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Associate Nations have shown they can run with the big dogs and lift their leg
February 26, 2026
|The Mercury
IT'S become almost customary to switch on the television and tune into 120 cricket being played somewhere in the world.
Be it the IPL, Betway SA20, Big Bash, CPL, PSL, T20 Blast, ILT20, MLC, GLT20, The Hundred, BPL or Nepal T20 League, there will be someone bowling slower balls and cutters trying to deceive a batter aiming to smash the ball out of the ground.
It would be fair to suggest that the avalanche of T20 cricket has made it addictive.
Fans want it as much as they crave sugar.
So, when the ICC decided to schedule three matches a day during the group stages of the ongoing T20 World Cup, it was manna from heaven. Cricket on telly virtually 12 hours a day.
I had my own selfish reasons for being excited about the expanded fixture list though. 10 years ago, when the T20 World Cup was held in selfsame India, eight teams featured in the two preliminary groups, from which two qualified for the Super 10s where the likes of England, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan, India, etc lay in wait.
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