Should Wales have their own national team?

[Caws]

Many Welsh cricket fans want to break away and form their own national team

Some fans think it's time Wales declared independence from England - at cricket - North Wales Live (dailypost.co.uk)

 

[GIMH]

no

 

[a spambot]

No. In fact, England, Ireland and Scotland should be combined into a single team, because none of them are good enough for test cricket individually.

 

[cnerd123]

Yes

Every country and special administrative region should have their own teams

The ECB should disband and the ICC should encourage the formation of a independent Wales cricket team

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

No. In fact, England, Ireland and Scotland should be combined into a single team, because none of them are good enough for test cricket individually.

Good bot

 

[Aritro]

Yes

Every country and special administrative region should have their own teams

The ECB should disband and the ICC should encourage the formation of a independent Wales cricket team

Including the Caribbean nations?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Including the Caribbean nations?

I mean Jamaica cricket team were able to do what West Indies weren't able to do, beat Ireland in a series:

Jamaica v Ireland...1-nil
West Indies v Ireland...1-2

 

[Chubb]

Glamorgan often market themselves as Wales’ national team.

 

[NZTailender]

How would they even hold the bat? With their tails? Could never run them out because they'd take up the entire pitch so would always be in both creases

 

[GIMH]

How would they even hold the bat? With their tails? Could never run them out because they'd take up the entire pitch so would always be in both creases

Milk my ****ing horses bitch

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Is Wales a nation?

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Glamorgan often market themselves as Wales’ national team.

Glamorgan's team from their last FC match:

Hamish Rutherford - From NZ, developed in Otago
David Lloyd - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Joe Cooke - From Hertfordshire, developed in Hertfordshire and Durham MCCU
Eddie Byrom - From Zimbabwe, developed in Somerset
Kiran Carlson - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Chris Cooke - From South Africa. Developed in Gauteng.
Dan Douthwaite - From Surrey. Developed in Surrey, also played for Warks, Cardiff MCCU and MCC.
Callum Taylor - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Andrew Salter - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Jamie McIlroy - From Hereford. That's near enough. Wales!
Michael Hogan - Australian. Not from Wales

So, they'd need to find at least another 6 players to qualify as a Wales team. Not convinced of the quality of the majority of those Welsh players either.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Is Wales a nation?

Is Scotland? Is Jersey? Is Bermuda? etc. etc.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Is Scotland? Is Jersey? Is Bermuda? etc. etc.

I was just curious...just was an honest question.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I was just curious...just was an honest question.

I think its a Principality, but really one of the component parts (Sovereign States?) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - same (or similar) status to Scotland. Jersey, Bermuda, Isle of Man etc. are Crown Dependencies and not technically part of the UK.

 

[mr_mister]

would Robert Croft captain a Wales ATG XI?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

would Robert Croft captain a Wales ATG XI?

No. Tony Lewis or Syd Barnes.

 

[Prince EWS]

Glamorgan's team from their last FC match:

Hamish Rutherford - From NZ, developed in Otago
David Lloyd - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Joe Cooke - From Hertfordshire, developed in Hertfordshire and Durham MCCU
Eddie Byrom - From Zimbabwe, developed in Somerset
Kiran Carlson - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Chris Cooke - From South Africa. Developed in Gauteng.
Dan Douthwaite - From Surrey. Developed in Surrey, also played for Warks, Cardiff MCCU and MCC.
Callum Taylor - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Andrew Salter - From Wales! Developed in Wales!
Jamie McIlroy - From Hereford. That's near enough. Wales!
Michael Hogan - Australian. Not from Wales

So, they'd need to find at least another 6 players to qualify as a Wales team. Not convinced of the quality of the majority of those Welsh players either.

Probably enough players with Welsh parents/grandparents to make a decent associate level cricket team, but the real question is "why", I suppose.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Probably enough players with Welsh parents/grandparents to make a decent associate level cricket team, but the real question is "why", I suppose.

If there were a host of good Welsh cricketers missing out on international selection because they have to compete with England players then that'd be why. I would assume that there should be a Welsh team out there good enough to compete with Scotland, in which case T20 World Cup qualification, or even an outside bet at ODI World Cup qualification could be plausible. It's not as if the England team market themselves as representing Wales, so I can definitely see reasons why it could be appealing.

EDIT: Who would be these Welshmen that should have played some international cricket? James Harris is possibly the only one I can think of who at some point a few years back was touted as potentially playing for England. Otherwise, in the last 25 years, you're looking at Simon Jones, Geraint Jones, Robert Croft and Matthew Maynard. Steve Watkin and Hugh Morris if you go back a little further.

 

[morgieb]

Who would be these Welshmen that should have played some international cricket?

Phil Salt seems thereabouts in white-ball cricket.