SENA is such a nonsense metric and yet it has permeated into general cricket discourse without any real pushback.

Andre Fletcher was the highest priced player at this year's ILT20 draft. After 9 rounds he has yet to play a game. Mumbai Indians Emirates have now signed fellow West Indian batter Alick Athanaze to the squad for reasons they have not explained. Make it make sense.

Looks like Kirstie did exactly that! Welcome back to the Scotland set-up. Now we just need some home games for her to play in...

Seems relevant to repost this today.

SAT20 2026 Player Age Curve (% increase/decrease on 2025) 19/113 - <24 - 16.8% (-5.7%) 42/113 - 24-29 - 37.2% (+5.7%) 33/113 - 30-34 - 29.2% (+1.3%) 19/113 - 35+ - 16.8% (-1.3%) A big drop in young players signed up to this year's SAT20 as most franchises opt for established overseas names. 1/

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Some chat on IPL 2026 auction in relation to age curves and Player Availability Release Fees now the 2026 auction is done. For those new to PARF, below is a quick explainer thread going through how they work and the financial impact to national cricket boards in last year's mega auction draft. 1/

Some chat on IPL 2026 auction in relation to age curves and Player Availability Release Fees now the 2026 auction is done. For those new to PARF, below is a quick explainer thread going through how they work and the financial impact to national cricket boards in last year's mega auction draft. 1/

India's political class and their obsession with being seen with stars over developing sport is unhealthy. Building a 21m statue to Messi and farcical events are comical now, but if India continues on this path the '30 Commonwealths and '36 Olympics (if hosting) will be global embarrassments.

"A global sport whose financial viability hinges on a single domestic market, a single set of advertisers, and a single conglomerate’s tolerance for losses is not governed. It is blackmailed." www.cricketetal.com/p/india-snee...

Every once in a while it is good to get a reminder that test cricket is more than just three teams.

International Pensioner League T20 continues to underwhelm as the auction's highest priced player, Andre Fletcher, doesn't make the starting XI for MIE's first game. Neither does Jordan Thompson or Shakib Al Hasan (MIE's 3rd & 4th highest priced players in the auction). $348K of money well spent.

International League T20 2025 player age profile: 20/137 - <24 41/137 - 24-29 47/137 - 30-34 29/137 - 35+ More than 1 in 5 players involved is over the age of 35. International Pensioner League T20 would be a better name if the acronym was not already taken.

Highlights of the Bangladesh Premier League auction: 1. Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah do not get picked at the auction. 2. Ishtiaque Sadeque (BCB director and BPL franchise CEO) requests them both to be auctioned again. 3. Ishtiaque only picks Mahmudullah for his franchise second time round.

Dre Russell was one of the main examples I used in my T20 demographics crisis pieces. Now he has retired from international duty and IPL within the space of a few months.

NZC have been suckered into chasing the short term (but much needed) dollars ahead of long-term development. Trading in the Super Smash for the NZT20 is not a case of trading gold for silver but trading silver for boxes of kiwi fruit - which will sadly go off before NZC can get a return on them. 1/

NZC have been suckered into chasing the short term (but much needed) dollars ahead of long-term development. Trading in the Super Smash for the NZT20 is not a case of trading gold for silver but trading silver for boxes of kiwi fruit - which will sadly go off before NZC can get a return on them. 1/

A key line here is the ICC are warning members to expect a 30% decrease in revenue over the next funding cycle. Add to a depreciating US dollar effectively acting as a additional cut in funding the immediate future for sport globally looks grim.

Scotland's women make it three wins from three in the Emerging Nations tournament and six consecutive wins. They are building that momentum nicely even if they are missing K. Bryce. Carter is in great form too. Four 50+ scores in those six games. This is turning into a breakout tournament for her.

Men's T20 World Cup groups released via media outlets rather than through the ICC themselves. Amateur hour. Cricket is not a serious sport.

Cricinfo has ball-by-ball updates for the Abu Dhabi T10 and Nepal Premier League but no live updates for the Women's Emerging Nations tournament which is an ICC event. All the talk about the 'new dawn' and 'transformation' of Women's cricket globally after the WC Final has lasted just 18 days.

West Indies Super 50 begins today - minus 15 players away with the first team in NZ and at least 15 players away in the Abu Dhabi T10. Is it any wonder why WI struggle so hard at the 50 over format when 30 of their players aren't playing in their own domestic 50 over competition?

The only thing I learned from the IPL retentions/trades is that it, and by extension franchise cricket as a whole, really has little imagination or thought process.

ODI Super League being back is a positive step, but from the ICC's press release it sounds like it will be like the WTC - only for the full members. Guaranteed series between the Big 3, series against smaller nations not guaranteed to be completed or funded and no promotion/relegation with the WCL.

A very good opening day for Ireland against Bangladesh given how little red ball cricket they get. Balbirnie is desperate for a run in red ball cricket though. His form is in a bad place.

I'm surprised the ICC decided to recycle the Project USA name given how badly the original 2004 Project USA went. It started with the ICC advancing $50K to USACA without oversight despite concerns about board governance. The money vanished without a trace. Things did not get better from there.

The ICC's additional 10% funding for associate nations is welcome. For Scotland that is around $150-200K which is a helpful boost but it's already mostly been eaten up by inflation and devaluation of the US dollar over the last year.

Now it is NZ's turn to try and fight off an overvalued franchise league which will never make any money or aid in domestic cricket development. www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360878...

India win the World Cup but now the BCCI faces it's toughest test. Can it pay the players their prize money in a timely fashion? Last time it took 18 months, several media articles and the players having to invoice the BCCI themselves directly to get it.

A positive step for WCPL, but a franchise team from the USA will struggle a lot in their first few years. The overseas players will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

This is the closest WI have come to a complete, all-round performance in 2025. Batting tactics spot on. Bowling mostly good. Fielding great. The only blight was WI letting the game drift, allowing Bangladesh to get closer than they should have. Otherwise, WI were in control for nearly the whole game

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... "...a spokesperson for the International Cricket Council said the Australian side had "breached protocols" by allowing players to leave unescorted." To date, the only response the ICC I could find is a spokesperson blaming the players for going to a cafe at 11 am.

While Australian women's team dominate performance over South Africa should be the story of the day, this unfortunately (but quite rightly) will be the story of the day.

This Bangladesh vs West Indies ODI series is a great advert for associate cricket.

Ah... so this may be the format which be pushed to get rid of ODIs? It has not been thought through, the fourth innings chase is going to be pointless for majority of games. Betting man will be happy though. Look at all the extra opportunities for score manipulation there will be!

Big day for Namibian cricket. Once a territory playing in the South African domestic system. Now an independent nation playing their first match against their former administrators as equals.

Beth Mooney looked at who she was playing today and thought: 'No way we losing to Pakistan. Not on my watch.' It's been an innings of extreme quality and self-confidence. You love to see it.

Despite the big fluff piece from Cricexec, the organisers of the European T20 Premier League are still in fantasy land. 200,000 spectators expected in the first season? That's over 6000 per game! For starters, only Malahide can host that many people.

A really poor choice to have Modi stadium to host WI vs India. There's 10-15K fans in the ground. Mohali would have been better and needed less travel from both teams on packed schedules.

37 year-old Andre Fletcher going for the highest price of the ILT20 auction so far ($260K) shows these owners/recruitment teams only pick established names based on performances seen from highlights reels.

This Nepal-WI T20 series very much has the feel of the USA-Bangladesh T20 and not in a good way. The results were almost a full copy-paste of it. Something is not right here.

Well done to Nepal for their first win over a full member side but let's speak the realness here. This was a weaker WI team than the A side that toured Nepal last year and won 3-2. This result should be of no surprise to anyone who looked at the squad WI have picked for this series.

It's good to see Wisden finally start to pick up on cricket's demographic crisis. Yes they are only talking about Australia here (the Ashes is all that matters etc.) but they are getting there. Baby steps and all.

Tymal Mills plays in the CPL for 2 games and takes 2 wickets for 69 runs from his 8 overs. Instead of bringing in a 33-year-old from overseas St. Lucia Kings might as well have picked a regional youth player.

A reminder that India have not played a bilateral series against an associate nation since 2007. Every other full member has played at least one since 2022.

Stat of the WCPL 2025 - Jahzara Claxton's bowling WI-SA T20 series in June - 3 games, 12 overs, 3 wickets WCPL 2025 - 4 games, 6 overs, 2 wickets WI's young bowling talent got half as many overs in her domestic franchise competition as she did in her last series for the WI team. #wcpl

Second time in this game the players have forgotten there are DRS reviews available to them. #wcpl

Baseball has the Mendoza line, WI women's cricket's equivalent is the Gajnabi line. #wcpl

Kofi James, Jyd Goolie, Kevlon Anderson, Amir Jangoo, Kevin Wickham, Shaqkere Parris and Alick Athanaze so far have batted 21 times between them in this year's CPL. These are meant to be the region's future batting talents. CPL prioritises playing 35 year-olds over developing youth prospects.

GAW needed 44 runs off 36 balls with 9 wickets remaining and they lost. A truly phenomenal display of choking even South Africa would have been proud of. #wcpl