All these teams are just starting their journey. It takes time for them to give the standard performance same as what we see with the leading teams. From this position only teams like Afghanistan, Netherlands, Ireland have reached the current position. So, those teams need time as well as the support from the ICC. Maybe after years these teams can be highly competing.

This is wrong, mastering T20 cricket can be done by anyone. Playing ODI is different, and I'm sure playing ODI and moving to T20 is better than just focusing on T20 cricket. These countries are slowly making their progress and in the long run they need experience. The matches played will help them face critical situations. More countries into cricket, but we were able to watch quite a limited number of quality games. The change takes place slowly.

Another thing, native player controversy continues forever. Even with the top teams we've got players born in other countries and playing for a different country. When someone doesn't gets recognised in the home country they look for opportunities and when some other country is ready to give chance it is obvious to accept.

Afghanistan, Netherlands and Ireland may soon be joined by teams like Nepal. Those who are not yet aware of Nepal cricket can find a good change if they watch their match. I find Nepal more reliable than other teams like Namibia, Papua New Guinea, United Arab Emirates and some others. Winning 5 matches consistently has boosted their confidence and they have also been appreciated internationally.

How many teams have got different squad for test and other formats of cricket. Yesterday England team played test match against New Zealand and lost it. Today England team have played against Bangladesh and won the match. This is good, because more players get opportunity to play for the country than just the same team playing every format of cricket.

India can try this kind of different squad for different format of cricket. BCCI have categorised the players on some category and have different salary slab.

The problem is that Nepal is not getting to play regularly. And if they are not playing regularly, they will not be able to perform well when it comes to showing people that they can win against bigger opponents. ICC generally does not have too much time allotted for associate nations in 1 calendar year. And I think the lack of play is eventually degrading the performance of the associate nations.

After that comes the funding part. Sometimes I feel like ICC does not even care about the associate nations. Because the funding was going to be very different for the associate nations. Nepal has a lot of talented players. My personal opinion is that ICC can increase the funding for them. But then they will have to increase funding for all the associate nations.

I am also in favor of this system as every board needs to have two teams with one for the WHITEBALL and second for the REDBALL, but sadly this is not affordable for the all boards as mostly have no luxury like India and England about their finances and this all needs good funds and other many things as well which are not easy job specially while ICC is on verge of cutting funding for many countries as India is want big share of the media rights due to ICC having good profit from their market.

With this all most of the things are useless because ICC has never been having any positive interest into this game as they are just having their deep pockets which needs funding, and they just want to have things in their favor which is clearly killing spirit of the game, and we are losing some positive things even right now still cricket is having strong fan base which is good thing, but now it's time for the ICC to act positively and bring few good changes and increase funding of associate countries as well for the better future of this game.

The reason why the BCCI prefers teams like UAE and Oman are well known. Because they always side with the pig-4 during voting. Teams like Nepal, Scotland and Namibia are very vocal about the poor treatment that is meted out to them and therefore have cold relations with the pig-4. 


The problem is that under current system teams with 100% foreign players are allocated a higher share of the funds (examples are United States of America, United Arab Emirates and Oman), and teams with native players have witnessed their funds going down with each passing year. In order to resolve this issue, the eligibility criteria needs to be changed. There should be a requirement that a majority of the players representing the national team should be citizens of that country. This sham scenario of foreigners arriving in tourist visa and then representing countries to which they have no connection should be avoided.

An example here. The so called "national team" from Czech Republic comprised of a bunch of tourists and medical students from India and Pakistan. Looks very "Czech" for me:

Indian selectors do have a problem in dropping non-performing players. KL Rahul was sustained within the team for too long, at the cost of other talented young players. Cheteshwar Pujara is still in the team, despite not performing for almost 3 years in a row. Hardick Pandya was given a guaranteed slot in the team for almost three years, before he came back to form. And the woke brigade led by Kohli and Rohit have a preference for bowlers like Arshdeep Singh, Siraj and Umran, who are always preferred for selection ahead of Natarajan and Kuldeep Sen.

The group phase of 2023 ACC Men's Challenger Cup is now complete. 4 teams have qualified for the semi-finals: first match will be between Bhutan and Saudi Arabia, while the second one will be between Bahrain and Thailand. The two gulf nations will have the advantage as they are entirely comprised of foreign players with first-class experience. Bhutan has a 100% native squad, while Thailand is also majority native. A total of 8 teams participated in this tournament, including Iran, Maldives, Indonesia and Myanmar.

The two finalists from this tournament will qualify for the 2023 ACC Men's Premier Cup (where a total of 10 teams take part). Winner from the Premier Cup will qualify for the Asia Cup, which will be held later this year in Pakistan.

That is true, the situation in Pakistan is not that great considering they are struggling financially but China is pumping them billions while they are in a battle with IMF. When it comes to Cricket the Pakistan Cricket board wont be having any issues conducting the tournament but since India claims that they wont be travelling to Pakistan, they either need to conduct the match in UAE or continue with the tournament without India. There might be a huge financial loss if India is not participating but they need to approach the ICC for the compensation  .