesh, SriLanka and Afghanistan. 2 teams will qualify from

While earlier it was believed that it was a thumb fracture that is keeping Wriddhiman Saha out of 5-test series against England, now it is reported that it is actually a posterosuperior labral tear on his right shoulder that will now require a surgery and a long rehabilitation. Saha has been the 1st choice Wicket Keeper for Indian Team since the retirement of MS Dhoni from test matches in the start of 2015. But the relapse of the shoulder injury will now keep him out of the game for upto 4 months. He was ruled out of the 3rd test in South Africa in January this year due to a hamstring injury. Later in the month, when he reported in NCA, he complained of pain in his right shoulder. Ultrasound then confirmed a tear in the shoulder. An ultrasound guided  steroid injection was given to him and followed by a rehabilitation program. Palying for SRH in IPL, on May 7th against RCB, he fell on his shoulder and was injured again in right shoulder. A second injection was given to him resul

Virat Kohli finally loses a Bi-lateral ODI series, a trend started since beating England in the start of 2017, same series before which Dhoni relinquished the captaincy and Kohli was finally made captain in all the 3 formats. Since then Indian Team has been riding high on success winning 7 bilateral series in succession(they have won 2 more series prior to that under Dhoni's captaincy). This series was also started with at 8 wicket drubbing of English team currently ranked no 1 in ODI rankings. But whatever went right in that 1st ODI didn't work in next 2 ODIs. Top order failed and the spinners were dealt with relative ease. Although this is not the 1st time that India's middle order looked worse and bowler were toothless on a flat pitch. Everyone remember Champions Trophy 2017 final where both these things happened but loss against Sri Lanka in group stages was also equally worrisome where bowlers failed to defend a 320 total. Similarly, that 1 loss against South Africa