Jeeyo Thanda Peeyo Thanda
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Dear all, please accept my greetings.
I am a cricket fan from the Netherlands. I am watching/following cricket since the World Cup 2003 in South Africa. My first match was India vs the Netherlands. Since then I am hooked on cricket and have watched many matches.
I really want cricket to grow and especially I want that the associate nations to atleast be allowed to participate in World events (like the world cup for T20 and 50 over formats).
I do understand that the top 8 test playing nations are on another level. But I kind of think that this is the case with Test Cricket.
I was wondering the following (that's why I opened this thread):
-Do you agree as fans of Test playing nation Pakistan, that for cricket to become popular, the sport needs to be promoted and thus these associates needs to get more chances (not that bogus argument of: yes but they are minnows, who wants to play them etc)
-OK, maybe for Test Cricket the bar is to high. But how about T20 and 50 over cricket. Surely when these associate nations get more chances (this means home and away tours as well), they will improve over time? India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand used to be called 'minnow' as well, weren't they?
-Where does this elitist (Top 8 Test nations) way of thinking come from? Do the players, managers, boards and cricket fans of these nations think they are better then the rest of the world? Do you really think you have some sort of monopoly on the wonderful sport called cricket? We here in the Netherlands, feel like you do
-The world consists of alot of more countries, not just 8. Do you know this?
-I do not see a thread here on PakPassion about the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament which starts tommorow. Why? Are you not interested?
I thank you kindly for reading and replying to this thread. I would have loved it if there were more opportunities for other countries.
Live Cool and think Cool!
De groeten uit Nederland.
I am a cricket fan from the Netherlands. I am watching/following cricket since the World Cup 2003 in South Africa. My first match was India vs the Netherlands. Since then I am hooked on cricket and have watched many matches.
I really want cricket to grow and especially I want that the associate nations to atleast be allowed to participate in World events (like the world cup for T20 and 50 over formats).
I do understand that the top 8 test playing nations are on another level. But I kind of think that this is the case with Test Cricket.
I was wondering the following (that's why I opened this thread):
-Do you agree as fans of Test playing nation Pakistan, that for cricket to become popular, the sport needs to be promoted and thus these associates needs to get more chances (not that bogus argument of: yes but they are minnows, who wants to play them etc)
-OK, maybe for Test Cricket the bar is to high. But how about T20 and 50 over cricket. Surely when these associate nations get more chances (this means home and away tours as well), they will improve over time? India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand used to be called 'minnow' as well, weren't they?
-Where does this elitist (Top 8 Test nations) way of thinking come from? Do the players, managers, boards and cricket fans of these nations think they are better then the rest of the world? Do you really think you have some sort of monopoly on the wonderful sport called cricket? We here in the Netherlands, feel like you do
-The world consists of alot of more countries, not just 8. Do you know this?
-I do not see a thread here on PakPassion about the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament which starts tommorow. Why? Are you not interested?
I thank you kindly for reading and replying to this thread. I would have loved it if there were more opportunities for other countries.
Live Cool and think Cool!
De groeten uit Nederland.
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