News: Scotland thrash Namibia…..

Scotland have beaten Namibia in their intercontinental cup match. This is a little strange. I was expecting this to the result, but for Scotland to beat Namibia in 3 days by an innings doesnt bode well for Namibian cricket. Namibia have been feeling bad for quite sometime that they were never given a chance to [...]

Opinion: An opening for Second tier countries…. but not all…..

One thing that the developing Cricket world usually forgets is that the English county teams, at least 10 of the 18, every year embark on a 10-14 day pre season tour to warm up for the county season. In all cases, they tour countries NOT in Europe, because the weather in March and April is [...]

Best Associates from U19 WC

So how do we rank them in the end? It looks like the official rankings of the Associates are the following:
Nepal
USA
Ireland
Uganda
Namibia
Scotland
In my opinion, Nepal rank the chart like their official standing. They beat a test nation, and lost to another by only 2 runs. This latter loss saw them knocked out of the super league [...]

The third tier cricketing nations…

The third tier of International Cricket seems to consist of the following 8 teams: Loser of Nepal/Namibia, Italy, Uganda, Denmark, PNG, Fiji, USA and Malaysia. While the second tier teams get the intercontinental cup, and 6 out of 8 of them also get ODI status, these third tier teams get absolutely nothing.
It is a pity. [...]

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 [...]