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We hear
@ECB_cricket
have offered to host a Test series between India and Pakistan.
We officially announce to
@ICC
that we are also offering to do the same & can provide near 24 hour daylight in June and July, as well as better Tweets covering the matches. Sniper security too.
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The problem with Suryakumar Yadav is that he is just a bit too good for this planet's bowlers.
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Hypocrisy
What’s one thing Britain does better than anyone else?
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Message to
@TheRealPCB
, we are happy to come and tour Pakistan and lose 3-0, getting chopped up and sugared like marmalade. Just letting you know in the interests of balance. And we will score at 0.7 not 7.0 an over.
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The batting average of Babar Azam
What is something that still hasn’t gone back to normal after the pandemic?
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We have seen enough. It's time to announce our World XI from the CWC group stage. Discuss.
R Sharma (c)
Q de Kock (wk)
V Kohli
R Ravindra
D Mitchell
G Maxwell
R Jadeja
M Jansen
A Zampa
J Bumrah
M Shami
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Message to the Aussies: check everything before the final. The metal and markings on the coin, the weight of the roller, the toxins in the dressing room's paint, the alignment of the Moon and Venus, etc. Leave nothing to chance, since you don't want to end up feeling insecure.
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The only thing we object to about mankading is calling it mankading. First ball, last ball, whenever the bowler wants, if the batter is taking advantage by encroaching, it's good to whip off the bails and give them a long walk.
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After today's truly epic match, even the doubters and naysayers out there will understand why we wanted to host an India v Pakistan series. Just imagine today's drama in -4 Celsius. Fire and ice on steroids.
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It's amazing that we only need another 3,000 Twitter followers and we will have more fans here than the Icelandic national football team. And every other sports institution and club here, needless to say.
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The 1992 World Cup finalists should leave this silly global tournament and play a tri-series with us. It will be good for the development of the game and get the statistics back in order. Discuss.
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We are pleased to confirm once and for all that we are not a parody account. Everything you read is the official perspective of the Icelandic Cricket Association.
If you don't like our opinions, we will have different ones to entertain you with tomorrow.
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People laughed when we said Pakistan would make the SFs. People laughed when pre-tournament we said England would be champions. Nobody is laughing now. We clearly understand cricket, now we work on being able to play it.
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“This is so unsporting of MS Dhoni. He does it all the time. The batsman only came out of his crease by a short margin and he didn’t mean to. Dhoni should be giving the batsman a warning and then let him carry on batting.” — Ricky Ponting
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Great to see this collaboration between two mighty cricket playing nations.
🚨 India, Iceland to work on use of geothermal energy in Ladakh - EAM Jaishankar.
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We have updated our Icelandic themed analysis of the Nagpur Test
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We just secured a box of the balls India are using in the CWC and it turns out they don't zip around in Reykjavík either. We have concluded that their bowlers must be a bit better than ours. Sorry lads.
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There are various ways of taking wickets at Rawalpindi, but they all come with bans of 3-10 years.
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Another completely untroubled century partnership on the Karachi road.
They should introduce some tolls and tax the run.
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When people compile lists of the greatest Test all-rounders, Ravi Ashwin's name is rarely present. But he has nearly 3,000 runs at almost the same average as Hadlee, with five centuries. Not to mention nearly 450 wickets at a lower average than Warne.
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We are not people who hold back. We have today issued our bid to host the Champions Trophy of 2025, and we look forward to hearing what Greg Barclay of
@ICC
has to say about it.
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Fakhar Zaman is on fire!
Rumour has it that his bat includes nano-technology and is actually remote controlled by an Xbox controller from space!
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Context and luck is everything in life. If Ravi Ashwin had been born in Sri Lanka, he would probably end his career with as many wickets as Muralitharan. If Don Bradman had been born in Iceland, he'd have scored no international runs and been a below par fisherman. That's life.
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To sum up, we have offered India v Pakistan:
3 Tests in Reykjavík
24 hour daylight
Sword joust for toss
Sniper security
Volcanic Ashes trophy
15 consecutive sessions of play per Test
We will add for all fans:
Free fermented shark and brennivin
Free volcano tour by this admin
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Stokes, Woakes, and jokes! (no Foakes)
A sham of a batting performance by England, but a Shami and Sharma inspired sensation by India.
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Don't say that we didn't warn you...
It has been a great Cricket World Cup for South Africa so far. Give them time.
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Sunrises Hyderabad batters are so good everyone in the team has an Orange cap 🤣
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Virat Kohli, the myth, the legend, and the man.
It's another carbon copy performance by the greatest ODI chaser of them all, falling just short of ODI century no. 49. He gets to walk off alone to the full clamour of the stadium.
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Rohit Sharma has been a six hitting machine in this tournament. Roasting NZ (Iceland II) in the fire right now.
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We said we needed 3k more fans and you gave us 11k, and still growing!
Crazy, amazing, beyond belief.
We feel like we are in some kind of dreamworld, like the one this admin had when we beat England and had a NRR of +12.84.
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Of course, for our new fans, there was that one time in 2018 when we got a bit excited about making our Test debuts against Pakistan, only to find out that
@ICC
had said Ireland not Iceland. We were fully ready to begin our loss, scoring at 0.7 an over!
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We are currently unranked but lost to Estonia this summer, who were 87th in the world at that point.
But on Twitter we are the 15th most followed Board. We have just gone above Nepal and UAE. Next up are the Netherlands, then the Scots, and after that it's just Test nations.
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Let's sum up how the teams are doing so far:
India - undefeated excellence
SA - very strong, except when chok...we mean chasing
NZ - Iceland II on fire!
Aus - from zeros to heroes
Sri Lanka - beating those they can
Pakistan - mercurial as always
Afg - inspirationally brilliant,…
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Any app for Australian viewers to watch the World Cup?
Yes, collAPPse.
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@AliaChughtai
The truth is that none of those players paid the entry fee to get into our team
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Kohlified
New word for the Oxford English dictionary. A team that has a competitive score chased down by one man, who does it again and again.
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We cannot afford the technology yet, but our bowlers have asked us to purchase the Wankhede DRS used to give Rohit Sharma out lbw today.
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557 to win for the Bazballers. If England win this, we will make Ben Stokes the new top Norse god. Odin can be forgotten, and Stokes will rule over all of Valhalla.
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This is going to be a huge score by New Zealand (Iceland II). The full emergence of Rachin Ravindra has been one of the joys of this tournament.
As for Pakistan, what balls were they given today?
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Today we announce our Pakistani ODI team of all time:
S Anwar
Z Abbas
I Ul Haq
J Miandad
M Yousuf
I Khan (c)
S Afridi
M Khan (WK)
W Akram
W Younas
S Mushtaq
Drinks boys: B Azam, M Hafeez and Shoaib Malik
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Can anyone remember that time Broad edged to slip, was given not out, and did not walk off in line with the spirit of cricket?
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We believe England are going to beat Pakistan on Sunday. And if you don't like that opinion, we will switch to believing that Pakistan will beat England. That's called flexible punditry. Yogic analysis. Fan-based thinking.
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This will go down as one of Australia's most ignominious overseas Test defeats. The gulf between the sides has been vast, but the pitch can't be that bad if one side can score 400.
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More expensive than a beer in Iceland
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Petition to add the word Pantastic to the list of adjectives in the Oxford English dictionary
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This is the difference between us and them. We will be watching every ball, hoping for a fantastic match between the two best teams in the tournament.
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7 highlights of the CWC so far:
Maxwell's 40 ball century and 201*.
Indian pace bowling throughout.
The rise of the Afghanistan team.
South Africa's one wicket win over Pakistan.
Australia's narrow win over NZ.
Dutch triumph over SA.
The emergence of Rachin Ravindra.
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It does not matter whether teams try Bazball or Blockball, it seems winning in India remains the hardest task in Test cricket.
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If a team doesn't get Pant, Pant will quickly get them.
He is a Gilchrist like cricketer.
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Good news. The Rawalpindi Road II is on!
We return to Pakistan next year for 3 Tests ❤️🇵🇰
If you're interested in joining
@BarmyArmyTravel
, register your interest below 👇
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How much money does the ICC require not to put India and Pakistan in the same World Cup group?
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Accept defeat gracefully, not disgracefully.
What is the HARDEST thing to do in cricket? 🤔
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Huge congratulations from all of us in Iceland. Well played!
Cue the Golden Confetti, the Champions are here!
Once a dream is now a reality! Take a bow, girls! 🙇♀️
#PlayBold
#ನಮ್ಮRCB
#SheIsBold
#WPL2024
#WPLFinal
#DCvRCB
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We'd bat this guy MS Dhoni a bit higher than 8 if he played for Iceland. He looks like a good young prospect and is not getting the chance to show his talent at CSK.
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The great thing about the Barmy Army is they travel the world, promote cricket, engage with the fans, embrace the local cuisine and endorse the venues, and at the end of any series, their team will have at least morally won.
Thanks a lot to every Indian fan who welcomed us with open arms again in Vizag.
The hospitality, food and cricket have all been incredible.
See you soon ❤️🇮🇳
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This is one way of keeping this bowler's economy rate down
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We may never become a successful international team, although we will give it everything. But we hope we are an example to other nations that it is possible to try and play cricket, even on the edge of the Arctic with the nearest sports shop selling cricket gear > 1,000 km away.
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Come on, anyone would think he's got inside your heads!
BREAKING: The third India Test has been moved to a new venue ... where Ravichandran Ashwin averages 12.50 with the ball.
#INDvAUS
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Sometimes images say more than words. We found one for England right now.
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Apart from Bradman's whole Test career, the greatest batting achievement so far in Tests is Sunil Gavaskar's 13 Test centuries opening up against the WI attack at their peak. No helmet, only small pads.
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Realistic scenario for Pakistan to make the semis.
Set a target of 300+ and then lock the England dressing room door.
Time out the whole team in 20 minutes. Job done.
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A lot of people say that we have only foreign fans. Nonsense. At least 20 of our 124k followers are from here, which in comparison to our national population is a monstrous level of support.
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Fun fact of the day:
Did you know that Britain will have had more Prime Ministers in the space of 8 weeks than English World Cups won in cricket in the past 47 years?
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The game is done. Odin can rest easily and the English are in disarray.
India 2-1 Brainlessball
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It's amazing. How can the more talented and superior team have lost 16 matches in a row in Australia? Surely those lucky Aussies will stop being lucky soon.
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Sachn Tendulkar holidayed in Iceland in 2009 and said it was maybe his favourite destination. Nobody knew who he was. We guess that was refreshing. He came to work on his golf swing. If Virat Kohli came today, the Icelandic press would want interviews. Cricket is growing here.
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If Iceland played India in T20, it would be like Brazil v San Marino in football. We want to first compete with the other little guys, like Gibraltar, Latvia, Poland and Lithuania. Then we will beat the other Nordic nations, then the Dutch & Scots. That's the order of conquer.
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Can we beat the struggling Indian team?
No.
Can we beat the 1,000th best team in India?
Almost certainly not.
Can we beat West Indies?
Absolutely.
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15-4-25-4 by Umesh Yadav. James Anderson like figures. Is age 35 the new 25 for Test pace bowlers?
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We send out our thoughts to Rishabh Pant following today's terrible accident. Let's hope he recovers well from these devastating injuries.
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Almost half the Indian runs are from sixes! They are taking Ben Duckett's coaching and teaching him the lessons now.
Yasharmaball.
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It's not for us to give England advice, but we'd like to point out it's typically a 9 hr 40 minutes flight from Delhi to London Heathrow.
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Let's hope the 2 billion fans watching today tune in tomorrow for Netherlands v Bangladesh.
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This is why we parted ways with the Danes back in 1944.
Actually we're a lot more like India, in that we don't hold the World Cup.
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Nations we have beaten:
Switzerland
Associate nations we would beat if we had the chance:
Cook Islands
Denmark
Estonia
Gibraltar
Isle of Man
Latvia
Saint Helena
Full member nations we would beat:
England
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Despite the road status of the Karachi pitch, NZ still suffered six flat tires. Not a great day for them. Pakistan will be very happy.
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Bowlers with Test averages of less than 21 are extremely rare since World War II. Only Garner, Marshall and Ambrose. Jasprit Bumrah is now in that category of greats. Maybe even better factoring in the generally unhelpful pitches for pace in India.
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This is what happens when you retire in India as a cricketer
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Ben Stokes has just been converted to the religion known as 'umpire's call'.
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If the Indian Premier League keeps getting longer at the current rate of expansion, then by about 2029 one season won't have finished before the next one begins.
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A famous victory for the Irish over the English. They will be dancing and drinking in the streets of Dublin for a week.
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We love it when IPL matches are played using the day-fight format.
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It's dark, it's cold, it's never too unpleasant for a bit of cricket practice on the lake.
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So, Rohit, Ravi and Ravindra, you can do it in home conditions, but what about on an icy Saturday on Langjökull glacier? It will need more than some ointment on the finger to grip the ball here. Good conditions for bowling the slider, though.
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We have a James Anderson end and now a Stuart Broad end. It's just as well Ian Bell retired before this trend took off.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Stuart Broad now has his own end at Trent Bridge ❤️
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There are currently three elite Test nations: Australia, England and India. Then there's some teams who play Tests badly, and some full member nations who have Test status but hardly play the format. Three distinct groups.
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In the spirit of Stuart Broad, we declare all Test results since 1877 to be null and void because we weren't allowed to compete.
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This is the Volcanic Ashes trophy for when Pakistan play India in a 3 Test series here. It's currently given to the winners of our indoor club tournament, but we can create a new mickey mouse event & trophy for them. Filled with ash from our eruptions & set in a basaltic base.
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Our Test batsman of the year is Jonny Bairstow. He played 10 Tests, scored 6 centuries and averaged 66 at a barnstorming SR of 76. Then he fell off his golf tee to avoid damaging his record. Genius.
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James Anderson needs to play another 22 Tests to reach 200 and join Tendulkar. Is this possible?
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We want the chance to bowl at South Africa in an ODI to see if we could keep them to under 1,000.
#realisticgoals
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If India renames itself as Bharat, then the Icelandic Premier League (ÍPL) will reap in millions of dollars as the big boy commercial sponsors switch across to get behind our T20 franchise league. They won't want to associate with another BPL brand.
*said with sarcasm
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Needless to say, our offer last month to host a neutral Test series between Pakistan and India fell on deaf ears, despite offering some unique rules & fan focused opportunities.
We are happy to bestow the same offer for the Asia Cup. The Arctic can offer
@bcci
what Asia cannot.
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