Opinion: Off the grid

I would like to mention 5 countries that the ICC seems to be ignoring despite having huge potential, both interms of ICC's business of cricket, and also the spread.
Japan: I am baffled at why the ICC does not show the kind of interest in Japan the way it does in the US, even a 10th [...]

Opinion: Passion, Stability and Economy counts….

This positing is a mixture of thoughts. If you dont see a coherent agrument or point, I apologize.  
When the ICC gave Zimbabwe a test status, nobody complained that much, espeically since Zimbabwe ended up giving a decent performance in the test arena in their initial years, and had the current circus not taken place over there, [...]

The Twenty20 Debate…

The ICC wants to have a global championship for it. India doesn’t. Usually I think India is just acting like a spoilt brat in terms of global cricket, but here, I have to side with them.
First of all, this 20 20 cricket is for those who find 50 overs to be too much. There is [...]

Spurring the Cricket Industry [I]

Looks like for once, some great news came out for the associates. The ICC announced a schedule of ODIs for the 6 new nations (well, Kenya is not new, but reborn). There are going to be 64 games in all involving the minnows. Kenya will play 28 (thats a lot of cricket), Bermuda 20, Canada 17, [...]

Remarkable Nepal…

In the 2 practice matches so far in the U19 WC, Nepal has managed to win both beating Scotland and Namibia. Both the victories were fairly comprehensive. What is interesting about these victories is that Nepal, the Asia U19 qualifier, managed to beat the European champs and the African champs at the U19 level. So [...]

Is Namibia a future Zimbabwe?

The Zimbabwe Crisis is likely to put all of ICC’s, or should I say, the test playing nations revenues to waste. There are some basic reasons why all this happenned, and it is essentially a political issue, not a cricketing one. The question now is, should the ICC be looking forward to making another investment [...]

What exactly is ODI standard?

With the ICC giving 6 new countries an ODI status for nearly 3.5 years, this debate has started off once again about them not being ODI standard. Some say that they are not ODI standard because they do not stand a chance to win a match against the big guns (which excludes Bangaldesh and Zimbabwe [...]

ACC Trophy 2006 in Malaysia

The ACC has recently made two interesting annoucements. One is that the ACC Trophy 2006 will be held in Malaysia in August. This tournament is going to have 18 teams participating, which means that China, for the first time, will be fielding a team. Though I expect this team to be extremely weak, but still [...]

Give Bangladesh a break….

Ever since their promotion to Test Cricket, Bangladesh have been at the end of everyone’s criticism. Most common criticisms are based on  the argument that they are devaluing the Test Cricket records and also are a threat to the integrity of the game.
When South Africa started playing the game, way back in 1890, their team [...]

The Zimbabwe Crisis

Before I start writing anything, I would like to state that the game in Zimbabwe has already gone back by 20 years. If at the momment, they cant even produce a team which will stand up to teams from Scotland and Ireland, then things are really bad from a Test Playing nation point of view.
Zimbabwe [...]