Investing in USA Junior Cricket

Lets say that all the public middle and high schools in the following SF Bay Area cities were to be given a cricket atheletics program costing $50K per year each: Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Campbell, Milpitas, Cupertino and Sunnyvale. That would be 24 [...]

The Zimbabwe Crisis

Before I start writing anything, I would like to state that the game in Zimbabwe has already gone back by 20 years. If at the momment, they cant even produce a team which will stand up to teams from Scotland and Ireland, then things are really bad from a Test Playing nation point of view.
Zimbabwe [...]

Regionals format: Cup or Leagues?

Does the Asian System fast track a number of cricket teams in a shorter span of time, or is the European league Structure better?. I tend to agree with the latter. In my opinion, the former actually manages to impede the development process in some promising countries. I will give an example….. of Nepal.
 In the last 3-4 [...]

Minnows in 2006

This information is available on the web in a haphazard manner, so I thought I will make an entry in my blog and also keep on updating it as new information comes out. It will become a collection of the schedule of the minnows for 2006, and it will become easier to track their performances.
January
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To invest or not to invest

There is one question that has always played at the back of my mind, but I have been unable to figure out the right answer. How does the ICC choose which country to invest in over another?
Here is the dilema. The ICC does not have unlimited funding to sponsor development activities in emerging countries. In [...]

Ireland and Scotland: No looking back

It seems to me that Ireland and Scotland Cricket teams are on a ‘no turning back’ road as far as the improvement and populairty of the sport in their respective countries is concerned.
First of all, these countries have been playing cricket for ages, perhaps 100-150 years. So the history is already there. They have not [...]

ACC Trophy and Asia Cup Qualification

The ICC-Asia region can generally be divided into 4 sub regions as follows
Middle East: Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia.This region can be expanded to incorporate other countries when they start playing cricket in the future, i.e. countries like Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon.
South Asia: Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, China, Maldives.This region [...]