So the ECB have dumped the Friends Provident Trophy, England’s 50-over domestic competition, from next season onwards. There will still be a 40-over thrash, mainly played on Sundays, along with tweaks to the Twenty20 Cup. More here.
More excitingly, England will host Pakistan and Australia next summer. Before that, there will be two Tests and three [...]
So Zimbabwe have beaten both Australia and Pakistan in the warm up matches - does it really matter?With T20 cricket, you can never say. Even Afghanistan stand a chance!I just got my head around the different groups and the seedings and was surprised to see Australia seeded 9th.Then I remembered how they had exited the last World T20 in the first round. Back then they had a tough group; this time i...
England and South Africa are looking good to advance to the quarterfinals of the ICC World Twenty20 after comfortable wins in their opening games of the Super Eights on Thursday, against Pakistan and New Zealand respectively.I’ll go so far as to say whoever wins the clash between the two sides on Saturday will definitely go through, although whoever loses isn’t necessarily out of it.It...
Barring accidents, disaster, recession or disease, the World Twenty20 final should be contested by England and Australia in a few days from now.The tossers who seed sides for ICC tournaments didn’t rate Australia’s chances of even getting to the Super Eights this year, much less the final. Everyone expected England to do well-ish, but ultimately go down fighting somewhere near the end....
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