And Netherlands have done it! They needed a big win (not just any win) to make it to the #CricketWorldCup and they got a big win. This will be their fifth trip to the world cup for a country with a long #cricket tradition going back to, we'll call it 1881 when the national team was formed.

The Ashes isn't the only thing going on in #cricket . The qualifiers for the #CricketWorldCup have been fascinating. That Nepal, USA, UAE, and Oman were eliminated is perhaps not surprising. But Ireland didn't even make the Super Six stage and Zimbabwe and West Indies are also eliminated. Sri Lanka is going to the world cup, and Scotland and the Netherlands are vying for the other slot. They play on July 6 and the Netherlands needs to win by at least <uh, whatever gets them enough net run rate>.

@enzo At the moment, I’m just heaving a sigh of relief that we didn’t lose ODI status this year. Tomorrow morning, we face #Namibia in the first match of the play-in tournament for the #CricketWorldCup Qualifiers. I don’t think #USACricket has played a multi-day match since 2011.
I do enjoy that in my time zone, New Zealand’s home Tests start at 4pm, which is a great way to spend a snowy evening.

My eleven to start the world cup
#Cricket #CricketWorldCup

https://ranked-list-images.files.bbci.co.uk/england-world-cup-xi-06be61573d36a4725dc805bb1bfd4e30.html

I picked a bad weekend to forget about my personal effort to bring more sport to my Mastodon streams... a great and terrible weekend for English sport, and pretty good for others in the UK too.

Missed opportunity to get very excited about the #RugbyWorldCup final against NZ, and the #CricketWorldCup final against Pakistan #Sport #RugbyWorldCup #Cricket

To slightly expand on my previous toot, I was watching the T20 #CricketWorldCup from earlier today. At that point, England needed about a dozen more runs but (to make things interesting) had just lost a wicket. Fortunately (from my POV - less so if you’re from Pakistan), they did go on to get the runs they needed!

Yes! We won the #CricketWorldCup

#cricket

#Cricket is tense. Turning in #England favour. Let's get it boys #PAKvENG #CricketWorldCup #ICCT20