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 [...]