महिला एशिया कप में भारत की धमाकेदार जीत, पाकिस्तान को 7 विकेट से रौंदा

India vs Pakistan Women’s Asia Cup: महिला एशिया कप में भारत ने पाकिस्तान के खिलाफ शानदार जीत दर्ज कर एक बार फिर अपना दबदबा साबित किया है। मुकाबले में भारतीय टीम ने पाकिस्तान को 7 विकेट से करारी शिकस्त दी। टॉस जीतकर पहले बल्लेबाजी करने उतरी पाकिस्तान की टीम भारतीय गेंदबाजों के सामने पूरी तरह बेबस नजर आई और महज 55 रन पर ढेर हो गई। इसके बाद भारत ने बिना ज्यादा परेशानी के लक्ष्य हासिल कर लिया। इस जीत के साथ भारतीय खिलाड़ियों ने गेंदबाजी और बल्लेबाजी दोनों में शानदार प्रदर्शन दिखाया।

A question is doing the rounds as to why the BCCI should send its best team to the Asian Games when the logistics aren’t the best at the moment. Players don’t have the kind of rooms they are used to and might even have to share if things aren’t sorted in the next few days. The question is pertinent because cricket is used to a certain degree of leverage in India.

Having said that, the BCCI should, and will, send its best team to Nagoya. India is on the path to using sport as soft power and is a host for the 2030 Commonwealth Games while mounting a bid for the 2036 Olympic Games. If you don’t send your best team to the Asian Games, your bid falls flat because the signal it sends is that you aren’t serious about multi-sport events. somethingsdifferent.biz

The argument over rooms and logistics is a non-starter in front of the world. Traditionally, athletes have always celebrated living in the Olympic or Asian Games village, where the standard of accommodation is, at best, that of a three-star hotel. The experience is what matters, and no athlete can expect five-star accommodation in a Games village. And yet everyone wants that experience.

Imagine a Vaibhav Sooryavanshi meeting Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz at the LA28 Olympic Village and having a chat about handling pressure. That experience outweighs any logistical hurdles, and such experiences are only possible at multi-sport events. It is precisely for this reason that logistics will never take precedence when it comes to events like these.

For Indian players, it is not the best situation to be in. They could and should have had it better had the ACC, under Mohsin Naqvi, moved early and booked hotels. There were hotels available a year ago, yet nothing was done. But now there isn’t much that can be salvaged. Nagoya doesn’t have more hotels to offer, and it is a take-it-or-leave-it option. Indians will have to make do with what’s there, and the BCCI will know that, for the sake of India’s pitch to use sport as soft power, sending the best team to the Asian Games is a necessity.

Finally, if you ask Roger Federer, perhaps the greatest tennis player ever, he will tell you that one of the highest points of his career was the 2008 Olympic doubles gold medal he won with Stan Wawrinka. He ranks it higher than many of his Grand Slam wins. To win a multi-sport event for your country and see the national flag go up when you are presented with the gold medal is a very different experience for any sportsperson. The players will want it much more than the comforts of a hotel room if it comes to a trade-off.

The situation, to be clear, is far from ideal because of the mess-up by the ACC. At the same time, when has life ever been ideal? In a world that is not ideal, it is a small price to pay when a gold medal is at stake.

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Somewhere in November 2010, Sibsankar Roy and Deeraj Jadhav of Assam were frustrating Bengal at Eden Gardens with a resolute stand in the Ranji Trophy. It seemed as if the duo would take their side to safe waters. At that juncture, a debutant, Mohammed Shami, burst through the opening pair by prising them out LBW and bowled.

Time flies. The same four seasons — summer, monsoon, autumn and winter — have taken their turns 16 times. And just like the permanence of those changing seasons, Shami’s passion has remained the same. In the semifinal of the Duleep Trophy, he took five wickets to play a part in East Zone’s victory over Central Zone.

At the age of 36, he may not have touched his peak speeds, but he still bowled with a fair amount of venom and found nifty movement. Shami will play his 100th first-class game, when East Zone take on South Zone in the Duleep Trophy final in Chennai. Ahead of the game, He was also felicitated by CAB’s treasurer, Sanjay Das, and the rest of the East Zone teammates.

Shami, one of the stalwarts of India’s 50-over World Cup campaign in 2023, however, has mostly found himself in the wilderness since his return from a serious ankle and heel injury in 2024-25.

Ishan Kishan, the East Zone captain, opened up on the 64-Test veteran’s unremitting belief to make a comeback into the Indian side in a pre-match presser.

“I feel age is just a number,” Kishan said. “If he is working hard it doesn’t matter – he has been doing so well. Having him in our team gives us a bit more confidence, when you have such bowlers in your team who can get you wickets and especially looking at Shami bhai this season, his intensity, his energy has been very different.

“It has been three years since that [2023] World Cup [when he was in excellent form]; it is hard when you are not regularly playing for the Indian team and to again have that same kind of motivation for your domestic games, it is tough. But I feel I see that hunger in him because who better than me can judge about hunger right now?” Kishan smiled, perhaps thinking about his own redoubtable comeback.

Kishan continued by observing how Shami is also sharing insights and helping him in relation to laying out plans and strategies in the ongoing Duleep Trophy.

“I think he has that hunger and that motivation right now. He wants to do that comeback, he wants to be part of the Indian squad again and which you can see in him, when he is trying to help me also when I’m leading the side… he is trying to come to me, give me options of what you can do right now.”

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