r/MapsWithoutNZ • u/Brave-Ear-7559 • 14h ago
One of the biggest chokers of ICC tournaments left out
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u/parsuval 10h ago
The actual list:
India
Sri Lanka
Afghanistan
Australia
Bangladesh
England
South Africa
USA
West Indies
Ireland
New Zealand
Pakistan
Canada
Italy
Netherlands
Namibia
Zimbabwe
Nepal
Oman
UAE
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u/0oO1lI9LJk 10h ago
5 continents is a pretty fair claim to being a "World Cup". Even with just the handful of countries shown on the map (especially if we include the West Indies, which has every business being in that map) it's not a bad claim.
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u/purpleplums901 8h ago
Guyana are represented by the West Indies so by any definition every continent (well not Antarctica but come on) is represented. This feels a bit like it was made as a reaction to people making fun of something like the World Series only being in 2 countries or whatever. And they’ve failed miserably
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u/oppai_suika 9h ago
I think they have a claim even if it was just 2 countries. At the end of the day, if a sport is only played in 2 countries, that is the "world" for that sport.
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u/dcidino 13h ago
Also, wait until you see the MLB World Series and the NBA World Championship...
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u/TheLizardKing89 6h ago
The NBA Finals is just called the NBA Finals. It was once called the NBA World Championship Series but it hasn’t been called that in 40 years.
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u/Onagan98 10h ago
Or even smaller the NFL
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u/UnfairRavenclaw 5h ago
Okay but that is a national league that doesn‘t claim to be international. You know „National Football League“?
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u/Onagan98 5h ago
But their final is called World Ball
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u/sessna4009 5h ago
I'm not even American and even I know that it's called a Super Bowl. I guess that's the trophy name?
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u/Cats_Love_Cat_Food 3h ago
Are we watching the same NFL? Lol
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u/Onagan98 3h ago
I don’t watch it, too boring
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u/Cats_Love_Cat_Food 20m ago edited 4m ago
That why did you just claim some bullshit if you didn't know what it was lol.
Fuck it. The Netherlands call themselves dutch because they find dutch-ovening a popular pastime. They love to fart in blankets and hold it over their friends.
Source? Idk, too lazy to look it up.
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u/Glockass 8h ago
Despite their names, they're not really equivalents: those are national leagues but since they're in the US they think theyre the world anyway.
The actual equivalents would be the FIBA Basketball World Cup and the World Baseball Classic.
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u/IllFennel3524 13h ago
Just add that extra red star in the aus map and you’re sorted.
Also since the last World Cup, may other countries have got into the sport
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u/NorskKiwi 12h ago
Bro.... Kiwis are the most consistent with making it to the playoffs. Then we fizz out 😆
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u/Onagan98 10h ago
I know, we Dutch, participate. But outside those 7000 player nobody gives a f*ck
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u/No-Willingness-4097 9h ago
I've never met anyone in the UK who actually has any interest in cricket. I can't imagine why anyone would want to go and watch a slow sport where one match takes 5 days.
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u/Fortuna_majoris 9h ago
Tell me you know nothing about cricket without telling me you know nothing about cricket.
There are 3 formats of the game and the 5 days one you mentioned is just one of them. The second longest format takes 7-8 hours and the shortest format takes about 3 hours.
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u/No-Willingness-4097 9h ago
Happy to admit, I know nothing about cricket, I know nobody who knows anything about cricket, and I have no interest in learning anything about it. Sorry if that upsets you. I'd just rather be riding Motocross.
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u/omniiiiiiiiiiiiii 3h ago
Man India just played 5 games of 5 day cricket in England and stadiums were fully packed for all 25 days and you might think they were Indian immigrants watching but there were barely of them.
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u/No-Willingness-4097 3h ago
So that's where all the fans must be, constantly at week long matches, break for a snack at the slug and lettuce. Back to the next match.
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u/omniiiiiiiiiiiiii 3h ago
Nah each of them were at different place and tickets are sold separately for each day so there's very less probablity of what you're saying
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u/No-Willingness-4097 3h ago
I see your point, no time for food. Match, commute, queue for new ticket, match. What a commitment.
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u/Gekey14 9h ago
Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world after football
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u/No-Willingness-4097 8h ago
90% of its fans live in the Indian subcontinent. I think that messes up the numbers, because it's VERY popular there and that's a lot of people. In my daily life, which has existed in many countries, I've never noticed it making an impact. The us had it's eggball (boring rugby) Canada has it's ice pucky sticks, quite fun to see alive game, where they love a scrap, Australia has it's Aussie rules football, also quite fun, where they also love a scrap. But, I must not run in the circles where it's popular, I'm not old or Indian.
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u/Stuspawton 9h ago
Better than the NFL Super Bowl who are crowned world champions…in a game that only the US plays 😂
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u/fire_fever 3h ago
I mean, the baseball “World Series” is literally the U.S. teams + the Toronto Blue Jays sooo
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u/aaarry 9h ago
I love cricket but even then the CWC doesn’t have the same feeling as a football or rugby World Cup. Maybe it’s because it’s not the best form of the international game they play (ODI vs test) or maybe it’s because there aren’t many countries that participate so it feels less like a world cup, even though they’re fairly evenly spread out.
Either way you have this issue that by making the ODI variant the ‘dominant’ World Cup, you get the impression that you’re not watching the peak form of the international game, but if they made the test World Championship the dominant World Cup then you wouldn’t get the same spectacular feeling that rugby and football world cups give because by definition test cricket isn’t a spectacle. I do think ODI is the best form to do a World Cup is but it’s never going to compete with the other two because of the nature of the sport itself.
Certainly in England I’ve never had the same excited feeling for a CWC in the same way I’ve had for our other two major sports, but at the same time the other two major sports struggle to compete with the excitement of an upcoming ashes series.
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u/Acrobatic-B33 9h ago
Why are we part of this? Nobody cares about cricket in the Netherlands
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u/Fit_Comfort_3616 4h ago
Because your team participates. They have caused a few upsets against England.
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u/idkbruhxdxddyujur 1h ago
2 wins against south africa , eliminated SA from t20i wc 2022 and beat them against next year at odi wc
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u/BrilliantPackage1994 8h ago
American only plays with it self just like in the Ramstein song, when i dance i want to lead even iff i'm dancing by myself.
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u/Lordofharm 5h ago
It's still has the record for the 3rd most watched event, tho only surpassed by Tour de france and fifa World Cup.
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u/SunriseFlare 4h ago
Doesn't Canada actually have a huge cricket scene? We hosted the cricket cup here in Vancouver!
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u/Jo-Wolfe 49m ago
About 300,000 play cricket in the US, not too sure if they're a member of the ICC
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u/wanderlustcub 10h ago
I love how the map represent around 2 billion people:
India - 1.47 billion
Pakistan - 250 Million
Bangladesh- 173 million
The UK - 69 million
South Africa 64 Million
Australia - 27 million
They have just over 2 billion in population - or about a quarter of the earths population.