Arthur Crabtree wrote:I'd have them. Get an idea of local conditions. It may be that a couple of games isn't really enough though. Is it a coincidence that tours have been cut down and away sides are winning fewer series? The better side will still win, and you'll never get the sort of acclimatisation that the home team has, but it's better than nothing. Players say that nets can't replicate the time spent in the middle. Some teams are probably wasting these games though.
I would as well though although technically India are not using nets they got a wam up game but just not any Aussie players.
English lions/Loughborough generally do the same thing abroad since they can't always find 11 players to get a proper game so they just have squad game as warm ups and trainings at tours.
You do make a good point about teams wasting games though which might explains teams using 15 players at warm up games so they get the most out of it especially when sides only have one or two games and not like the old days of 7-8.
It is more of what India are doing/ what English lions do as well do they not count as good preparation especially if the warm up game offered doesn't really give what India are looking for remember they only got 2-4 training days for odi because of the late test schedule taking days away from them.
Just that people in twitter assumed England will do well because they had 2 warm up games and India none but they didn't really understand England need games due to no cricket since 23 dec and none in Australia with India having 4 test and pretty much acclimatised already and do they really need a warm up game to a warm up odi competition, where they don't really have time to a meaningless warm up game against crap opposition.
Just thought it was stupid people correlating warm up games to wins and using England and India prep for the odi tri series.
Although if England do win/beat India in the 2 games we all know why it was the 2 warm up games
Probably end the convo now but quite funny India fans thinking England have great preparation to the tri series when English fans probably don't think 2 warm up games will make a difference to what they do and bit confused to why anyone thinks India needs one game after 4 test matches and that to in a very busy period where they still got 6 warmup games till World Cup possibly 7 and then 6 group stages matches before the quarters where the real World Cup games start.