Bertus de Jong

Ed @TK_cricket.
ICC rankings-gaming consultant.
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Not-cricket: @bertusadejong
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[Bertus de Jong @BdJcricket]

Shouldn't need to be restated, but if you ask Grok to explain my tweets I will block you and think less of you as a person.

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About that time again...

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Okay but did they actually get the Silverware?
Or did we forget to bring the trophy again?

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@mroller98 @cricinfo Bit of a technicality, but I'd assume Tribe's NOC would have to come from Jersey Cricket unless and until until he actually debuts for England? Be a strange move to switch affiliation from AM to FM before he has to, given the advantages of being an AM player inf Franchiseland...

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Can report that taking a couple of years off cricket seems to have somehow made Michael van Lingen even better at cricket.

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@GongR1ght @jamilmusman_ CWC League 2 is part of the 2027 Qualifying pathway. It's not the actual World Cup Qualifier though, that's in SA and NAM early next year, and USA have already qualified for it. Also Hassan's not playing today, he's just been called up to the squad as injury cover for Ali Khan.

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Hearing this rescheduling may in fact have been a miscommunication.

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CWC Qualifier pushed back by four days, new start date Feb 26th next year, with Namibia and South Africa set to co-host. It's the first time in the tournament's 48-year history that it will be split across two hosts.
#CWCQualifier

[Bertus de Jong @BdJcricket]

@XO_MK678 Allow me to blow your mind.
https://t.co/wndzb2oUXn

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This one flew under the radar somewhat. Bangladesh are currently playing a warm-up two day game against a (presumably second-string) UAE side at the ICC Academy in Dubai, and have been bowled out for 234.
Very little info readily available. Anyone have a live scorecard?

[Bangladesh Cricket @BCBtigers]

🇧🇩 Day 1 Ends | Bangladesh were bowled out for 234, while the UAE reached 34/1 at the end of the first day of the two-day Test.

Bangladesh 🇧🇩 vs UAE 🇦🇪 | 2-Day Match

#Bangladesh #Tigers #UAE #Cricket

[Bertus de Jong @BdJcricket]

@XO_MK678 It's obviously not a test match. And Associates used to play red ball cricket regularly.

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@GongR1ght link?

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@GongR1ght Livestream?

[Paul Radley @PaulRadley]

13,000km to have the match abandoned without a ball bowled because of a wet outfield

Qualifier playoff/ILT20 clash now a near certainty for UAE, so Aayan ($95k), Khuzaima ($75k), Ibrar ($46k), Ali Naseer ($40k), Haider ($38k), Dhruv ($10k), Arfan ($10k) all going to be sweating

[Bertus de Jong @BdJcricket]

@BCBtigers Scorecard available anywhere? Or even a UAE XI?

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The UAE's senior men's team is currently in the USA for CWCL2. I've not even been able to find a squad list for this game. Emirates Cricket socials silent.
From memory, this is the most recent multi-day match played by an Associate representative side since Nepal in 2019.

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@BCBtigers Is there any way to follow this live?

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All gone very quiet on the Dunes T20 League that's supposed to be starting in Saudi in, err, like a week?

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@TelfordVice

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Oh cool the ticket ballot for *All Fixtures* is open.
Gonna get in for those definitely-part-of-the-real-world-cup SUPER SERIES games that are for real part of the tournament and not just there to immediately bin off two qualifiers.

Oh.

Well that's odd.

[Bertus de Jong @BdJcricket]

@rprasannag @PrasKon It is genuinely weird that you think you're telling me anything I don't know. It's also getting boring.

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Much more thanany of the other fudges, this consistent scheduling to give India play-last advantage is genuinely anti-competitive. There is no simply rationale for it other than to repeatedly and predictably give India an unfair advantage.

[Osprey @CricketOsprey]

@BdJcricket I see India get a play last advantage in their group again. Six times in the last seven men's ICC tournaments. What are the odds?!

[Bertus de Jong @BdJcricket]

@saka_stan Ha ha ha absolutely phenomenal.