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It’s not about the performance of associate nations now, but the improvement that will come from regular WCs and fixtures against FMs. Imagine a world where Nepal or Scotland or Namibia is just as competitive as Australia and India. That’s a future I want to see for cricket.

Rishabh Pant went for $3.1 Million in the IPL. Nepal’s best player earns $741/month. Pant could fund a Nepal player for 349 years, the entire 🇳🇵 men & women teams for 16 years, or at least two Associate Nations one year ICC grant all by himself. That’s the financial gap between Associate nations and the Full Members. For a full deep dive, check out the article 👇

Brilliant research piece, mate! A thought-provoking article shedding light on the financial stability and governance structure of leading Associate teams! Well done @cricket_broken “Expanding the T20 World Cup to 20 teams was the right call by the ICC. But if the ICC genuinely dreams of building a 32-team competition that rivals the FIFA World Cup, it cannot afford to let its Associates survive on goodwill alone. Most are one bad financial year away from complete collapse.”

✍️ New Article #410 🚨 The Brutal Economics of Associate Cricket: The 2026 T20 WC Was the Most Global Ever, But Can Associates Survive? @OsmanSamiuddin @EmergingCricket @CricketBadge @charlesp_media @BdJcricket bit.ly/4d9teJb

@ClinkWrites They should hold the Euro Cup right after the ETPL, that way casual fans can watch the franchise teams, get invested in some of the players, then get to see the best turn out for their national teams right after. Also Jersey 100% deserves to be a part of the Euro Cup as well.

If this happens in 2027, Cricket in Europe will grow massively. 📈 The ETPL, starting this year, will help young players. And the Euro Nations Cup will help Associates play more games against Full Members. After all this, the European trio are set to host the T20 WC in 2030.

Cricket Ireland are pushing for a 'Euro Nations Cup' similar to the Asia Cup and targeting a 2027 launch espncricinfo.com/story/ireland-…

India will play 2 T20Is against Ireland in Belfast before the white-ball tour of England in late June. This is mainly to fill the coffers of the Cricket Ireland board. An Indian match is worth around $5–10 million USD, so this will be financially helpful for them. But as a fan, I would have preferred if it were two ODIs. This is where the CWC Super League is needed, as it forces every board to play ODIs for WC qualification. We toured Zimbabwe for 3 ODIs in 2022 for the same reason. Now, without the Super League, an ODI tour to such countries is almost impossible.

🚨 Major League Cricket has announced the schedule for the 2026 season! 🇺🇸 The tournament will begin on June 18.

@_hypocaust I think Rwanda's Fanny Utagushimaninde has just become the first woman to hit a T20I century on debut?

Cricket development projects are underway in Burkina Faso 🇧🇫🏏 The country is hopeful of gaining ICC membership this year. #AssociateCricket #CricketEverywhere

good to see the @Kayosports update is performing perfectly now that we have a live AFL game in progress. great work guys, it's a pleasure giving you my $50 every month!

@kayosports your new website barely works. I don’t know why you changed it when the old one worked fine, but the homepage is completely broken. Took me 10 minutes to figure out a workaround. Used to be a defender of kayo, but now just annoyed. Hope this is improved.

ICC Europe Men's U23 Squad. 1) Chaudhary Usman Akram (@norskcricket) 2) Lucas del Bianco (@KNCBcricket) 3) Louis Bruce (@Gibraltar_Crick) 4) Alec Davidson-Soler (@Cricket_Espana) 5) Carl Hartmann (@IOMcricket) 6) Sebastian Hughes-Pinan (@Cricket_Espana) 7) Harry Johnson (@guernseycricket) 8) Ollie Jones (@CricketScotland) 9) Teun Leyer (@KNCBcricket) 10) Musa Shaheen Mahmood (@dcfcricket) 11) Lucky Ali Malik (@dcfcricket) 12) Gustav Mckeon (@francecricket) 13) Daniel Jonas O'Connor (@CzechCricket) 14) Shankar Panguluri (@CricketSwiss) 15) Theo Pullman (@cricketinjersey) 16) Vukašin Zimonjić (@SerbiaCricket)

🏟️ Current state of the new Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin, Japan 🇯🇵 The ground is expected to be completed within a month and will feature multiple playing strips along with dedicated practice nets. 📸 Brent Simmonds #JapanCricket #AssociateCricket #CricketEverywhere

Targets set for the Cricket Cranes.

@t20tracker Worth noting that he’s the equal leading run scorer in this Sheffield Shield season, scoring 640 runs at an average of 40 and strike rate of 81.

📰| PSL 2026 Sam Harper 🇦🇺 could possibly miss the first two matches for Quetta Gladiators if he decides to stay for the Sheffield Shield final. His state team, Victoria, have qualified for the final. #PSL2026

@ClinkWrites @crictologist Also Australia are playing tests against Bangladesh in August, so I’m guessing after the MLC he will start preparing for those hence he didn’t want to play in The Hundred.

@crictologist He'll also play ETPL, maybe due to workload didn't registered in The Hundred.

Smith was not the part of Hundred auction but will go to America to play that MLC?

On the live camera shot, I thought this was naughty by Miraz. But seeing the side on replay, it was actually Salman Agha with the brain fade. You can't be reaching to pick up the ball when you're that far out of the non-striker's crease and then cry spirit of cricket.

@AssociateChrons Brad Currie got picked too!

🚨 Asa Tribe sold to Welsh Fire for £70K! 🇯🇪 This is his second major T20 league contract after SA20. 💰