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Awesome news for the Dutch! What a fantastic achievement for them!
 
Shattered for the Scots, they have had a great tournament and I would have liked to have seen them make it but well done to the Dutch.

They will be celebrating hard in the red light district of Amsterdam right now, some people there may have even been watching the cricket.
 
Bas' Dad Tim was a very good cricketer for the Netherlands too. A famous Dutch cricketing family. Bas only agreed to play for Durham if they'd let him play this tournament.
Heard Ryan Campbell (now Durham head coach) speaking about it on the radio the other day. Both these sides missing half their teams a tremendous effort
 
Would love to see Scotland v England in the ODI World Cup this year.

One thing for sure, European cricket is probably is at strongest point its ever been with: England, Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland in the white ball formats of the game.

My question is who would be the 5th strongest Euro nation in cricket?
You’d have to say Italy, based on the fact there’s a few Aussie first class cricketers they can call on if keen. They could probably build an XI of eligible players from across the first XI grade cricket comps of Australia tbh, that alone would put them in 5th spot.
 
I feel for the Scots though. They should absolutely be playing in the World Cup.

next WC there will be more teams apparently so thats a step in the right direction. These associate teams have come along alot in recent years.

Should probably temper that by saying that Sri Lanka didn't lose a game and rarely looked troubled, so i wouldn't expect the associates to be causing too many boil overs.
 
Can we just cancel the windies tests and play an extra couple of shield games?
 

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Italy are an interesting one because their captain-coach (former county veteran Gareth Berg) has said Ben Manenti and his brother Harry as well as Spencer Johnson have agreed to play at the qualifiers for Italy. Plus a couple of county players. He's even said Joe Burns (eligible from the end of 2023) might play for them if they were to pull off a miracle and qualify for the T20 World Cup.
Italy ended up almost beating Ireland at the European qualifying for the T20 World Cup (Ireland won by 7 runs) but then got smashed by Scotland. Jersey got smashed by Ireland but ran Scotland close. Italy beat Jersey and look like they'll end up finishing third in qualifying (behind Scotland and Ireland) but miss out on the World Cup.

Ben Manenti has almost been their worst player too.
 
Italy ended up almost beating Ireland at the European qualifying for the T20 World Cup (Ireland won by 7 runs) but then got smashed by Scotland. Jersey got smashed by Ireland but ran Scotland close. Italy beat Jersey and look like they'll end up finishing third in qualifying (behind Scotland and Ireland) but miss out on the World Cup.

Ben Manenti has almost been their worst player too.
Is Spencer Johnson playing for them?
 

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