Posted on June 30, 2006 by Nasir M. Khan
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 [...]
Filed under: England, Netherlands | 15 Comments »
Posted on June 30, 2006 by Nasir M. Khan
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 [...]
Filed under: Canada | 6 Comments »
Posted on June 30, 2006 by Nasir M. Khan
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 [...]
Filed under: Netherlands | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 30, 2006 by Nasir M. Khan
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 [...]
Filed under: Cricket Development, Kenya | 4 Comments »
Posted on June 30, 2006 by Nasir M. Khan
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, [...]
Filed under: Cricket Development | 51 Comments »