jimmy101
Cricketer Of The Year
In all seriousness, is there any chance of this actually happening? After all we have the West Indies & Ireland as Test playing nations, teams which represent more than one country.
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*Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread
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Prince EWS
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Nah. One team between the lot of them would mean less ICC money between the lot, and it'd still have to be comprised of the existing boards so they'd never go for it unless they thought they could go up a serious funding tier by doing it (which they wouldn't).
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
If only it was possible;e to keep these litigous ******s out of anything with money in it
Maybe if the economic bloc called the East Africa Community actually morphs into a country. Also highly unlkely
The people involved, as foolishly leaked onto a public facebook page
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Golden Horde
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Botswana have Namibia in trouble in what's the virtual final of the tournament :O :O Although not much is at stake - some prize money, maybe but both are through to the next round
Botsw 5/0 (0.1 ov, Z Abbasi 4*, T Phaswana 0*, T Lungameni 0/5) - Live | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo
Botsw 5/0 (0.1 ov, Z Abbasi 4*, T Phaswana 0*, T Lungameni 0/5) - Live | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo
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Golden Horde
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Good to see them get some publicity in India!
However I am taking the part in bold with a massive pinch of salt
However I am taking the part in bold with a massive pinch of salt
I'd be pleasantly surprised if more than 6-7 million people in the US care about the game. Although even 3-4 million would be impressive and there exists a massively unexploited market for the ICC
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Even the lower estimate (22 million) is about 7% of the population, which seems high to me. Once you added up all the South Asian expats and all the West Indian expats you'd have a base on which to build a perhaps surprisingly high number, but I wouldn't have guessed 7%.
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
They've probably commissioned an Internet poll, where 7-10 % have expressed an interest in cricket, and extrapolated that to the whole population
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Having looked this up, only about 20% of Asian Americans track their heritage to what you'd call cricketing countries (ie. the Test countries and Nepal). Not all of them would actually care about cricket either.
Golden Horde
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Some massive names lined up for T20X - Afridi, Andre Russell, Steve Smith, Sanga, Eoin Morgan, Malinga, Shakib and surely plenty of others
Which makes me think? Will this have T20 status? Full members are free to assign FC/List A or T20 status to whatever* games they wish but Associates cant do so. But surely they have to make an exception for this given the quality of the field? IMO this tournament, HK Blitz and the Global T20 are all of a higher quality than the South African provincial T20, the Irish IP20, Afghanistan's Shpageeza and Zimbabwe's (currently non-existent) T20 tournament. Assuming that they fulfill all the playing conditions they should be granted official status too
* whatever
Which makes me think? Will this have T20 status? Full members are free to assign FC/List A or T20 status to whatever* games they wish but Associates cant do so. But surely they have to make an exception for this given the quality of the field? IMO this tournament, HK Blitz and the Global T20 are all of a higher quality than the South African provincial T20, the Irish IP20, Afghanistan's Shpageeza and Zimbabwe's (currently non-existent) T20 tournament. Assuming that they fulfill all the playing conditions they should be granted official status too
* whatever
Golden Horde
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
https://www.thenational.ae/sport/cr...-cancelled-by-emirates-cricket-board-1.792311
**** They aimed too high
**** They aimed too high
TimCutler
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
For those interested in learning more about the emerging cricket world - a few of us are working on a new project to get these stories out there better to help grow the game. Here's our first podcast about cricket in Japan - we spoke with Dhugal Bedingfield in the Philippines where he's also coaching the side in the EAP "B" T20 World Cup Sub-regional. He talks about the partnership with Cricket Victoria, the $5m international ground at Sano and how their "Cities of Cricket" strategy is bearing fruit in other centres: https://emergingcricket.podbean.com/e/1-cricket-in-japan-with-dhugal-bedingfield/
Gomez656
U19 Cricketer
You should not have this in emerging thread because
It's international including test
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
Nah we specifically renamed this from 'Associate' to 'Emerging' to include Ireland & Afghanistan (and probably Zimbabwe) given we barely have posters from these countries.
Try hanging around a little more than a month before giving people advice on how to post please