ICC’s ‘Events’

The ICC has for the last 2-3 years been desperately looking for ICC ‘events’ which can generate some money for it, so that it can go ahead and improve it’s development program. The world cup is obviously their cash cow, but there is also the biannual Champions Trophy. Last year, they added the Super Series [...]

Cricket in Japan

The Kanto Cricket league in Japan has the following teams playing in them, along with the total number of players, the total number of Japanese players, and the league ranking as of end of 2005.   
 

Club
Total
Members
Japanese
Members
Jap.
Member
%
Rank

Milenium
27
22
81%
1

Tokyo Wombats
22
0
0%
2

YCAC
42
0
0%
3

Indian Engineers
30
0
0%
4

Friends XI
46
1
2%
5

Tokyo Giants
27
0
0%
6

Shizouka Kytes
28
2
7%
7

Wyverns
27
22
81%
8

Lalazar Sports
46
0
0%
9

British Embassy
24
2
8%
10

Dragons
48
1
2%
11

Fuji Far East
24
20
83%
12

Ichihara Sharks
23
0
0%
13

Nagoya
22
0
0%
14

Tokyo Bay Districts
22
6
27%
15

Adore
30
29
97%
16

Max
29
29
100%
17

Paddy Foley
44
0
0%
18

TOTAL
561
134
24%
 

It is interesting to note that the champion [...]

Australia v Bermuda (1995)

Today I was just browing the web and I came across a scorecard of a match between Bermuda and Australia in 1995. The funny thing is that this was a full australian side, I think either they were just coming back from WI or going there and they were i no mood to throw the [...]

Is Namibia a future Zimbabwe?

The Zimbabwe Crisis is likely to put all of ICC’s, or should I say, the test playing nations revenues to waste. There are some basic reasons why all this happenned, and it is essentially a political issue, not a cricketing one. The question now is, should the ICC be looking forward to making another investment [...]

Cricket development in China

Around the end of 2005, ACC Development managers visited China and answered some good questions about the future and development of cricket in that country. Personally, I do not see China doing anything until at least another 10-15 years, which is normal. But it seems that they are on a faster track, because they are [...]

What exactly is ODI standard?

With the ICC giving 6 new countries an ODI status for nearly 3.5 years, this debate has started off once again about them not being ODI standard. Some say that they are not ODI standard because they do not stand a chance to win a match against the big guns (which excludes Bangaldesh and Zimbabwe [...]

ACC Trophy 2006 in Malaysia

The ACC has recently made two interesting annoucements. One is that the ACC Trophy 2006 will be held in Malaysia in August. This tournament is going to have 18 teams participating, which means that China, for the first time, will be fielding a team. Though I expect this team to be extremely weak, but still [...]

League and Knock out cup…

I think I have figured out a solution for the ICC Asia region, whether there should be a league structure or Cup structure.
I think there should be both. Europe style 3 six team divisions, and also a sub regional knockout cup. That way, you will ensure that the best teams are getting the best oppurtunities, [...]

Give Bangladesh a break….

Ever since their promotion to Test Cricket, Bangladesh have been at the end of everyone’s criticism. Most common criticisms are based on  the argument that they are devaluing the Test Cricket records and also are a threat to the integrity of the game.
When South Africa started playing the game, way back in 1890, their team [...]