Its just over a month to go now, 33 days to be exact. The 14th edition of Asia Cup ODI tournament starts in UAE from September 15, 2018 when Bangladesh takes on Sri Lanka in tournament opener. This year’s tournament will feature defending champions India (who won the 2016 T20 edition), Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and a sixth team which will come from winning the qualifiers to be held in Malaysia from August 29 to September 06 and featuring 6 teams.
The teams are to be divided into two groups with arch rivals Pakistan and India being joined with the team from qualifiers in group A. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will make up group B. Top two teams from each group are to progress to what will be round of Super Four (different than traditional semi-final). Each team will play every other team once on round robin basis with top two teams (point based) to compete for the trophy in Final on September 28, 2018 in Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
The tournament will be a major litmus test being a multinational tournament coming before next year’s world cup.
We will try to follow the matches, games and team discussion here in this thread. Let us all try to keep it civil and not violate forum rules in our hyper excited state of mind (at times). May the best team win (I mean Pakistan
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