{"id":2257,"date":"2023-09-09T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/asia-cup-2023-former-cricketer-angry-at-pakistan-india-super-four-fixture\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T14:39:24","slug":"asia-cup-2023-former-cricketer-angry-at-pakistan-india-super-four-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/asia-cup-2023-former-cricketer-angry-at-pakistan-india-super-four-fixture\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2023: Former cricketer angry at Pakistan-India Super Four fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Arch-rivals Pakistan and India will meet tomorrow in Colombo, Sri Lanka their Super Four clash of the Asia Cup. It is the only fixture to have a reserve day as heavy rains are predicted in their second encounter of the regional competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/span><\/strong><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asian Cricket Council announced that if the rain stops the fixture on Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/asia-cup-2023-pakistan-v-india-super-four-match-gets-reserve-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">match will continue from where it left off<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Present Update from RPICS, Colombo:<br \/>The weather is nice and pleasant, and we\u2019re ready for a baller of a game tomorrow! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AsiaCup2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AsiaCup2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HxHtGKyz9l\">pic.twitter.com\/HxHtGKyz9l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AsianCricketCouncil (@ACCMedia1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACCMedia1\/status\/1700064865543430395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This format has irked former India cricketer Venkatesh Prasad. He agreed to a fan\u2019s post on X, formerly known as Twitter, in which he said broadcasters only care about the Pakistan-India match and organizers creating a format in which the teams play each other on multiple occasions in the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some reports claiming that there will be a reserve day only for the game between India &amp; Pakistan scheduled on 10th SEPT. If it turns out true, then it is just shameful for cricket.<\/p>\n<p>They used to indirectly give us the direction that the broadcasters only care about IND-PAK in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saif Ahmed \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde9 (@saifahmed75) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saifahmed75\/status\/1700055151799939238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Venkatesh Pradesh, retweeting the post, hoped that the match wouldn\u2019t take place at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf true, this is absolute shamelessness this,\u201d Venkatesh Prasad tweeted. \u201cThe organisers have made a mockery and it is unethical to have a tournament with rules being different for the other two teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the name of justice, will only be fair if it is abandoned the first day, may it rain harder on the second day and these malicious plans not succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If true this is absolute shamelessness this. The organisers have made a mockery and it is unethical to have a tournament with rules being different for the other two teams.<br \/>In the name of justice, will only be fair if it is abandoned the first day, may it rain harder on the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GPQGmdo1Zx\">https:\/\/t.co\/GPQGmdo1Zx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkateshprasad\/status\/1700197914302362010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention that there is a forecast for heavy rains and thunderstorms in Colombo throughout the Super Four stage.<\/p>\n<p>The group stage encounter between Pakistan and India was abandoned due to rain.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will be heading into the fixture with an advantage as they comprehensively beat Bangladesh by seven wickets in their first Super Four match in Lahore on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arch-rivals Pakistan and India will meet tomorrow in Colombo, Sri Lanka their Super Four clash of the Asia Cup. It is the only fixture to have a reserve day as heavy rains are predicted in their second encounter of the regional competition. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv\u00a0 The Asian Cricket Council announced that if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pakistan-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}