Opinion: Rocks Paper Scissors championship on ESPN….

My Word…… I saw this today on ESPN, and I was rolling on the floor.
The coverage was for a world championship. There was a decent crowd in to watch this as well, and the commentators were going on about strategies etc. There was also a ‘pro’ who used to come between ‘matches’ and talk about [...]

News: ICC suspends USA

They are dropped from WCL Div 3, and it will be very unlikely for them to get through to the ICC Trophy 2009…….
All I can say is….. can this farce that is USA cricket get any worse?

News: Russell Crowe to star in a Bodyline series movie…..

Well….. I have always thought that a Hollywood movie about Cricket would go a long way in order to at least introduce mainstream americans to the sport as a serious venture….. at least as far as awareness is concerned, because at the momment it looks like most of them either dont know that it is [...]

Opinion: On the Ind v WI ‘expansion’ series

Cricinfo recently wrote an article title Leave Americans to Baseball, in which they discussed how the expansion of cricket is a non starter. I have in one of my previous blog entries explained how some of these expat based countries end up getting the limelight, and take the focus away from countries where cricket ACTUALLY [...]

Opinion: Of USA Cricket….

Every sports body, and ICC in particular, seem to be obsessed with developing their sport in the US. In many ways, they should be as well because of the massive population (over 300 million now) and the massive GDP of the country (about 11 trillion on sales).
But the truth about US cricket is that the game is followed [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Investing in USA Junior Cricket

Lets say that all the public middle and high schools in the following SF Bay Area cities were to be given a cricket atheletics program costing $50K per year each: Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Campbell, Milpitas, Cupertino and Sunnyvale. That would be 24 [...]