The Average Joes Of Cricket World

England vs Netherlands was presented as an uninteresting game. Everyone thought that the result was obvious. England thrashing Netherlands by a BIG MARGIN. But something unique happened that game. Netherlands fought back and fought back hard. Led by ten Doeschate’s calmly composed 119, they took off to 292. Thus, ten Doeschate’s county experience came in extremely handy while he managed to score his ton and place Netherlands at a decent position. 292 seemed to be a decent total. But still we thought, what is 292 in front of Pietersen, Trott, Strauss and Co. Still Netherlands managed to give a fight. If they were not inexperienced, they could have given the shock to all England supporters. But inexperience cost them the match.

Coming to the Kenya- New Zealand match. What happened there? No fight back, a middle order resting on their own legends failed miserably. Had Kenya been playing some more International cricket, they would have known to cope with situations. But this wasnt the case with Kenya. The wickets kept on tumbling and they were cleaned out for 69. To add insult to injury, New Zealand blasted to a victory in just 8 overs and embarrassed Kenya’s bowling attack thoroughly.

What is happening with these countries?? The Associate Nations seem to have been caught up in a vicious circle. They dont seem to win enough of their encounters against their better counterparts. But neither do they have enough experience to beat these guys. They manage to give a fight but are torn apart to shreds.

And now ICC wants to eliminate these countries from elite tournaments because they dont play well. Now if they dont have that kind of exposure, how are they going to beat good cricketing nations?? Now the question is that “Does ICC want to support the expansion of cricket or is it happy in just making the good nations play and make money out of it?? “