Good game, this.
#SCOvNEP

New Sunset Rubdown album? When did that happen?
Well that's today's belatedly biking to cricket tunes sorted then.
www.youtube.com/watch

Aye and RvdM's HBS affilitation is a bit hypothetical at this point tbh.

Couple of changes for the Dutch squad that heads to Scotland for the next leg of #CWCL2, most notably a call up for VRA's left arm quick Ben Fletcher, who replaces Klaassen. Recall for the veteran Wes Barresi too, in for de Leede.
So barring ZLC it's a 100% Topklasse squad...

worth making a mental note that cricinfo just uncritically tweeted this statement.

Off to the Bos again for the #CWCL2 tri-series opener - some Scottish nostalia tunes for the bike down: Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
www.youtube.com/watch

I Can't Believe You've Done This YouTube video by PWee28

Just me planning some WT20I rankings strategies with aspiring teams here when the ICC come in with their sudden women's update...
youtu.be/wKbU8B-QVZk?...

Occurs, incidentally, that Billy Bragg's "Fight Songs" must be a strong contender for worst album released at least 15 years after debut.

Eh, boringly and unwokely then I guess. I'm not listening to that whole podcast though it looks unutterably tedious. Also it's got Billy Bragg on.

Oh also worth noting With Teeth also qualifies.

Personal favourite here.
The actual correct answer to this question is Graceland tho, boringly.

Press release from Cricket Ireland announcing the appointment of Lloyd Tennant as Ireland Women's head coach.

I thought the Fourth Home Rule Bill did away with these like a hundred years ago?

Happy ICC Men's ODI & T20I Team Rankings Update Day to all who celebrate.

And if Taylor didn't know the math out there, then that's on her and the Windies backroom.

There's already a rule in the list to prevent bowling sides from sabotaging NRR chases with wides/no-balls etc. In this case tho the outcome is fair IMO. Windies sabotaged themselves by letting earlier games drift, esp vs Bangladesh.

Relevant to my interests.

Yeah from memory L2 is four games at VRA, three at Kampong. UAE and SCO playing an extra catch up. Both the women's and men's T20 qualifiers are apparently single-venue. Which seems mental but that's the schedule I've seen.

I suspect it was set up to make bankrolling the abortive Scottish league simpler, but honestly who knows how complicated it'll be for US companies to do business in Canada by the summer?
(Assuming there's still a Canada by then)

Yeah it's an accountants. Presumably just registered there.

Intriguingly, the Canadian press is describing Star 333 Sports, sponsor of the promised "Canada Super 60," as a UK-based company.
Back when they were backing the Scottish Super 10 (that never happened) they were US-based.
Fairly sure it's still Abhishek Shah. Guess he moved?

Have to say it was a bit disappointing to see only a single-camera silent stream for Afghanistan WXI vs CWB XI today given the significance. Okay cameras aren't cheap but how hard is it to wire up a mic for comms?
There's a story to be told and surely plenty willing to tell it?

The League 2 tri-series? I think it's start of May. 2nd-16th is what I'd heard.

Bit of out-of-season Dutch domestic news for you all, Topklasse will be going back to 8 teams from 2026. So potentially three teams relegated to the Hoofdklasse at the end of next season.
HK itself apparently also contracting, so could be a lot of relegation happening there too.

Missed this over the festive period.
Cricket Canada cuit ties with Gurmeet Singh's Bombay Sports. Reasonable to surmise this likely means the end of the Canadian Global T20 League.

www.cricketcanada.org/news-detail/...

Oh and by window I mean the opposite of window.

Oh and by next year I mean this year because it's 2025 already.

For a while anyway.

I mean they got exclusive rights to stage a launch ceremony and an auction and even franchise league if they wanted to.

New name, new partners too of course. Gone and the Euro T20 Slam backers GS Holding(s) in with the ET20PL backers Rules Sport Tech.

Consistent positive noises regarding the long-mooted European T20 Franchise collaboration between Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland growing ever louder. We now have an ICC sign-off, a new name* and a putative window - July 15 - August 3rd next year.
*the extremely dull "European T20 Premier League"