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As a promo gimmick, ICC will be sending the ICC World Cup trophy on
a world-wide tour to 21 countries. The trophy will come to USA but
(surprise, surprise!) NOT Canada!

Reports now claim Windies will also be playing Pakis in Lauderhill.
More cricket for the Silicon Valley Desies...less and less for the poor
cricket fans in the islands.

In interview CEO of Windies Cricket has big plans to bring Windies cricket to Laudherhill. Gonna play India there next year and every year til 2022 (copycatting MLB in London?). Says its to "develop" cricket in states (after seven years not much to show, with Americans showing absolutely no more int...

Blatant favoratetism for sure, but won't make much difference with the T20 Qualifier since just a formality for USA/Canucks to advance. More troubling is the WC D3 qualifier since team "USA" will come to the tourney straight from some good quality competition, which I assume the other countries won'...

Can we assume these positions will NEVER be filled????

Well, the election results for the new BOD for USA cricket are in with less than impressive results. Despite all the effort, time, and $$$, ICC got less than 6K players to join the new national organization. Of these, less than half voted! No one elected got more than 600 votes. The mandated women's...

Don't know how reliable that report is. Wouldn't be surprised if
a combined Americas U19 team ends up in the tourney.

The U19 qualifier is, and always has been, very unbalanced. The Americas qualifying spot once again is between just two countries, USA and Canada. The only easier qualifying sport is East Asia where PNG has a virtual walkover. To make things more competitive ICC should put Hong Kong and Thailand in ...

Reports say his PTI party won the recent Paki elections and that
he'll most likely be the next PM. Might we see Trump bowling
him a few deliveries when he visits the White House?

"If there is no meaningful attempt to cultivate local interest and
Indian TV eyeballs are paramount to the success or failure of the
business operation instead, staging a league in Madagascar
instead of Ontario achieves the same purpose" --Peter della Penna, Cricinfo