Like fellow-Associates Scotland, the Netherlands has a cricket tradition going back to the nineteenth century. The side’s recent successes in both the ODI and...
A world-class display from Kathryn Bryce was the catalyst of Scotland's history-making victory over Ireland to qualify for the ICC Women's T20 World Cup...
According to the ICC ODI Rankings, that would be 13th place behind Scotland and Zimbabwe. Just above Nepal and the Netherlands, with Afghanistan way...
The Netherlands have produced some remarkable performances in World T20 Cups, but none had been more significant that Sunday’s 13-run victory over South Africa...
In the end it was Namibia who fell at the final hurdle, victims of an inexcusably cruel competition structure and an inspired, resurgent performance...
There was a definite air of inevitability about events at Kardinia Park on Thursday, as Sri Lanka asserted their historic superiority over the Netherlands...
West Indies completed the Group A parity cycle with a convincing win over Zimbabwe, exposing frailties in their batting when Sikandar Raza doesn't stick...
Trailing the game for nearly three quarters of it and looking within minutes of checking out the tournament entirely, Ireland somehow managed to turn...
If the batters had until now found conditions on Kardinia Park’s drop-in pitches less than ideal, Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka showed on Tuesday...
Thailand have made it to the semi-finals of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Women's Asia Cup 2022 in somewhat fortuitous circumstances. Bangladesh's fixture against...
Namibia turned their dream into reality on Sharjah’s greyish, baked-mud-looking surface on Friday with a perfectly-paced chase of Ireland’s 125 for eight, winning by...
The opening matches in Group A followed remarkably similar trajectories, seven-wicket victories propelling Ireland and Sri Lanka into very strong positions on the group...
Match: Oman v Papua New Guinea
Time: 14:00 local time on Sunday 17 October
Venue: Oman Cricket Academy Ground, Al Amerat
It's here. The T20 World Cup...
Like most of their fellow-Associates and unlike those Full Members who could afford player bubbles and exorbitant airfares, the Netherlands spent 2020 cancelling international...
From exile when I returnI’m going to beg someoneto introduce the newly-born babieshelp me identify those grown-upsand lead me to the cemeterywhere friends and...
The most consequential developments for Oman since the team's qualification for the T20 World Cup have occurred off-field.
In January 2021, the ICC accredited...
Recently-retired Australian Test cricketer Chadd Sayers has joined the PNG Barramundis as Assistant Coach for the duration of the ICC T20 World Cup.
On...
Following the announcement of both the Women’s T20 World Cup and U19 World Cup qualification pathways, the ICC has confirmed the qualification pathway for...
If cricket is the cultural lingua franca of the British colonial project, then English remains the sport’s language of choice. Predictably and understandably, and...
On this week's Emerging Cricket Podcast, we speak to T20 World Cup Media and Communications Manager, and EC Patron, Max Abbott.
From planning digital media...
Wednesday’s ICC T20 World Cup warm-up match
against New Zealand was the first time Thailand played a Test country from
outside Asia.
The match signified Thailand’s...
We leave the Pullman Hotel at 11 AM for an
International Cricket Council (ICC) ‘Cricket For
Good’ Clinic.
We are hosted at Campbelltown Memorial
Oval, home of...
Mention the success of the Thailand women’s cricket team in a sports conversation and most people look at you quizzically. Even those somewhat familiar...
Official partnership includes media support for national team at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Australia 2020 and beyondThailand Women’s captain, Sornnarin Tippoch named...
Despite not proceeding beyond the Asia regional finals in qualification for this year's T20 World Cup after finishing behind Singapore and Qatar, Nepal is...
Laced with defining individual performances, the T20 World Cup Qualifier again proved the quality among the top teams in the emerging game.
To determine the...
Netherlands (ten Doeschate 43*, Cooper 37, Young 2-39) defeated Ireland 137-9 (Stirling 29, Seelaar 3-17, van der Merwe 2-19, Klaassen 2-32) by 21 runs
The...
Emerging Cricket's Daniel Beswick joined SportFM's Jacob Landsmeer to discuss the T20 World Cup Qualifier in UAE.In the chat Bes also discusses the work...
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019:
Our most recent podcast:
2 November:
Third Place Play-off: Ireland v Nambia (14h10) report;
FINAL: Netherlands v Papua New Guinea...
First and foremost, here are the standings at the end of Day 9 in Group A:
TeamPlayedWinsLossPointsNRRPNG54182.099Netherlands54181.891Namibia64281.08Scotland53260.55Kenya5234-0.931Singapore6234-0.765Bermuda6060-2.839
At this stage of the tournament:
Namibia have played their...
Group A: Netherlands 206/3 (O’Dowd 58, Cooper 58, Ackermann 43*, Trott 1-31) defeated Bermuda (Leverock 31, van Meekeren 3-26, van der Merwe 2-23) by...
Firstly, here's the Group B table after Day 9:
GROUP BTEAM MWLPTNRRIreland*64281.591Oman*54181.388UAE53260.656Canada53260.433Jersey5234-0.039Hong Kong5234-0.383Nigeria5050-4.326
And here is the chat with Peter Della Penna between Abu Dhabi &...
After being withdrawn from the UAE squad along with two others, all three players including captain Mohammed Naveed have been provisionally suspended by after...
After painfully falling short of qualifying for the ICC 2019 World Cup, Ireland will be staking their claim to be one of the 6 sides to qualify for the 2020 T20 World Cup.
Since their last appearance at a major ICC event, the World T20 in 2016, Scotland have built a new reputation as being one of the strongest associate sides.
Background
Transition.
Or perhaps more accurately, turmoil.
These
words describe the pre-tournament fortunes of two of Asia’s four
representatives at the ICC Men’s World Twenty20 Qualifier. A third,...
Today, Pieter Seelaar, the Netherlands captain was announced as an Emerging Cricket Ambassador, just three days out from the first delivery of the 2019...
Background
Shem Ngoche, vice-captain of Kenya is abandoned by all his team mates at the Wanderers Cricket Club after his misfield allowed Nepal snatch a...
Buoyed by success at World Cricket League 2 and the subsequent Cricket World Cup League 2 tri-series in Lauderhill, Namibia look to cap off a barnstorming 2019 by qualifying for a World Cup in UAE, albeit in the T20 format.
Background
July 28th
2019, The Indian Association ground in Singapore.
The home team’s batsmen,
led by the talismanic Tim David, launch a relentless assault on Nepal’s
spinners. Sandeep...
Background
Of all the teams coming into this ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier, no side has experienced more upheaval than Hong Kong. Their flagship...
A power-packed batting lineup and an experienced team of spin bowlers provide Canada’s best chance at qualifying for an ICC global event in almost a decade.
Only days after Anshuman Rath announced he has switched allegiance to India and would therefore not be available for selection for Hong Kong henceforth,...
When Saad Khan Janjua—CEO of the Singapore
Cricket Association (SCA)—speaks, people listen.
It’s not because his name comes with an air
of gravitas.
It’s not because of his...
Pan-Asian emerging cricket is a relatively
rare phenomenon these days. The Asian Cricket Council’s tournaments are predominantly
sub-regional affairs, pitting the same geographically proximate teams against
each...
