Martin Williamson

Bermuda receive ground approval

Bermuda will host their first international match in four years when they play Scotland in the Intercontinental Cup after the National Sports Centre ground received ICC approval.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Guernsey and Vanuatu apply for Associate status

Three countries have applied for ICC Affiliate membership and two more to be upgraded from Affiliate to Associate membership.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Bermuda wait for green light on national ground

Bermuda could be set to stage their first major international match, proving the ICC decides that pitches at the National Sports Centre have improved sufficiently since an inspection last year.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

The ICC's Speed bump

In New Zealand’s Sunday Star Times Richard Boock makes the very pertinent point that the criticism that has been leveled at the ICC is actually aimed at the wrong target.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Bangladesh beat plucky Malaysia

Bangladesh romped to a nine-wicket win over Malaysia in the third-place play-off in the CLICO International Under-15 tournament in Trinidad

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Slow progress continues in China

Shandong, the second-most populous province in China, has become the seventh region after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Liaoning, Chongqing and Tianjin to officially take up cricket, according to a media release from the Asian Cricket Council.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Immigrants making a pitch for cricket

An interesting article in Canada’s Globe & Mail reports that the popularity of the game among immigrants is being stalled by the lack of pitches.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Canada set for Twenty20 boost

Canada have joined the Twenty20 bandwagon and will host their first tournament in Toronto on May 17 and 18

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

World Cup dream for twelve nations

Afghanistan will be one of 12 nations dreaming of a place in the 2011 World Cup when the World Cricket League Division Five begins in Jersey later this month.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

ICC makes itself a laughing stock

The Speed affair rumbles on, to the continuing embarrassment of the ICC

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Journalists get on their bike

How do you get from the Brit Oval to Lord's without crossing the Thames

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Rocks win Nigeria's Twenty20 title

Rocks Cricket Club of Abeokuta has won the maiden edition of the GTA 20/20 tournament

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Rampaul signs for Ireland

West Indies fast bowler Ravi Rampaul will be Ireland’s overseas professional for the remaining seven games in this season’s Friends Provident Trophy.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Big guns thrash the minnows

There were big wins for West Indies, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaysia on the second day of the CLICO International U-15 Championship in the Caribbean

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Drakes takes charge of UAE

Former West Indies allrounder Vasbert Drakes has been appointed as the new coach of the UAE cricket team.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Sacking exposes useless ICC once again

The ICC’s decision to send Malcolm Speed off to tend to his garden for his last couple of months as CEO has hardly met with a wave of approval

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Samurai swagger in genteel old game

With the ICC World Cricket League Division Five set to take place in Jersey in May, the Mainichi Daily News has an interesting article on Japan’s preparations for the tournament.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Ghai slams Cricket Kenya over elections

In what has to amount to one of the most remarkable cases of the pot calling the kettle black, former KCA chairman Sharad Ghai has told The Nation that Cricket Kenya is in breach of an agreement with the ICC by not holding elections.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Pakistan beat West Indies in U-15 final

Pakistan beat hosts West Indies by two runs in a tense final of the International Under-15 Knockout final at Warner Park.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Pakistan scramble into U-15 final

West Indies easily beat an ICC Americas XI in the semi-finals of the CLICO International Under-15 Championship, setting up a final against Pakistan, who edged out Bangladesh in the other semi-final.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

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