The men in blue are scheduled to play the Asia Cup 2018 soon after the ongoing England tour. The tournament is scheduled to be starting from September 15 and the Indian cricket team is scheduled to be playing two back-to-back matches against the qualifying team and Pakistan on 18 and 19 respectively. The BCCI is angry over the schedule and has called it mindless. However, former Australian cricketer, Dean Jones doesn’t find anything wrong in it and reckons that the cricketers are extremely fit nowadays and they shouldn’t complain.

Even Virender Sehwag had lashed out at the organizers and asked Team India to boycott the competition. The startling thing in the schedule is only India is playing 2 matches on consecutive days while all other teams will enjoy a significant break between their games. Pakistan, before facing India, will be coming off a two-day break which is good enough to recover.

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But the former Australian cricketer is of the opinion that there shouldn’t be any problem. He also recalled the time when he had to play for 11 days in a row thrice during one of their England tours. As quoted in Times of India, he said, “We used to play a lot of back-to-back one-day matches in our time, so why are the players complaining now? They play five-day Test matches. I remember on an England tour, we played 11 days in a row three times. I know it’s a bit warm, but that’s why they get the big bucks these days.”

Dean Jones was confident of the fitness of the players as he added, “I have got no problem (in India playing two days consistently). Fatigue might be a problem, but these guys are athletes and unbelievably fit. They will be fine. I could say this, no one will die.”

The format of the Asia Cup has been changed this time around according to which the arch-rivals will meet at least twice. If they manage to qualify for the final, then it will happen after a long time that the two teams will lock horns three times in a period of 12 days.