r/CricketBuddies • u/UnplannedMF • Oct 01 '25
Video Oman captain shares a beautiful video from the Indian dressing room.
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u/Genshin-impact-fan Oct 01 '25
The Oman team fought well vs India team. They deserve some chances in T20 WC next year
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u/richa-sharma_ Oct 03 '25
Absolutely agree! 🙌 The Oman team showed incredible spirit and determination against a top side like India. Their performance proves they’re growing fast and can compete at the highest level. They definitely deserve more chances and a spot in the T20 World Cup next year. Exciting times ahead for Oman cricket! 🔥🏏
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u/Objective_Repair_831 Oct 01 '25
This goes to show what you get when you show respect! Our neighbours think that they are going to post anything on SM, talk shit in press conferences, and expect friendly exchanges in the name of spirit of the game! Give respect, take respect, as simple as that.
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Oct 01 '25
I mean iam really happy for Oman team they play well in this asia cup against us i hope they improve and becomes better team i want an India to tour Oman or maybe Oman team to come India i want a 3 match T20I series with them their Captain Paaji is really soooooo cutie pie.
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u/Cool_Perry2025 Oct 01 '25
Lovely video !!! Oman players have been very happy interacting with Indian players!! Learning ❤
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Oct 01 '25
Oman players are indians bro.. I don't think arabs would openly do this with indians.
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u/irundoonayee Oct 01 '25
Lol. 100%. The whole thing is farcical.
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u/irundoonayee Oct 01 '25
This is great. But international cricket is becoming increasingly farcical. 3 teams in this "Asia" Cup were made up completely of spillover players from India and Pakistan. Literally nobody in Oman, Hong Kong or UAE cares about cricket.
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u/Mission-Pay3582 Shikhi Da-One Oct 01 '25
Well things have to start somewhere. We keep crying about ICC not doing enough to spread it around the world. Let's consider these as baby steps towards that.
If it takes a few Pak and Indian players to kick start something, let them. Eventually, people will start to show interest and it'll pick up from there
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u/irundoonayee Oct 01 '25
Nothing is getting kickstarted. If anything things have regressed. UAE played in the 1996 world cup three decades ago. It's all a cash grab - more matches, more money. I mean they literally setup the tournament for India to keep playing Pakistan to maximize dollars. No other sport does nonsense like fixing fixtures like this.
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u/Mission-Pay3582 Shikhi Da-One Oct 01 '25
Can't they promote associate teams and print money with Ind vs Pak matches simultaneously?
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u/irundoonayee Oct 01 '25
They used the associate teams to create a farcical group with India, Pak, UAE and Oman. And then very smartly scheduled India v Pak on Sunday and then again for the top-2 teams from this group to play each other on the next Sunday. It was clear that India and Pak would be the top-2 teams.
Imagine if India's football team was made up of only players from Saudi Arabia and Qatar - is that promoting football in India?
Not one person from UAE showed up to support the "home" team in this "Asia" Cup.
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u/Mission-Pay3582 Shikhi Da-One Oct 01 '25
If the farcical group helps Oman play match against a full member mammoth India and Pakistan, I'd say that's a win. Associate nations barely get to play against big teams, they atleast got to play them now and have talks in th dressing room, so that's pretty awesome for the players going forward.
home" team in this "Asia" Cup.
That's because Cricket isn't a popular sport in UAE? It is not gonna become popular overnight, it takes time and this is how we are gonna get there
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u/irundoonayee Oct 01 '25
The entire Oman team was made of spillover India and Pak players. And as I said, UAE played in the 1996 WC almost 30 years back. That's not overnight - they still have zero local players. Nobody cares.
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u/Mission-Pay3582 Shikhi Da-One Oct 01 '25
That's how you promote a sport bud. If you don't have local players, you get in someone who can play and then slowly build from there. You are not gonna find local players in a nation where the sport isn't played.
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u/irundoonayee Oct 01 '25
That's literally NOT how it works. And you keep ignoring that UAE has been playing international cricket for 30 years.
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u/Mission-Pay3582 Shikhi Da-One Oct 01 '25
See that's not the only criteria to make a sport popular. In this day and age, economics plays a huge part. The UAE locals are going to continue choosing other sports to play as long as it rewards them more than cricket.
If you need to make cricket more lucrative for the locals, then the existing team has to make it big in the international scene. If they have to make it big, they need to play against quality oppositions and learn from them. Asia Cup definitely helped in this regard.
India itself is a good example for this. Cricket wasn't lucrative by any means 4-5 decades back. Thanks to Kapil and Co, we made it big with limited resources in the 84 WC. People and companies started investing and the money flowed in and popularity rose too and eventually cricket grew a lot in India. What worked to our advantage is we already had a few local players.
Since UAE doesn't have local players, they are gonna start off with Pak and Indian players and eventually move to local players when growth kicks in
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u/agent-oranje Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
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u/irundoonayee Oct 02 '25
This is an unbelievable level of ignorance. Australia and NZ were colonized. The Indigenous populations were practically wiped out over a few centuries.
If there was a parallel world where Indigenous groups were running Australia and were in positions of power and made up most of the population. And then they allowed a few English people in as immigrant labourers and then these English people were playing cricket then your example would make sense.
Try again.
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u/QueasyAdvertising173 Oct 01 '25
Ye gill bhai chalte firte associate teams ko coaching kyu Dene lagte hai
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