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Good to see Bangladesh doing well. Some real talent there. If they hadn't allowed themselves to be used and dumped before the T20 World Cup, they could have created an impact.
🚨 Meet KENYA team, looks like they never existed in cricket history 🚨
- Defeated india by 69 runs, even Sachin Tendulkar was in the playing 11.
- Defeated Srilanka
- Defeated Bangladesh
- Reached the 2003 WC semifinal.
- Today it feels like they never existed in the world cricket.
- They played their last ODI match in 2014, after that they disappeared in cricket.
- How many Players of Kenya you remember, they are also legends?🔥
The 2027 men's ODI World Cup, which will be played in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, has been provisionally inked into the calendar to run from October 4 to November 21 🗓️
What has happened at the 2026 World Cup over the last 48 hours:
• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.
• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.
• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.
• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.
• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.
• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.
• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.
• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.
• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.
FIFA FAILED ALREADY
The beautiful Habiba al-Askari is one of 6,000 amputations in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the conflict. Imagine that 4,000 of these are children. And you can imagine that Gaza has the highest percentage of child amputees relative to its population, making it the country with the largest concentration of amputee children in the world.
This reality paints a very bleak picture of the future. Whether we like it or not, amputation represents a societal disability more than an individual one. This means that a society already burdened with problems has been burdened with a serious, chronic issue that will undoubtedly reshape it in the future, or perhaps it already has.
Nahid Rana is yet to play international cricket in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand or England. That’s a mouth watering prospect if he continues on the upward trend.