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Third Test - England v West Indies (Old Trafford)

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Lovely days cricket again, well done England!

As an aside, I was just thinking to myself, do we think that there is much chance of a new test side being added anytime soon (next five to ten years)? Scotland, Netherlands or Nepal perhaps, or, maybe someone like UAE?
 
HarrogateMackem said:
Lovely days cricket again, well done England!

As an aside, I was just thinking to myself, do we think that there is much chance of a new test side being added anytime soon (next five to ten years)? Scotland, Netherlands or Nepal perhaps, or, maybe someone like UAE?
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USA possibly?
 
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Interesting, know nothing about them - I will do some research. Why don't they play cricket anyway? Surely the British colonisers would have taken the game across with them (same as the likes of Australia or New Zealand)
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Cricket is probably far too intellectually complex for the Yanks to follow!
 
Game is far enough along now for even a days rain won’t stop a result. Big spin in their first bowling innings and I can see Dom and root coming to play if it goes late on Tuesday
 
HarrogateMackem said:
Lovely days cricket again, well done England!

As an aside, I was just thinking to myself, do we think that there is much chance of a new test side being added anytime soon (next five to ten years)? Scotland, Netherlands or Nepal perhaps, or, maybe someone like UAE?
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Don’t be silly. The ICC would prefer if it was just India, England and Australia on loop. They don’t want to build cricket elsewhere, or they wouldn’t have made it such a small last World Cup.

the shit heads
 
chunkylover53 said:
Don’t be silly. The ICC would prefer if it was just India, England and Australia on loop. They don’t want to build cricket elsewhere, or they wouldn’t have made it such a small last World Cup.

the shit heads
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Nor would they have cut the funding to the minor Test nations. Read an article a few months back about how insanely expensive it is for Zimbabwe or Ireland to put on Test matches - the minute you gain full member status, they refuse to give you any funding to stage matches, and the costs for a lot of boards is too prohibitive.

Hardly the actions of a game that wants to grow :(
 
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