DUBAI – Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India has once again shownits influence in the matters of the International Cricket Council (ICC) andAsian Cricket Council (ACC) by getting the already announced Asia Cupschedule changed.
India is playing as a host and as per the new schedule, India will play allof its games in Dubai. An interesting thing is that the ACC has alreadyannounced the upcoming fixtures, assuming that India will be the number 1team in Group A while placing Afghanistan as the Group B topper; if theprevious fixture had any meaning at all.
As per the previous schedule, Group A winner was to play Group B runner-upon September 21. However, the latest schedule shows a game between India(Group A winner) and Bangladesh (Group B runner-up) at Dubai.
Now, even if India doesn’t manage to win Group A, it will still play allits matches in Dubai which is beyond understanding. No matter who winsGroup B, Bangladesh will play India on September 21. What this means isthat there is no relevance of the group standings. India will play thematches as Group A winner and the same goes for Afghanistan.
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This also means that Indian team won’t have to travel to play any of itsmatches even if it reaches the final whie other teams will have to travelto Abu Dhabi and return to Dubai to play India.
