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India and South Africa become world champions, Netherlands and Nepal sizzle, Sri Lanka fizzle

In our first batch of team reports cards for 2025: India, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ireland and the Associates

29-Dec-2025

England's repositioning, New Zealand's rollercoaster, Pakistan's shambles

In our first batch of team report cards for 2024: Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, Ireland, the Associates

28-Dec-2024

Upsets the norm as competition among Associates hits fever pitch

Four takeaways from the group stages of the T20 World Cup Qualifier

28-Oct-2019•Peter Della Penna

Everything you need to know about WCL Division Three

A rundown of the six teams gunning for promotion over the next 11 days at the World Cricket League

08-Nov-2018•Peter Della Penna in Muscat

The painfully small margins in Associate cricket

Nepal has gained ODI status for the first time winning absolute nail-biters, but the teams that lost by such small margins also deserve a shot at more funding and better recognition

16-Mar-2018•Peter Della Penna

The agony and ecstasy of World Cricket League

Two moments in the field - a run out in the match between UAE and Oman, and a fumble in the game between Kenya and Nepal - summed up the contrasting emotions in the tournament

13-Feb-2018•Peter Della Penna in Windhoek

ODI League berth, World Cup Qualifier slots at stake in final WCL Championship round

Five teams have a lot riding on the last round of the ICC WCL Championship matches in the UAE this week, from spots in the World Cup Qualifier to a berth in the new ODI League

05-Dec-2017•Peter Della Penna in Dubai

'The most challenging thing for Associates is lack of games'

Kenya veteran Steve Tikolo talks about the challenges of his latest job as Uganda coach

07-Jun-2017•Peter Della Penna

I won't be your hat-trick victim

Also, what is the record for number of stumpings in Test and first-class innings?

23-May-2017•Steven Lynch

Kenya seek to rise from the ashes of their implosion

Attempts have been made to develop youth cricket in the country, but corruption remains a huge challenge

18-Nov-2016•Tim Wigmore

A moving Kenyan tale

A new film brings the country's Maasai cricketers into the media spotlight again

15-Nov-2015•Alan Gardner

Why this year's Associate crop is the best ever

The ICC deserves credit for helping weaker teams prepare better for this World Cup - though the Big Three are threatening to undo all the good work that has been put in

16-Mar-2015•Tim Wigmore

Two pairs of winners and plenty of losers

The ICC's Full Members have always been more equal than those below Test level, but now that same special treatment has crept into the Associate and Affiliate ranks as well

29-Jan-2015•Peter Della Penna

'I never stole anybody's money, yet I was given five years'

Half a decade since his ban ended, Maurice Odumbe continues to live with the stigma of corruption

24-Oct-2014•Tim Wigmore

'Kenya cricket is dead and buried'

The veteran spinner's dream spell against Australia in 2003 symbolised a brief golden period for Kenya, but since his retirement, the country's cricket has nose-dived

30-Sep-2014•Tim Wigmore

Forty-two and fighting

Veteran Kenya allrounder Steve Tikolo made an age-defying comeback recently to help his side reclaim some past glory

19-Dec-2013•Firdose Moonda

Rohit's record, and Ashwin's feat

Also, lowest "missing scores", a hundredth ODI on one's birthday, and West Indians with 20,000 international runs

12-Nov-2013•Steven Lynch

Janmohammed faces battle to arrest slide

Kenya's new chief executive was involved during the glory days of 2003 but their current international prospects are bleak

03-Dec-2012•Martin Williamson

To Africa, with kit and a message

Cricket Without Boundaries is a UK initiative that takes cricket, and a message of AIDS awareness, to an entire continent

15-May-2012•Firdose Moonda

Ten months in Nairobi

Mike Hesson couldn't stay as coach of Kenya for long enough to make enough of a difference, but he is confident the side has a bright future

11-May-2012•Firdose Moonda

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