News: Bermuda to warm up in Trinidad for WCL ….

The itenerary is as follows:
January 8 – Bermuda depart
January 10 – Bermuda v Wanderers CC.
January 11 – Bermuda v Clarke Road United
January 16 and 17 – Bermuda v Clico Preysal
January 19 – Bermuda return
January 24 – Bermuda depart for World Cricket League tournament in Nairobi, Kenya
One has to hand it to the Bermuda board for [...]

News: Uganda to tour Kenya in Jan…..

The following is their itenerary:
Uganda v NPCA XI (Jan 24)
Uganda v Kenya (Jan 26)
Uganda v Canada (Jan 27)
Uganda v Bermuda (Jan 2
Uganda has been using the elite status of Kenya amongst the associates well….. Hopefully, even in the future, they will keep on utilising such oppurtunities, playing a one off game here and [...]

News: Denmark and Namibia get HPP spots…..

Both Denmark and Namibia have been added to the High Performance Program by the ICC. 2 more teams will be added, but they will NOT be from Asia, and will be chosen from the WCQS Div 5 next year. It seems at the momment that Uganda and PNG might be the forerunners to get those [...]

News: Malaysia gets automatic qualification for u19 WC…

Here is the full deal. Asia will have 2 spots, Europe and Americas will have 1 each, while there will probably 2 spots going to a combined Africa/EAP tournament.
I would have thought that ICC would also think about giving Nepal an Automatic spot, perhaps even Ireland. Nepal finished in the top 10 this time, beating [...]

Opinion: ODIs in 2006

This is a bit interesting. Bangladesh being more successful in ODIs, behind only to NZ and Aus than the rest.
What I find to be very odd is that NZ, despite being #2, played only 12 ODIs!!!! Thats less than Kenya, and about 40% of Both Zim and Bangladesh. Surely, NZ would have liked to have some outing [...]

News: No Barnett, Billclif or Thurasingham in Canada squad…

The squad announced for the Kenya triseries (seems like this is still on) and the WCL is:
1. John Davison ( Captain) BC
2. George Codrington (Vice Captain) ON
3. Desmond Chumney ON
4. Sundeep Jyoti ON
5. Qaiser Ali QB
6. Don Maxwell ON
7. Abdool Samad ON
8. Kevin Sandhar BC
9. Henry Osinde ON
10. Austin Codrington ON
11. Ashish Bagai ON
12. Ashif Mulla [...]

News: Kenya to host Scotland and Ireland in triseries

The only thing I am confused about is the timing. As far as I know, there was already a triangular series scheduled between Kenya/Canada and Scotland before the WCL in January. Has Canada been replaced in that triangular series with Ireland? Or is this a new triseries?

News: China beat Myanmar, and Bhutan beat Maldives in U15 ACC Cup

Very  interesting. China has won their first ever representative cricket match. Bhutan beating Maldives also seems to be an interesting indication, given the amount of interest in cricket in Maldives, and the the fact that Maldives have been affiliated with ICC for much longer.
Rego? Are you in Thailand watching all this? How about some first [...]

A year on

Dear Readers,
It was exactly a year ago that I started this blog. The main purpose being to have a forum where associate cricket, and the development and spread of cricket could be discussed. I used to post on these topics here and there on other forums, but quickly realized that since none of the [...]

Opinion: Scotland’s Bangladesh tour

First things first. As expected, the tour is getting a decent publicity in the Scottish press, much more than what the European championships got. As far as Bangladesh is concerned, the fact that these are full ODIs, has pushed Bangladesh to play their full team. The only player missing is Khaled Masud, who is probably [...]