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This is the KGV Sports Ground, established in 1935 with the first Cricket match there taking place in June 1939(and this ground was subsequently essentially destroyed during the German occupation of the island in WW2 and had to be rebuilt almost from scratch).

This ground is situated in the British Crown Dependency of Guernsey, right off the coast of France in the English Channel.

The second slide is the pavilion which was opened in 1986 by none other than Princess Anne(the sister of the current British King and the sole daughter of Queen Elizabeth) herself and was redeveloped later from 2016-2020.

Here is the ground in all its glory at the Finals of the 2024 T20 WC Europe Subregional Qualifier C between Guernsey and Denmark. (Guernsey beat Denmark by 6 wickets and went on to play the Europe Regional Finals courtesy a 65-run partnership in 41 balls between Stokes and Butler(yes) for those interested about the result)

She hit 19 fours and 0 sixes(damn).

Perry was on the other end with 19*(22), neither of them bowled tho.

We could honestly go for Megan Schutt as a cheap backup for 🔔, she's in some good form recently.

Also, Yash Dayal is playing for UP, he'll probably play for RCB in 2027 now that he doesn't have cases on him, he was in an RCB training camp as well last month afaik.

As part of the 100 years of sports cooperation between India & New Zealand, in a historic first New Zealand U20 Boys & Girls team will be visiting India from 22nd to 28th October 2026 to play a Rugby Series with Indian U20 teams at the Rajgir Sports Complex, Rajgir Bihar.

As part of the 100 years of sports cooperation between India & New Zealand, in a historic first, the U20 Men’s and Women’s teams from New Zealand will be visiting India from 22nd to 28th October 2026 to play a Rugby Series with Indian U20 teams at the Rajgir Sports Complex, Rajgir, Bihar.

The visiting squads – Tama Toa, the men’s team, and Hine Toa, the women’s team – comprise 24 young Māori players selected from across New Zealand and will be supported by a six-member management group. The tour will provide the players with an opportunity to train, compete and exchange knowledge and cultures with their Indian counterparts.

The programme will include joint training sessions, squad-based match activities and cultural and community engagements alongside the Indian U20 squads.

The tour will culminate on 27 October, with four competitive Sevens matches. The programme will feature a men’s match between India and New Zealand, followed by the women’s match and two mixed matches bringing players from both teams together.

(taken from the Rugby India post about it on their website)

They will defend their title in 2027 on home soil as they're the hosts for the 2027 and 2028 editions of the tournament.

Something to note is that USA and Canada, the winners and runners-up of the inaugural edition(aka the last edition) did not participate this year because their boards are suspended currently. I hope they return next year tho.

There was a good upset when Cayman Islands beat Bermuda earlier on in the tournament as well.

(couldn't find a good graphic for this match so had to post this)

THIS is what T20 leagues do. Growing the sport.

Edit: As I've found out, this was not actually fully sold out but it was close to being a sell-out crowd.

China's stats are on the last slide.

Indian edition of "Brazil numero uno" lol

This is apparently the HQ of Heilan, a Chinese fashion company.

Seeing associates losing by such margins every day is genuinely sad, Indonesia are on debut so they can be excused ig.

Very sad to see honestly, Thailand desperately needs more capable batters.

Pics courtesy FNB Namibia Cricket Ground, Facebook.

Kenya destroying Namibia like that is a welcome change and so is Uganda taking a good Nigerian side semi close(in terms of wickets).

Most people probably don't know much about the Thailand women's team but their bowling is very decent, the likes of Phannita Maya, Thipatcha Putthawong, Suleeporn Laomi, Onnicha Kamchomphu and Sunida Chaturongrattana is one of the best Associate bowling lineups in the world.

Their batting is definitely very weak, key players are former captain Nannapat Koncharoenkai, the current captain Naruemol Chaiwai and their best batter who is Natthakan Chantham(even played in the FairBreak T20 league in India a couple years back).

I said I'd update at ~Day 5 and here we are lol

Turkey thought he was tough and Serbia kinda ignored my peace so there's that.

When Turkey said that he was "taking what is rightfully mine", he meant some bumfuck border islands and Limassol(he was deadass charging at a defending recon unit with singular infantry FOUR TIMES lol).

I'll keep y'all posted ig, will post the aftermath by Day ~5. Turkey is a genuine noob tho and Serbia's dumbass lost tons of units to bots so I have hope that I win.

Not some insane news but since nothing is on, the best we can do is follow the performances of our players in other leagues. Best of luck to both of them!

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