*Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread

[cnerd123]

Haha I assumed as much when he batted ten.

Fun fact - when we played against him the first time he was so tired from bashing us around with the bat he didn't bowl in our runchase.

Second time we played him, he opened the bowling, and was the quickest bowler on either side. We were so confused.

He was definitely a better batsman than bowler back then.

 

[cnerd123]

Yeah I saw him bat once before too (against Scotland IIRC?) and came to the same conclusion. He's still so young too. Huge talent.

Has some sort of Somerset contract now apparently. Hope he doesn't pull a Mark Chapman on us

 

[andruid]

Papua clearly can't stand Scotland atm

 

[andruid]

Lots of intercontinental cup cricket, yet not a peep in here

AFG 321/3 (96.0 ov, Asghar Stanikzai 67*, Nasir Jamal 8*, Mohammad Naveed 2/52) - Stumps | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

HKG 50/2 (16.0 ov, Babar Hayat 12*, Anshuman Rath 20*, MD Dai 0/20) - Stumps | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

SCOT 37/0 (10.0 ov, KJ Coetzer 13*, HG Munsey 23*, TJ Murtagh 0/6) - Stumps | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

NL 400/5 (96.0 ov, MP O'Dowd 109*, RE van der Merwe 157*, BM Scholtz 1/80) - Stumps | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

 

[eempyrean]

andruid, not many follow other teams. Most follow their own. I used to follow intercontinental cup, but lost interest over the years

 

[mr_mister]

It's pretty pointless now they've announced who is getting test status anyway. If a third team overtook Ireland and Afghanistan and won this thing, would there now be 13 test nations?

 

[cnerd123]

I've been too busy to talk about it but been following HKs progress closely. The women played in the WorldT20 qualifiers recently, came third to UAE and Thailand, which was a bit disappointing.

 

[eempyrean]

It's pretty pointless now they've announced who is getting test status anyway. If a third team overtook Ireland and Afghanistan and won this thing, would there now be 13 test nations?

You are right. It's going to be many many years before another team gets test status

 

[CricAddict]

You are right. It's going to be many many years before another team gets test status

It mainly depends on how Ireland and Afghans fare on the test stage. If they do well, we can see a 13th nation soon.

 

[cnerd123]

I think a bigger issues is professionalism. Cricket is just not big enough in other countries to the point where they can be a professional cricket country - IE, hire people who work full time as players, match officials, or even administrators. By and large in Associate cricket this is done by people working part time or putting their careers on hold.

It's why the grassroots development of cricket in Associate nations and increasing their exposure on the global stage is so, so, so important. Both these things help increase the number of cricket fans in the country. More fans, more money. More money, more facilities, and increased professionalism. From that follows having a strong domestic cricket infrastructure, and from that eventually a First Class Infrastructure with atleast semi-professional players and officials and a strong dedicated administrative organisation

Afghanistan and Ireland already got to that stage to get Test cricket. It won't be the same if the ICC gave Test status to other Associates. They need to be investing in grass roots development in those countries first.

 

[brockley]

Well their is a 40 million cut to the Associates,so as to keep India in the tent.
So this will be the last Associate cups we will see.
ICC pretty much decided this a big sized golden egg that can't be persisted with.
You will still have the World Divisions,12,3,4 and 5 tho.

 

[cnerd123]

The ICC needs to go and suck their own dicks for treating governance of a sport around the world as a business instead

You exist to protect and develop the sport not to turn a profit. Bunch of buffoons.

 

[Prince EWS]

Brockley's post is basically fake news as far as I know. The ICC 'cut' to associates is basically nominal as the associate funding pool will no longer including Afghanistan or Ireland, who will receive 50-75 million (depending on how much the ICC actually rakes in) each over the eight year period in question.

As far as the ICup goes, the ICC has made no announcement at all as to the future of it. It might be scaled back slightly with Afghanistan and Ireland not part of it anymore, but I'd be surprised if they axed it altogether.

 

[brockley]

Rumours swirling around,it has a big axe round it.
The Associates don't know whether they are Arthur or Martha atm.
So not fake news.

 

[cnerd123]

Babar Hayat wafg

 

[andruid]

Babar Hayat wafg

ndeed

 

[weldone]

Target of 239 for Ireland. It will be very interesting - will depend on how they play Rashid

 

[Daemon]

Cricket transform to tapball


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHybh4X1_Z8

omg the guy at 2:10

 

[S.Kennedy]

Five-for for Barry McCarthy.

 

[andruid]

Questions for those of you with insider knowledge of Indian (or sub continent) cricket.

- Who are Ashish Dhawan, and Avniesh Bhardwaj?
- Why on Earth would they just wake up one day and bring a T20 tournament to Uganda?
- What's the catch? (I expect there is one)
- Why are they only broadcasting this in the sub continent?

AFRO T20 CRICKET TEAM WALLET ? Afro T20 League