It's been months US troops has left Afghanistan and it happened back in Sep 2022. Most of the Afghan were happy having US goverment there.
Afghan dont promote women education and woman playing cricket - which is a problem and now Aussie refused playing with them. But it wont change the decision of Taliban.

Guys please stop this all because I have been feeling it's not all about Afghanistan and Taliban we need to talk about cricket and if someone wants to talk about other issues please go ahead and start a new thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=34.0 which could be more helpful and informative about this all topic, thanks.

Anyone following the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup? 5 associate teams are taking part, including United States (automatic qualification), Indonesia, Rwanda, Scotland and United Arab Emirates. Out of these 5 teams, two are 100% comprised of either Indian citizens or players of Indian origin. However the encouraging fact is that other three teams were fielding 100% native players. Indonesia and Rwanda are playing the world cup for the first time, and they performed decently in their respective first matches with native players.

This actually has become a problem. I do not think that any cricket team should be made out of 100% foreign players. This was already a big problem in men's cricket. Now, this has also become a problem in women's cricket as well. If the associate countries are making teams made out of 100% foreign players, it is not going to be good for cricket in the long run. Because they are thinking about cricket as a business strategy. Not something that they are actually going to be good at and playing competitively.

The main problem is that cricket is now not considered as a game but as an excellent medium of business. Various countries are now doing this. They are giving more importance to the foreign players rather than their own players, something that seems good for a short period of time  but harmful in the long run. Especially home cricketers will be discouraged. At some point, people will lose interest drastically in international cricket. As a result, cricket can also be under a big threat.

This was surely performance of the tournament by Henriette Ishimwe and best achievement for the Rwanda which is not going to face England in their last pool match and sure exit for them from this tournament with this high noted performance against Zimbabwe.

Now today we have three matches and mostly were one-sided as Australia won against Sri Lanka with score board AUS 159/5 Sri Lanka 51, in this match when South Africa ended with the target of 112/7 I have feeling UAE can do upset but sadly South African not allowed them and have won this match by margin of 45 runs, with last match of the day play between India vs Scotland which won by India easily after giving target of 149/4 and Scotland bowled out for 66 in 14th over.

Its not about foreign players it's about population of that country as we are talking about uAE there are Arabs, Indians,  Bangladeshi and Pakistani majority so when they make cricket team that comprises of these people . As Arabs are not into cricket and Indians are dominating in every field that's why their team has more Indians players.

This is very much surprising that Bangladesh U-19 women team is ahead of Australian team, as they are unbeaten in all there 3 matches played so far. While Rwanda (unknown in ICC main evetns so far) is very close to making it to next round. There match is in progress with England and England so far are doing good 30/0 in 3 overs.

It was actually a little surprising to see Bangladesh under 19 women at the top of the table. This was a very competitive group. And I thought Bangladesh is going to be in the third position at best. But Bangladesh under 19 women are proving to be a force to be reckoned with in this tournament. Christ to see Zimbabwe not qualifying. Rwanda, a very unknown team has qualified. Good for them.

I am actually interested to see the Bangladesh versus South Africa match. Because Bangladesh's under 19 women's team has shown really big hopes for this tournament. I think they are actually going to win against South Africa in this match. But obviously, the most interesting match is going to be India versus Australia.

For the U-19 tournaments, ICC is sticking with 16 as the number of participants for almost 2 decades. Other sports (such as football and field hockey) have moved ahead and increased the number of participants and the ICC has done just the opposite (they reduced the number of participants in ODI world cup from 16 to 10). At least for the U-19 tournaments, they need to increase the number of participants to 24. A number of good teams failed to qualify this time (including Namibia, Nepal and Thailand). And also, teams such as United Arab Emirates made a mockery of this tournament, by fielding squads entirely comprised of Indian citizens.

BTW, the ICC has proposed a 6-team tournament for the 2028 Olympics. I am surprised. They should have went for a 3-team or 4-team competition. Anyway they want cricket to be played only by the pig-4. So why include more teams? All the other team sports (including football and field hockey) are having either 12 or 16 participants, and the ICC has suggested to limit the number of participants to a minuscule level. If that is the case, then why even apply for Olympic participation? Also, they don't want any qualifier tournament. ICC wants the 6 teams to be decided on the basis of their rankings. What a load of crap?