Italy on verge of T20 World Cup qualification after stunning Scotland

[sage]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c4g8lzp6ggko#:~:text=Italy captain Joe Burns says,12-run victory over Scotland.

 

Bunch of Aussie/English diaspora it seems

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-men-s-t20-world-cup-europe-region-final-2025-1490463/italy-vs-scotland-7th-match-1490477/full-scorecard

[Gollum]

Hope they beat Pooks, aka fake Italians. 

[pkmmamks]

[sage]

Quite a formidable team, led by Joe burns 

[neel roy]

13 hours ago, sage said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c4g8lzp6ggko#:~:text=Italy captain Joe Burns says,12-run victory over Scotland.

 

Bunch of Aussie/English diaspora it seems

 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-men-s-t20-world-cup-europe-region-final-2025-1490463/italy-vs-scotland-7th-match-1490477/full-scorecard

This Emilio Gay guy played the first class match against India A 2 weeks ago. 

[LordPrabhzy]

If Europe is serious about cricket they could easily give Eng/Aussie expats passports and watch all players line up to play lol, India will be cooked after that

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, LordPrabhzy said:

If Europe is serious about cricket they could easily give Eng/Aussie expats passports and watch all players line up to play lol, India will be cooked after that

Aus/Eng rejects will lose to our domestic sides.

[LordPrabhzy]

Just now, Gollum said:

Aus/Eng rejects will lose to our domestic sides.

I dont mean red ball cricket- White ball T20... IPL teams arent a fair comparison here.. lets focus at state level T20 teams, i think it would be fairly even.

[Gollum]

9 minutes ago, LordPrabhzy said:

I dont mean red ball cricket- White ball T20... IPL teams arent a fair comparison here.. lets focus at state level T20 teams, i think it would be fairly even.

Think Punjab recently toured Namibia and crushed them. Namibia is one of the better associate teams that is consistently qualifying to T20 WCs. Don't underestimate our white ball bench strength. India can easily field 5 more T20 teams that can compete at least with non-SENA teams. Our second XI in fact won't be far behind first XI, Bumrah may be the only striking difference.

[LordPrabhzy]

3 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Think Punjab recently toured Namibia and crushed them. Namibia is one of the better associate teams that is consistently qualifying to T20 WCs. Don't underestimate our white ball bench strength. India can easily field 5 more T20 teams that can compete at least with non-SENA teams. Our second XI in fact won't be far behind first XI, Bumrah may be the only striking difference.

youre talking in the scenario now.. im talking about in the next 15/20 years if Europe decides to get serious about cricket their standard can match the current standards. Namibia right now is still a minnow and a poor country thats why i said Europe.. not all associate countries

[Laaloo]

Modi hai to mumkin hai

 

 

 

 

[Lord]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Think Punjab recently toured Namibia and crushed them. Namibia is one of the better associate teams that is consistently qualifying to T20 WCs. Don't underestimate our white ball bench strength. India can easily field 5 more T20 teams that can compete at least with non-SENA teams. Our second XI in fact won't be far behind first XI, Bumrah may be the only striking difference.

Punjab is the best domestic white ball team though. Especially T20. 

[RAZPOR]

next t20 wc needs to be 24 teams,teams like scotland shouldn't be missing out

[Gollum]

24 teams T20 WC, and also in LA 28/Brisbane 32, will ensure this format surpasses ODI by a landslide. More global nature of it (what better stage than the *ing Olympics), following, plethora of leagues.....ODI cricket can't be saved anymore, neither does it have the history/tradition/prestige of tests, nor the commercial draw of T20s.

[Trichromatic]

5 hours ago, Gollum said:

24 teams T20 WC, and also in LA 28/Brisbane 32, will ensure this format surpasses ODI by a landslide. More global nature of it (what better stage than the *ing Olympics), following, plethora of leagues.....ODI cricket can't be saved anymore, neither does it have the history/tradition/prestige of tests, nor the commercial draw of T20s.

 

ODIs are most boring format of the game. 

 

It's a pain to watch from stadiums.

 

Tests and T20 both offer better experience.

[Gollum]

53 minutes ago, Trichromatic said:

 

ODIs are most boring format of the game. 

 

It's a pain to watch from stadiums.

 

Tests and T20 both offer better experience.

ODIs on 250-275 pitches are still awesome. CT games in Dubai were really enjoyable, dew was also minimal. The RSA-Aus SF in 23 WC was as good as it gets. 

[Sgattick10]

For sub con teams one more European country to vacay free mein