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Big Footy, we meet again. Welcome to the second installment of my ‘Alternate History of Australian Rules Football’ mini-series. If you have not read the first chapter please do so following this link https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/alternate-history-of-australian-rules-football.1253604/...

Hello everyone at BigFooty, my name is Tim and today I am going to share with you something I have been working on in my head for the past 3-4 years (on and off). I present to you an alternate reality where everyone's favourite egg shaped ball game is an internationally played game at a high...

Seeing as the World Cup is happening before the Ashes and no-one really seems to know what our best ODI team looks like, it's time for this thread to match the Ashes one. Now, it's very much the selectors' fault that we have no idea what the best ODI line-up looks like, because they never pick...

Most cricket followers don't like the idea of a ten team World Cup. Those that do will probably be convinced it's a bad idea come late June next year. I've asked the question of what format the World Cup should be, in which I stated my own preference for a 20 team tournament. I've also attacked...

For the first four editions of the Cricket World Cup, there was a fairly simple formula in place: eight teams split into two groups, top two from each play in the knockouts. At least one of the teams playing would have qualified via winning the ICC Trophy for associate members. Come 1992, the...

To the ICC's shame, the 2019 World Cup is limited to ten teams, eight of which have already been decided. This World Cup shrinkage owes itself to Bangladesh and Ireland daring to knock India and Pakistan out in the group stages in 2007, forcing the ICC to figure out the best way to make as many...

The International Cup starts in 3 weeks and it usually involves some pretty interesting designs. I haven't heard or seen much about it so far so I thought that this could be a good place to share any designs that have been revealed. I'll start off this thread with the new Canada Northwind...