Other International Cricket

[carey]

How poor is Brod's coverage?

Tommy Cooper MOTH match the last 2 games in a row near 30 in this game.......

Tooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[brod]

How poor is Brod's coverage?

Tommy Cooper MOTH match the last 2 games in a row near 30 in this game.......

Tooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

In the 9 matches Cooper has played

215 runs (2nd most for Netherlands)
30.71 ave (Best for Netherlands)
134.37 s/r (Best for Netherlands min 80 runs)

4 wickets
28 ave
5.6 RPO

[carey]

Bout time!

Tommy Cooper is going to be a very good cricketer.

[brod]

ICC World T20 Qualifiers (After the prelim games)

1st Qualifying Final (winner to T20 World Cup)
Afghanistan (7-0) v Namibia (7-0)

1st Preliminary Playoff (winner advances to Preliminary Final)
Netherlands (6-1) v Scotland (4-3)

2nd Preliminary Playoff (winner advances to Preliminary Final)
Ireland (6-1) v Canada (5-2)

Preliminary Final (winner advances to 2nd Qualifying Final)
Ireland v Netherlands

2nd Qualifying Final (winner to T20 World Cup)
1st Qual Final Loser v Prelim Final Winner
Namibia v Ireland

Afghanistan have qualified for the T20 World Cup, with the winner of Namibia v Ireland to join them

Afghanistan and Ireland will play in the T20 World Cup later this year

[brod]

Afghanistan hope to achieve Test status by building on the success they have had in the Twenty20 format, allrounder Mohammad Nabi has said. Afghanistan have qualified for the World Twenty20 for the second time running, and Nabi said the next step was Test cricket.

"We really hope that we are granted Test status as we are playing so well and also we have such a fanatical following in Afghanistan," Nabi told PakPassion.net. "We will try our best by playing good cricket in the coming months to show the world and ICC that we deserve Test status."

[brod]

Travis Head scored 28 (second highest score) in Aus U19 loss to Eng U19

[brod]

Chris Gayle and the WICB have reached an understanding that paves the way for the former West Indies captain to return to the national team as early as the upcoming tour of England,

[brod]

Aussie U19 tournament

Pat Cummins topped the batting averages (67 runs @67.00, only faced 35 balls too)
Kurtis Patterson 175 runs @ 58.33
Mitch Buchanan 181 runs @ 36.20
Travis Head 98 runs @ 24.5

Cummins took 5 wickets in 3 matches

[brod]

Poor MP....

Marlon Samuels, the Pune Warriors batsman and part-time offspinner, has been reported for a suspect action following his spell against Chennai Super Kings on Saturday,

[brod]

Pakistan is excited to have the international cricket back in the country, after Bangladesh confirmed they would tour for a short limited-overs series at the end of this month

[brod]

The 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, to be held in England, will be the last time the tournament is played as the ICC moves towards having one championship for each of the game's three formats from 2015. The tournament is part of the Future Tours Program in 2013 but does not appear after that, with the play-offs for the World Test Championship scheduled for June 2017.

[brod]

Bangladesh has postponed its tour of Pakistan following a court order that set a four-week embargo on the national team's plans. The decision, communicated on Thursday to the PCB by the BCB's acting CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury, is the latest twist to a long-running saga that began last December; the tour itself, comprising two limited-overs games, had been finalised last weekend to take place in Lahore at the end of April.

The order came on a day when Pakistan said it had sent a 70-page security plan for the tour to the ICC and announced details of match tickets that were to have gone on sale next week. The events that followed will have added to doubts over whether the tour will indeed go ahead at all.

[Media Park]

Poor MP....

Marlon Samuels, the Pune Warriors batsman and part-time offspinner, has been reported for a suspect action following his spell against Chennai Super Kings on Saturday,

Shouldn't be bowling anyway. He's a batsman.

[brod]

Denesh Ramdin has been recalled to keep wicket and Marlon Samuels to bat in the middle order while Kraigg Brathwaite and Carlton Baugh have lost their Test places in the West Indies squad for the tour of England due to begin in May.

The West Indies selectors named their 15-man squad for the tour on the final morning of the home Test series against Australia, also including the uncapped fast bowler Shannon Gabriel alongside Assad Fudadin, who was named in the squad for the Dominica Test.

West Indies Test squad to tour England

Darren Sammy (capt); Kirk Edwards (vice-capt); Adrian Barath; Darren Bravo; Shivnarine Chanderpaul; Narsingh Deonarine; Fidel Edwards; Assad Fudadin; Shannon Gabriel; Kieran Powell; Kemar Roach; Denesh Ramdin; Ravi Rampaul; Marlon Samuels; Shane Shillingford

[brod]

John Wright has cited differences with New Zealand's director of cricket, John Buchanan, as a key factor in his decision not to extend his contract as the head coach. Wright has been in the position for only 16 months but has turned down a proposal to stay on beyond August, when his contract expires, meaning the upcoming tour of the West Indies will be his last engagement as coach of New Zealand.

[brod]

Chris Gayle's return to the West Indies squad is likely to be delayed after fresh doubts emerged over his availability for the ODI leg of the upcoming England tour, pouring cold water over the hard-earned resolution reached between him and the West Indies Cricket Board by CARICOM (the Caribbean Community).

The Windies might as well just give up on him...

[brod]

The South Africa-born fast bowler Neil Wagner has been named in New Zealand's Test squad for the tour of the West Indies, while Brendon McCullum has been rested from the one-day and Twenty20 squads. New Zealand have named their touring groups for the trip, which begins with a pair of Twenty20s in Florida starting on June 30 and finishes with two Tests in Antigua and Jamaica in late July and early August.

Wagner and the legspinner Tarun Nethula are the two uncapped members of the 15-man Test squad

Test squad: Daniel Flynn, Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor (capt), Kane Williamson, Dean Brownlie, BJ Watling (wk), Kruger van Wyk (wk), Daniel Vettori, Tarun Nethula, Doug Bracewell, Trent Boult, Neil Wagner, Mark Gillespie, Chris Martin.
One-day squad: Rob Nicol, Martin Guptill, Daniel Flynn, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor (capt), Dean Brownlie, BJ Watling (wk), Tom Latham, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Andrew Ellis, Kyle Mills, Doug Bracewell, Tim Southee, Tarun Nethula.
Twenty20 squad: Rob Nicol, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor (capt), Daniel Flynn, Dean Brownlie, BJ Watling (wk), Tom Latham, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Andrew Ellis, Kyle Mills, Doug Bracewell, Tim Southee, Ronnie Hira.

[brod]

Chris Gayle's return to the West Indies squad is likely to be delayed after fresh doubts emerged over his availability for the ODI leg of the upcoming England tour, pouring cold water over the hard-earned resolution reached between him and the West Indies Cricket Board by CARICOM (the Caribbean Community).

The Windies might as well just give up on him...

Chris Gayle has pulled out of his Twenty20 contract with Somerset, declaring himself committed to playing for West Indies in all forms of the game. The move could smooth the way for Gayle to return to the West Indies side for the upcoming tour of England, which would end a year-long standoff between Gayle and the WICB that stemmed from comments he made about the board in a radio interview last April.

What a ******* muppet

[GWW]

John Wright has cited differences with New Zealand's director of cricket, John Buchanan, as a key factor in his decision not to extend his contract as the head coach. Wright has been in the position for only 16 months but has turned down a proposal to stay on beyond August, when his contract expires, meaning the upcoming tour of the West Indies will be his last engagement as coach of New Zealand.

NZ seem to have had a bit of a turnover of coaches in recent years.

Despite being in a different role, I wonder if Buchanan will be offered the main coaching position.

[brod]

John Wright has cited differences with New Zealand's director of cricket, John Buchanan, as a key factor in his decision not to extend his contract as the head coach. Wright has been in the position for only 16 months but has turned down a proposal to stay on beyond August, when his contract expires, meaning the upcoming tour of the West Indies will be his last engagement as coach of New Zealand.

NZ seem to have had a bit of a turnover of coaches in recent years.

Despite being in a different role, I wonder if Buchanan will be offered the main coaching position.

There is talk from over the ditch about having more than one national coach, possibly a test coach and a limited overs coach