News: Zim to play as SA’s 7th Franchise…

I am not all too well aware of SA’s franchise system, but I think that this essentially means that Zim, who were playing at the SAA provincial level, will now be playing at a higher level, at least for the one day league.
Btw…. if the Franchise has 6 franchise players, then are only 5 Zimbabweans [...]

News: Zim push SA….

SA managed to win the game by 5 wkts in the end, but Zimbabwe did put them in a sopt of bother a couple of times during the match. The first was when Zim was batting, and they were 140/3 in the 35th over. It looked like they would easily post a total close 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 [...]

Professionalism in the Associates

I was talking to someone yesterday and I realized something. Something that is fundamental to raising the standard of the associate nations compared to the test teams.
Nepal just beat NZ and SA at the U19 level. Now, if you were to take the same players from these countries 10 years into the future, when they [...]

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 [...]