General Cricket Discussion Thread #3 - Page 17

Originally posted by: RandomWaliLadki

i dont get the system of unequal mo. of matches for all teams, its confusing too. i feel all teams should play equal amount of matches. the one good thing about the current odi league is teams like netherlands, ireland and zimbabwe are improving a lot. zimbabwe won a odi series vs bd recently and ireland almost won a series vs nz n eng. yesterday ned almost won vs pak.

Yeah. Dutch were so so close man. Would have loved to see them beat pak for multiple reasons. Primarily Those 2 youtubers who review pak cricket. 🤣

Originally posted by: BeingBlunt

And ICC chu have dropped the current league. There will be no league after the WC. We go back to old system. The big teams play only themselves and no one plays the smaller teams. The only thing that's good is WC also goes back to 14 teams. But that's stupid tbh. Teams would like WC to be 10 teams but these guaranteed 24 matches of odi League to stay.

Yeah. Dutch were so so close man. Would have loved to see them beat pak for multiple reasons. Primarily Those 2 youtubers who review pak cricket. 🤣

Originally posted by: Savera84

More than why BD is playing more matches, my question is why India is playing less tests?

They play truck load of T20s during IPL. They can reduce few T20Is and replace them with Tests.

But again I guess not all nations in the list are equipped to play more tests (in other words other nations refuse to play tests with them, which is a worry) so, number of tests is uneven across the table.

Back to Bangladesh. Bangladesh is small nation with less privileges. I must say they are doing well. More matches will expose them to different conditions in the world and eventually they will improve.

Cheers..

I could be wrong, but I actually see Bangladesh as perhaps the country with the biggest cricket earning potential outside the big 3 (Ind, Aus, Eng).

Huge population that likes cricket (more than SL, SA, NZ, WI, AFG and marginally less than PK)

Doing reasonably well economically (highest GDP among cricket countries after big 3)

A lot of growth potential (don't think their Jio moment has happened yet- I see lots of PK cricket fans on Twitter, but very few BD ones, or maybe their folks mostly tweet in Bengali)

I would've ordinarily had PK as the biggest cricket country outside the big 3, but their economy has been on a downward spiral, which is why I've gone for BD.

NZ too small population wise, SL small population + economy in trouble, SA cricket population is predominantly white (so same population as NZ effectively) and their economy isn't doing well either.

If SA can somehow leverage their black population (whites are only 10% of pop) and push them into middle class/upper middle class, they'll be the biggest outside the top 3.

Originally posted by: RandomWaliLadki

india vs pakistan matches r overrated tbh, i say this cause no matter who wins the match turns out to be one-sided most of the time, its not the same rivarly anymore

India vs BD is more spicy now. Even afg give good fight. The ac18 match or wc19 match was great.

Originally posted by: aekiel

I could be wrong, but I actually see Bangladesh as perhaps the country with the biggest cricket earning potential outside the big 3 (Ind, Aus, Eng).

Huge population that likes cricket (more than SL, SA, NZ, WI, AFG and marginally less than PK)

Doing reasonably well economically (highest GDP among cricket countries after big 3)

A lot of growth potential (don't think their Jio moment has happened yet- I see lots of PK cricket fans on Twitter, but very few BD ones, or maybe their folks mostly tweet in Bengali)

I would've ordinarily had PK as the biggest cricket country outside the big 3, but their economy has been on a downward spiral, which is why I've gone for BD.

NZ too small population wise, SL small population + economy in trouble, SA cricket population is predominantly white (so same population as NZ effectively) and their economy isn't doing well either.

If SA can somehow leverage their black population (whites are only 10% of pop) and push them into middle class/upper middle class, they'll be the biggest outside the top 3.