Opinion: England must incorporate Netherlands in C&G Trophy

Why they must? Because only they can.
C&G Trophy exposure, like the one given to Scotland and Ireland this year is an excellent oppurtunity for the associate nations. First of all, they play against many of the best, a standard much higher than what they will be able to muster on their own, and even higher [...]

News: Another joke by Canada

After their masterful performance in the Tri Nation series with Zim and Bermuda, before which this nation owning an ODI tag could not even get their team together to practise, it looks like Canada have fired their PR person, and get this, according to Crickinfo, it was done because he was doing too good a job in [...]

News: Netherlands beat MCC

Dan Van Bunge scored 70 of 116 balls while Tim De Leede scored 63 of 75 balls as Netherlands beat MCC by 53 runs in Rottterdam. For the Netherlands bowling, their main problem, Mark Jonkman did pretty well with a spell of 8-1-33-2 while Peter Borren ended up with 8-0-28-2. Netherlands total score was a [...]

News: Denmark thrash Kenya A

Well well. Looks like all those common sense indicators that told us that this was going to be a mismatch were correct after all. Denmark beat Kenya A by 113 runs, and Kenya A could not even bat out 32 overs. I dont know from where Kooperholdt and Klokker showed up in the Danish team [...]

Opinion: ICCs basic flaws in global expansion

There are, in my opinion, at least 4 basic flaws in ICCs current approach to the development of the game in other countries. We tend to think that perhaps cricket is an extremely difficult sport and that it takes 2-3 generations for players to come up to a certain competitive standard. This is slightly true, [...]

News: Japan knocked out of WCQS Div III

Fiji beat Japan by 83 runs in the second round of the EAP Trophy, hence knocking out Japan from the WCQS Div III. Fiji will now join Italy, USA, Uganda, PNG, and one qualifier each from Africa (probably Zambia), Americas (probably Caymans) and Asia (this is a tough one!).
Final score
Fiji 166 (50 overs)
Japan 83 (41.4 [...]

News: ICC to give $1 million to each qualifying associate for 2011 WC

Looks like the top 6 associates after the 2009 ICC trophy are going to be given a lot of money by the ICC. It used to be $125 K for the 2003 WC, then went up to $500K for the 2007 WC, and now $1mil for the 2011 WC. In addition to that, the temporary [...]

News: Scotland to make $108K profit from the Pakistan ODI

It looks like Scotland is going to profit by at least 60K-70K pounds ($108K-$126K) from the one off Pakistan ODI. I have been saying for a long time, and its good that the associates are on board with this, that at least 6-7 sell out games like this are going to sustain a professional cricket side. This [...]

Opinion: Dutch governing body set medium term goals

The Dutch governing body recently met and voted for some changes in their organziational structure. The 4 important things that I saw were 1) To increase public participation by 20% in the 3 years 2) to improve club structure 3) to get additional sponsorship worth 150K pounds and 4) to maintain Netherlands standing in the top [...]

News: Japan barely scrap past Cook Islands

Cook Islands: 75 (50 overs) - target revised to 73 off 42 overs due to rain
Japan: 73-8 (37 overs)
Japan win by 2 wickets. The scorecard is here
This is a pathetic display of cricket by both Japan and Cook Islands. Cooks I can understand, because they have only 20K people in that country. But whats up [...]