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Pretty big workload for a part time position...

Some interesting information here: 1) Had long queried (with no replies) whether USA/Canada had to pay to play in the Windies competitions. Now have the answer. ;) 2) $86K for 16 people staying two weeks in the states!!! That's more than $5K per person!!! Have been to Canada many times and stayed th...

Peter Della Penna reporting USACricket has hired Richard Done, ICC Development
Manager, as new USA Development Manager. ICC continues to go whole hog for
USA Cricket, and soon may have their entire management team running USA Cricket!!

Blank-Check-Team...oops!, I mean "Team USA" skittled out by Nepal for 35!!!!
What does that work out to, about $100K per run that ICC's pumped into USA cricket!

Well, at least this time around ICC bringing in more countries, not like the
farcical "Americas" regional last time which only had three countries.
Nonetheless, this is still the easiest of all the regionals for advancing to the qualifiers.

(Yawn) Nothing to get excited about. Just the women's version of
the men's combines. Just going to look at the expat women now
playing. Doing NOTHING to expand the game to mainstream American
women.

"given the relatively small player base" And why is that?

Canada been to U19 seven times since 2002. In those 18 years nothing's
really changed. No retreat, but no advancement. In short, going NOWHERE.

"the guy does not have an accent." Why should he?

"number of Canadian born and raised players in this team" How many are NOT from a cricket playing background?

Canada cricket and Japanese cricket: two completely different development strategies. Japan has some expats but are committed to bringing the game to mainstream Japanese. They'll take their lumps doing this (maybe for a long while) but its a strategy that can only move the game forward. Canada? Comm...

"Canada will NEVER be internationally competitive as long as only
ex-pats play the game."

LIVE WITH IT!!