The following countries currently have the highest enrollment in junior cricketing activities amongst the associates. This includes many different things like Kanga cricket, elementary school cricket leagues, cricket clinics, and single day cricket festivals organized by the national cricket bodies. This usually is reflective of the age levels below 13, and the cricket played is [...]
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I found the format to be strange in any case even before the tournament, but the tournement by itself has shown me that it was the most pointless thing to do. The 2 day, 50 overs per innings format of the elite ACC U15 tournament is probably a bad idea, and perhaps, the selection of [...]
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The weekend was mixed for Scotland, as they beat Derbyshire easily, and then managed to lose fairly comfortably to Yorkshire. At one point, Scotland, while setting the target, were 174-4 in 42 overs, and I was expecting them to at least get close to 250. They only managed 212 after collapsing to 194-8 or something [...]
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Is it a good thing? or a bad one? What kind of a response does one expect when one says that a country, like Norway, is now playing cricket and has a standing in Europe, and then you find out that all the people playing over there are Pakistanis, who lived in Pakistan till they [...]
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Usually, if an associate's national team starts beating too many of the domestic team from a test side, it means that it is time for the assocaite team to graduate into full cricketing status. Scotland have done it twice this year, by beating Northamptonshire, and there was another county that they beat in the beginning [...]
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Namibia managed to score only 95 runs in their first innings as Ireland thmuped them by 5 wickets in their intercontinental cup match. Though, eventually Namibia did get back into the game, but their batting performance even in the second innings was pathetic.
Some of these associates that lose so badly to other associates like Scotland, [...]
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Zimbabwe has taken the tri series by beating Bermuda in the final. This was another mismatch, though Bermuda would have backed themselves to be competitive after Zim got only 250 odd in the first innings. But Bermuda, this time playing with their full team and their correct order managed to lose again by 84 runs.
Both [...]
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The following are the top non commonwealth countries in the world where cricket is not played predominantly by recent immigrants i.e. the number of locals playing the game is more than 20%
Indonesia (12161)
Italy (5668)
Thailand (5656)
Netherlands (5380)
Japan (4182)
Argentina (3925)
Denmark (3784)
Chile (2045)
Indonesia values are a little skewed due to the fact that they have more than 11000 [...]
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Well… I dont know what to say.
Zimbabwe went ahead and beat Bermuda today, a game in which Bermuda decided to turn their batting order upside down and give debuts to 3 new players. I can understand trying out new players when you are a decent team, but Bermuda trying out new players and then getting [...]
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Here is a look at the associate countries in the world having the highest number of combined senior + junior cricketers. What I mean by that is people playing hard ball cricket in an organized format, not counting Kanga cricket, or any other softball cricket which is played for fun or for learning clinic purpose. [...]
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