They are playing country cricket in England. IPL franchises are not interested in associate players. The problem is that Netherlands is not a test country and therefore the players don't have regular opportunities to play cricket at the highest level. So the best players sign contracts with various English county sides. But the negative side is that, if they are contracted then they can't play for Netherlands during the county season. This is a regular problem for teams such as Scotland, Netherlands and Ireland. Their best players get stolen by England.

Logically no one would ruin their career of earning big money but the players who are the end of their career are always a target and all they need to share is local room strategy. Majority of these accusations cannot be proved unless the officers can provide trail and i have not seen that till now even during the Sreesanth fixing case.

Times have changed, at least here in India. Women cricketers such as Harmanpreet Kaur, Mithali Raj, Smriti Mandhana and Jhulan Goswami are now very popular across India. They may not be as popular as Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma, but I would say that a lot more people in India have heard about them when compared to Lovlina Borgohain or Ravi Kumar Dahiya. It is both good and bad for sports in India. On one side it shows how popular women athletes have become, and on the other side it demonstrates how the other sports are suffering in India as a result of dominance from cricket.

It's easier said than done! When the import of a country is down, it means two things -

1. The country is on the way of becoming independent
2. Their forex reserves are saved from being depleted faster

These are the indicators of a strong economy and not a weak one. Russia has been supplying around 14% of world's oil and gas requirement since long. So it is not very easy to make them bend down in the face of sanctions.

Most hilariously when the sanctions have been imposed by a country responsible for most number of wars in the history of humankind.

The world must end of dollar dominance which gives US an upper hand on almost everything.

Disappointed with the performance from Netherlands so far. They need to make use of these opportunities and win matches against test nations. It is the same West Indies who conceded a series loss against Ireland at home a few months ago. I understand that some of the premium Dutch players are currently playing county cricket and therefore unavailable for team selection. But these opportunities doesn't come too often. And also, they should not forget the fact that the ICC has decided to scrap the Men's Cricket World Cup Super League.

I don't understand what the hell is going on. England blasted out for just 141 runs. For heaven's sake, the pitch doesn't look that bad and it equally supports both the batsmen and the bowlers. And this is the same pitch where Zak Crawley and Alex Lees added 59 runs for the first wicket. What happened to the famed England middle order (Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes.etc)? I admit that New Zealand has the best pace attack in test format at this point. But England had the home advantage and in form batsmen. Really shameful.

Keyboard warriors are coming up with all sort of scenarios to replace the Russian gas. What they don't understand is that designing and implementing new projects to extract natural gas may take many years. And even after that, there is no guarantee that the natural gas prices will remain high enough to make these profits profitable. And secondly, replacing pipeline gas with LNG can be very tricky. There is only a limited number of LNG tankers available. And the same can be said about the LNG terminals as well. In short, there is no quick fix solution.

This is not the first time India is trying to replace the Russian made weapons with locally manufactured ones. The first attempts were made two decades ago. But everytime the HAL delivers low quality products (even worse then those from Russia) and in the end the defense ministry is forced to go back to dealing with Russia. One advantage with Russian weapons is that they are very affordable compared to the ones from France or Germany. And with one of the lowest per capita GDPs in the world, India can't afford to splurge a lot of money on imported weapons. And sourcing them from China is out of consideration, due to poor relationship between the two countries.

Trust will be lost from the people around because of bad behavior, people who are addicted to gambling will always think about how to get easy money. The family can only persuade them to stop gambling because they do not want their family members to go the wrong way, without the desire to stop gambling, the advice of the family will be in vain.
The impact of bad behavior makes gambling addicts will be ostracized, both in their family and closest friends. Anyone will not easily trust someone who has not left a bad habit, because it will make them feel used with sweet words from the mouth of a gambling addict.

This is why "The House" always wins, because we are greedy. 

That was almost three decades ago. The problem is that Sri Lanka has remained where they were in 1996, and all the other teams have surged ahead of them in the meantime. A test nation can't simply progress at international level if all the cricket activity is concentrated in just one city. The same can be said about Bangladesh as well. Sri Lanka needs first class teams and facilities outside Colombo, in cities such as Kandy, Jaffna, Galle and Trincomalee. The SLCB needs to take the initiative and they can't blame the ICC everytime.

Well.. it is quite possible. Kohli is not in good form for the last 2 years or so, and there are so many talented youngsters waiting to replace him from his no.3 batting position within the national team. It needs to be seen for how long the BCCI will stick with him despite his poor performance. Hardick went through a similar lean phase and it took 2 years for the selectors to kick him out. If Kohli had concentrated on his game rather than all the drama such as Black Lives Matter and Diwali cracker ban, then he would have been able to perform much better. Maybe he should learn a lesson or two from the past legends such as Sachin Tendulkar or Rahul Dravid.

CATA is successful only if the solution is acceptable for the community and they really think that we have some problem like that and CATA can really solve this issue. Jut wait for few weeks and we see who will join CATA.

There is very little chance of BOOM going up in coming days, the market is not very much positive and BOOM behavior throughout this bull run is also very disappointing. My advice is not to jump into such coins at the moment.

Honestly, there are reasons for BCCI to say that because the last time ICC tried a cricket world cup with 16 teams, if I remember correctly India was knocked out of the world cup by Bangladesh and it was a really bad situation in India because of that.
People started burning Tyres and Dummies in front of the Indian cricketer's house. That's why I don't think they will want to take any chances.

As far as the ICC world cup is concerned I don't think they are going to exclude automatic qualification. Because that brings a negative result in the revenue.

Agreed. Favoritism and nepotism are there in cricket (although not as much as it used to be there in the old times), but these are individual-based preferences and doesn't favor any particular religion or ethnic group. As we have seen, nepotism alone can't guarantee the survival of players. Kohli tried to stuff the national team with RCB players such as Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar and Mohammed Siraj. But in the end, these players couldn't cement their positions in the national side and Kohli himself lost the captaincy.

A few months ago, I had mentioned about the problems that are present in the domestic cricket (for both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka). In both these countries, instead of a region-based first class system they have club sides based in the capital city competing in first class competition. Obviously these privately owned clubs are going to prioritize limited overs format, because that is from where they get the revenue. Both the boards (SLCB and BCB) should reformat their domestic setup and take steps to spread cricket outside Colombo and Dhaka respectively.

Rajasthan Royals have lost its big wicket Jos Butler. Rajasthan seems to be in struggle to reach 100 runs. After 15 overs RR have managed to score 94 runs losing 4 wickets. This Match has gone into the hands of Gujarat Titans. Very low scoring from Rajasthan Royals and Hardhik Pandya is bowling good taking 3 wickets leaving just 17 runs in 4 overs.

At first I laughed at the idea of quotas within the national cricket team. But then I realized that we already have that in international cricket. The South African national team has so called "transformation quotas" which calls for 7 non-white players in the national squad playing XI. Most of the top performers in South African domestic cricket are white players. But these guys will never get a chance to represent their country. Anyway, these sort of policies will never be implemented in Asian countries. No one supports such quotas here.