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In a break from the current cricket board trend of bitching about NSW players fearing doom, I thought I'd start a thread of outlandish cricketing ideas for where the sport could eventually end up. A bit of fun on the main board!
My first outlandish idea, which I suspect could never seriously happen, is just a vague thought
- Pacific Islands team (similar to the West Indies).
Reasoning? Essentially none of these areas (bar maybe PNG) have a pop to sustain an international cricket side but combined could be similar in nature to the West Indian sides. Add this to the fact that People from across these regions (PNG, Fiji and the various Polynesian nations) are extremely powerful physically. In my local comp there are a couple of teams made up exclusively of islanders (one Cook Islanders, unsure of the other) and, whilst their games arent particularly refined (largely made up of family's and rugby/league players in their off seasons) boy can they play. Excellent eye and have hit some of the bigger six's i've seen. With serious investmant could quite easily be very good cricketers, can bowl pretty quick take freakish catches etc.
Reasons it would not work - probably too numerous to mention tbh, which is why it's in the outlandish ideas thread! Infrastructure, cultural differences, money, low populations of most of these nations bar PNG and the fact that most of these islanders tend to prefer rugby union, starting from near scratch now would mean its far too long-term an idea for the current twenty20 vision of cricket coming from the ICC/BCCI
Just an idea
My first outlandish idea, which I suspect could never seriously happen, is just a vague thought
- Pacific Islands team (similar to the West Indies).
Reasoning? Essentially none of these areas (bar maybe PNG) have a pop to sustain an international cricket side but combined could be similar in nature to the West Indian sides. Add this to the fact that People from across these regions (PNG, Fiji and the various Polynesian nations) are extremely powerful physically. In my local comp there are a couple of teams made up exclusively of islanders (one Cook Islanders, unsure of the other) and, whilst their games arent particularly refined (largely made up of family's and rugby/league players in their off seasons) boy can they play. Excellent eye and have hit some of the bigger six's i've seen. With serious investmant could quite easily be very good cricketers, can bowl pretty quick take freakish catches etc.
Reasons it would not work - probably too numerous to mention tbh, which is why it's in the outlandish ideas thread! Infrastructure, cultural differences, money, low populations of most of these nations bar PNG and the fact that most of these islanders tend to prefer rugby union, starting from near scratch now would mean its far too long-term an idea for the current twenty20 vision of cricket coming from the ICC/BCCI
Just an idea
