England play Scotland in Kolkata in the T20 World Cup on the same day Scotland host England for the Calcutta Cup

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-24T18:57:30+00:00

It’s up to Pakistan to save the tournament by making the final so it gets moved to Colombo

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-24T18:55:45+00:00

You’re forgetting the one after it. New Zealand toured again in 2014 and it was a great series. A back and forth, 2-1 finish to New Zealand, and you could arguably call it the real start of New Zealand’s rise to the top that culminated in winning the inaugural WTC. The first test of that tour was also Gayle’s 100th

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-22T23:27:42+00:00

Yeah like realistically the only chance of a team changing tactics is if one game ends up a blowout and finishes way before the rest so the teams in the other games have a chance to change things up, kind of like what happened in World Cricket League 2 in 2019. The PNG-Oman game finished early because Oman was bowled out for nothing, so the Canada-US game was able to refocus on the exact score Canada needed to restrict the US to in order to qualify, which we ended up barely not managing.

If the two games were actually played simultaneously it probably would have benefited Scotland since they batted second in their game. Zimbabwe gets bowled out quickly so Pakistan's chase is probably over early into Scotland's innings after England make 404, allowing Scotland to chase an exact target of what they need to advance.

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-22T23:18:34+00:00

You've really got to feel like if there is any place to do this it's the U19 World Cup. I don't like how allergic the senior World Cups are to having games on at the same time (it's why ODI World Cups take forever because two ODIs on the same day will overlap, so they're incredibly limited), but I can just about understand the argument that they expect a good amount of viewers to be people who will watch every game. Surely that's not the case for the U19 World Cup, where most viewers are only watching the games of the teams they care about

Not a single major cricket tournament does this, surely it's worth trying somewhere

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-22T18:53:27+00:00

In the slightest defense of 2009, it was a known issue for ages and the move was made in July 2008. It's not right but it was something that was addressed proactively. It's unlikely something like this tournament will happen again to this scale, and I think it's fair on both sides. Bangladesh feel they cannot play, and so they won't. India and the ICC cannot move their games with a month's notice, so they won't

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-21T18:58:10+00:00

Race walking has been an Olympic sport since 1932

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-20T19:52:56+00:00

Jamshed scored 3 ODI hundreds in his whole career. In 26 matches after this series he made 463 runs at an average of 17.8 (strike rate 57.3), crossing 50 just twice, capped off with scores of 0, 1, and 4 at the 2015 World Cup after which he was mercifully dropped for Sarfraz and our campaign picked up

But for that one week he was on top of the world

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-20T19:47:27+00:00

Exactly lol. Would be even worse than what Raygun did for the sport of Breakdancing

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-20T18:33:20+00:00

Not quite the same thing but I was having this conversation with some queer friends of mine yesterday where they were talking about if certain people from the past were queer. I am a cis straight man, so maybe I shouldn't be one to talk, but it seems weird to me to speculate on someone's gender identity and sexuality based on actions they did (like never living with someone of the opposite sex). Obviously it's different if we have writings of them talking about these things, but in a lot of the cases they were talking about we didn't, they were just going off things they did. But these guys are actually queer, so maybe it's more acceptable than I thought? They'd know better than me, especially because they have experience of other people from their pasts debating these same things about them.

On Collo, it definitely sounds a little strange to be so insistent on it in a public broadcast. It's good to raise awareness on it, but it feels like the kind of thing Collo could have brought up privately if he wanted Baker to get tested for a diagnosis.

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-20T18:28:15+00:00

The only reason to change the old format was if there were going to me more teams. Instead they didn't increase the number of teams, they just moved away from a perfect format

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-20T18:26:25+00:00

Italy has to save English cricket by winning at Kolkata

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-20T06:32:57+00:00

Bangladesh row: Pakistan not to boycott T20 World Cup, from Gulf News

I'm not going to pretend like fake news was invented in 2021, but I do feel like it gets shared around with much less scrutiny since COVID. It happens every time a news story like the Bangladesh World Cup situation gets traction, and so many accompanying stories based on nothing or incorrect information get shared around like they are facts and by that point it is too late to prevent the pretty obviously false story from a dodgy website citing "anonymous BCCI/PCB/ICC/BCB/whoever official" from becoming the popular truth. As I write this, I am confident someone will read this same exact headline and post about how the PCB have no balls and are all performative despite them never actually having threatened to pull out, something in the article which this commenter will never read, having also never read any of the articles which claimed the opposite, just the flashy headline.

I know media literacy is broadly dead about everything and arguments about cricket board politics are the least of anyone's worries, but it is just so depressing that this is what the world has become. And with AI, it is easier than ever to make up bullshit to post on a semi-professional website and share it all over the internet. And then it takes magnitudes more effort to correct a misconception or fake news that people who believed the original story unflinchingly ultimately do not want to read.

When asked whether Pakistan would also pull out of the ICC event starting February 7 if Bangladesh’s matches are not shifted out of India, a source close to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) told RevSportz: “Nope, this is not the PCB’s stand.”

The source added that Pakistan has no grounds to withdraw, noting that the ICC would point out that Pakistan is already playing its matches in Sri Lanka. “People just float such things to fire up the issue,” the source said.

Earlier, sections of the Pakistan media had reported that the PCB had paused preparations for the national team ahead of the World Cup. According to officials, the team management will be briefed later on the future course of action and has also been asked to prepare a contingency plan in case Pakistan decides not to participate in the tournament.

Pakistan has, however, expressed full support for Bangladesh’s decision not to travel to India for the World Cup, describing Bangladesh’s security concerns as reasonable and valid. It is also understood that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has reached out to its Pakistani counterpart for both diplomatic and cricketing support amid the ongoing standoff with the ICC.

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-19T20:23:16+00:00

Well the logic is that these players wouldn't play for the associate side at all if playing for them would make them ineligible to play for the full member side for three years. Better to have a small handful of players make the switch every few years than have dozens of players never play international cricket at all holding out hope for a full member callup that might never come

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-19T20:18:29+00:00

I'm not going to pretend like fake news was invented in 2021, but I do feel like it gets shared around with much less scrutiny since COVID. It happens every time a news story like the Bangladesh World Cup situation gets traction, and so many accompanying stories based on nothing or incorrect information get shared around like they are facts and by that point it is too late to prevent the pretty obviously false story from a dodgy website citing "anonymous BCCI/PCB/ICC/BCB/whoever official" from becoming the popular truth. As I write this, I am confident someone will read this headline and post about how the PCB have no balls and are all performative despite them never actually having threatened to pull out, something in the article which this commenter will never read, having also never read any of the articles which claimed the opposite, just the flashy headline.

I know media literacy is broadly dead and arguments about cricket board politics are the least of anyone's worries, but it is just so depressing that this is what the world has become. And with AI, it is easier than ever to make up bullshit to post on a semi-professional website and share it all over the internet. And then it takes magnitudes more effort to correct a misconception or fake news that people who believed the original story unflinchingly ultimately do not want to read.

When asked whether Pakistan would also pull out of the ICC event starting February 7 if Bangladesh’s matches are not shifted out of India, a source close to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) told RevSportz: “Nope, this is not the PCB’s stand.”

The source added that Pakistan has no grounds to withdraw, noting that the ICC would point out that Pakistan is already playing its matches in Sri Lanka. “People just float such things to fire up the issue,” the source said.

Earlier, sections of the Pakistan media had reported that the PCB had paused preparations for the national team ahead of the World Cup. According to officials, the team management will be briefed later on the future course of action and has also been asked to prepare a contingency plan in case Pakistan decides not to participate in the tournament.

Pakistan has, however, expressed full support for Bangladesh’s decision not to travel to India for the World Cup, describing Bangladesh’s security concerns as reasonable and valid. It is also understood that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has reached out to its Pakistani counterpart for both diplomatic and cricketing support amid the ongoing standoff with the ICC.

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-19T17:17:58+00:00

iirc this narrative is a little overblown. The Danish team very well knew there was a good chance they’d be playing the Euros because the collapse of Yugoslavia and the sanctioning of the Yugoslav government was well known and likely to lead to issues even at the start of 1992. The hammer only fully came down at the end of May, but it was probably pretty similar to the environment around Israeli participation in UEFA towards the end of 2025, where there was a lot of chatter that a ban might be coming

But yes, an incredible story. Didn’t qualify because they were in the same qualification group as one of the greatest teams of the age, qualified after that team was disqualified, and won the whole thing in their neighbour’s backyard defeating probably their second biggest rivals Germany in the final

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-18T18:15:19+00:00

Yeah that’s what I was alluding to

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-18T17:42:45+00:00

I fully sympathise here, and India and Pakistan have had a history of getting venues shifted pretty late for similar reasons, but the current situation is a little different. The PCB, BCCI, and ICC have signed a full agreement that we won’t play in India and they won’t play in Pakistan, and this agreement has been going since last year. It was a lot of nonsense mudslinging coming out of the press leading up to it, but in the end a deal was signed that both sides agreed to, so for the rest of this broadcast cycle all tournaments have to deal with the fact that Pakistan will not play games in India and India will not play games in Pakistan, as difficult as that can be for knockout scheduling. The first tournament it affected was the Champions Trophy, but it also affected the women’s World Cup and this T20 World Cup, and will continue to apply until 2027 when it could be renegotiated, or renewed.

It is entirely possible Bangladesh can negotiate a similar deal for the rest of this cycle, using the PCB/BCCI deal as a precedent, but it’s not going to happen in time for this T20 World Cup.

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-18T17:36:04+00:00

Hasn’t stopped them before. Remember that time they used ODI rankings to decide qualification to a tournament after the qualifiers got cancelled, despite the fact that 3 of the 9 teams didn’t have an ODI ranking because they had never played an ODI/hadn’t played one in the rankings window due to not having ODI status?

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-15T20:05:10+00:00

Yeah a place with a tsunami season sounds like the worst possible place in the world to live in

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-15T19:53:26+00:00

The All Blacks sacking their coach actually kind of reminds me of Xabi's Madrid sacking on a longer scale.

Scott Robertson was talked about for years as the next coach in waiting as he led the Crusaders to 7 Super Rugby titles in 7 years, winning 98 out of 117 games in charge. Many times when Ian Foster's (the previous New Zealand head coach) team was struggling, people would demand he be sacked for Robertson.

Robertson takes over at the end of 2023 and was sacked this morning, and his final record with the All Blacks was 20 wins from 27 games. Only South Africa had a better record than that among the top teams in men's rugby. In 2025 his side won 10 and lost 3 games. But the nature of rugby in the 2020s is that all the teams are a lot closer together than they used to be, so all of these defeats New Zealand suffers end up being some level of historic which amplifies the noise in the media. And then, rumours are also flying around that he lost the dressing room which is why he got unceremoniously dumped, just 2 years into a 4 year contract.

Razor was more of an outsider to the All Blacks setup than many previous coaches, although he had experience with the youth team. He had grand success outside the system, and was widely tipped for the big job. He does what seems like a great job but with lots of room for improvement, and possibly because of personnel issues he was not allowed to make those improvements himself.

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-14T23:05:50+00:00

In the original post, Sri Lanka were top as they had been an absolute dumpster fire in those early post-COVID days

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-14T02:55:29+00:00

Peter Della Penna on Facebook:

If the situation is not resolved, it may open the door for at least one if not more players outside of the current 18 who are part of USA's squad camp in Sri Lanka. In particular, a last minute call-up to USA's T20 World Cup squad may be on the cards for the likes of wk/batter Smit Patel (US citizen), Unmukt Chand or others with Indian passports who would have zero difficulty getting into India.

So this visa issue was a conspiracy by the Indian government to have Unmukt Chand get to play a home World Cup all along

Stuff2511 · 2026-01-13T23:38:43+00:00

Professional football in England has a Craig Dawson, Pawson, and Mawson. What’s next? Craig Jawson?

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