The Next Test Nation

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I guess Kenya, but once Tikolo goes yuo can pretty much say bye bye to them and they'll go back down to ireland and namibias level

Bermuda wins a lot of games nowadays. The Dutch are lagging but I rate them. I would say Kenya, but no one else looks good enough, USA is out of the picture.. Canada don't know how to win (although they have some good players, codrington, davison).

It won't be Kenya , they are flat broke and have massive internal problems!

We have two sides now that can't compete against the other 8 - call me pessimistic , but I can't see even our crazed ICC allowing any side into the test arena before Willie takes the throne!

Yech... hopefully no-one until we see the bottom test teams atm show significant signs of improvement!

Kenya for sure,i dunno abt the internal probs.If they can sort out there internal probs then Kenya for sure.

I think probably USA mainly because of the amount of people inAmerica

 

Since the topic says the next Test Nation. it could also mean any time within the next couple of years and not neccessarily after a yearor two. It's ofcoarse Kenya or Canada. I think the ICC are going to wait till Tikolo retires and then see how they eprform without him to rate them as a Test playing nation. Canada have a lot of talent coming in. So theywill be following behind. But for the next few years no team is going to reach that level. Remember there was this article where it said that they won't be giving Test status to any team until they are really good instead of giving them Test status and realising that they aren't good enough to compete against World Class teams. But they also said that Kenya is next in their book, and they might be getting it soon.

Has to be Kenya.

Just HOW can Kenya be the next test playing nation?? Their team is a barely average one day side and have no experience whatsoever in the longer form of the game. Simply put , they are light years away from being a test playing nation!!

The place I believe has a small chance of being the next test side isn't even mentioned in the poll. This country has a massively expanding economy and an enthusiastic growing number of players. They're playing the game in their thousands already and that will just grow and grow. The physique of the population is ideally suited to the game , especially batting , but they have tall guys too who excel at basketball , so could turn out fast bowlers too.

Remember who told you first - the country is CHINA !!

Blimey Shan , that's sounds like a million dollar a year job - I'll get on the phone to Percy Sonn straight away!

Quite right mate , how he got the job is beyond me.

Then again , I've never understood the ICC !

Originally posted by Sledger The place I believe has a small chance of being the next test side isn't even mentioned in the poll. This country has a massively expanding economy and an enthusiastic growing number of players. They're playing the game in their thousands already and that will just grow and grow. The physique of the population is ideally suited to the game , especially batting , but they have tall guys too who excel at basketball , so could turn out fast bowlers too. Remember who told you first - the country is CHINA !!

Yeah true mate. One day I was watching TV and they showed how much people are curious to know the game of people. Once its has international team, probably after 5 years, dude they gonna have cricketers who are legend, I'm saying this because they population is vast, and I am sure they can find talent in billion people.

You said that basket ball player are tall, and they can be fast bowlers. My cousin told that once. Those tall players can be fast. There are couple of good basketball players in USA here. They might just turn out to be superb.

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