T20 WC - Round 1

[cricketfan28]

good to see dhawan fan .. hard to find them these days

[maniac]

Just now, Norman said:

 

Yeah some part of me want Toygers to qualify just for that. 

 

It'll much more fun watching NZ vs Ban or Pak vs Ban than NZ vs Oman or Pak vs Oman

 

short term fun. Bangla getting knocked out lifelong fun

 

[Norman]

Brother Jatinder with a good catch. 

[R!TTER]

Woah another thigh slapper & what's more he drops dollies just like his mentor 

[maniac]

This Naim has a career strike rate of 105 lol, bringing out his best against Oman

[maniac]

Realistically Bangladesh will get enough to win this. Hope Oman give a fight. Want Scots to go through

[cricketfan28]

want tigers to do nagin dance ..in response to that rude celebration.

[Norman]

Mushfiq at no.8 

[sandeep]

8 minutes ago, maniac said:

True.

 

 

and that's the reason why I will just grin and bear all the other ancillary trash baggage that comes with the IPL.

[cricketfan28]

just imagine the scenes at Dhaka if tigers lose this..lol

[Lone Wolf]

Can Oman keep them below 150..  It'll be a thriller that's for sure. 

[Norman]

Alright 170 on from here. 

[maniac]

1 minute ago, sandeep said:

and that's the reason why I will just grin and bear all the other ancillary trash baggage that comes with the IPL.

Your reasoning was fine there but here is the issue with cricket in general, associate teams or even Nzl/Eng are usually getting good quality rejects from Pakistan, South Africa and to a lesser extent  Zimbabwe. 
 

The ones that rejected from India, Australia ,Nzl etc are of an inferior quality may be due to the reasons you mentioned.

 

However the problem is that associates are still not able to conjure up a decent enough team despite getting decent immigrants in their side. They have to scrape the bottom of the  barrel to construct a team.

 

Thats actually a bigger problem. Even though that wasn’t the essence of my original post, I am just building on your theory.

[maniac]

6 minutes ago, cricketfan28 said:

just imagine the scenes at Dhaka if tigers lose this..lol

yes will be wonderful to see mobs going crazy even more so in the times of covid

[Norman]

7 minutes ago, Norman said:

Alright 170 on from here. 

 

Or maybe not. 

[The Realist]

138/8

 

18.2

Fayyaz Butt to Saifuddin, out Caught by Jatinder Singh!! 2 in 2 for Butt! Another slower ball, on a good length and Saifuddin came charging down to create some momentum of his own for the big shot. Still failed to get the desired connection on the flat-batted hit, picking out Jatinder who does his Shikhar Dhawan celebration thigh slap in joy.

[nitinbwj]

1 minute ago, Norman said:

 

Or maybe not. 

They will get close to 150 .. More than enough against Oman. 

[R!TTER]

Bangers doing a repeat of 2016 WT20 meltdown against India 

[Lord]

2 minutes ago, Norman said:

 

Or maybe not. 

 

ICF's Gautam Gambhir

[sandeep]

6 minutes ago, maniac said:

Your reasoning was fine there but here is the issue with cricket in general, associate teams or even Nzl/Eng are usually getting good quality rejects from Pakistan, South Africa and to a lesser extent  Zimbabwe. 
 

The ones that rejected from India, Australia ,Nzl etc are of an inferior quality may be due to the reasons you mentioned.

 

However the problem is that associates are still not able to conjure up a decent enough team despite getting decent immigrants in their side. They have to scrape the bottom of the  barrel to construct a team.

 

Thats actually a bigger problem. Even though that wasn’t the essence of my original post, I am just building on your theory.

Cricket is a high skill sport - and the top players can only succeed if they are brought up on a steady diet of playing with and against high quality peers.  Associates do not have this at their disposal, and that's why expats quickly work their way up the ranks and into 'national teams'.  Its not a paucity of athletic ability or "talunt" - its the apprenticeship that big doses of quality first-class cricket that holds back associates.  

 

ICC if they really cared about 'developing' associate cricket, would have figured out a way to connect the top associate teams to regional 'test' countries' FC circuit.  But apathy and laziness rules the day.