'FIXED Fixtures!' FIVE Things That NEED to Change For the 2026 T20 World Cup🤔| Bumble & Kimber

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In today's episode, Bumble & Kimber discuss the five things that need to change for the 2026 World Cup and why the ICC should stop scheduling India to play Pakistan in World Cups.

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[marathiboi]

as an Indian, I'd rather see, India vs England, India vs Newzealand, India vs Australia more than India vs pakistan. India vs pakistan is not even a rivalry, It's just a political fight in cricket ground.

[larrygerry]

Don't have a T20 WC every 2 years

[master_oogwayy]

ICC is overdoing the T20WCs. 3 T20 WCs in last 4 years! Its not good for the game.

[sumitchaudhary]

Most Indian fans find this pre fixing of venues and prime time TV in India totally absurd and ridiculous. Neither was the Indian team happy about it. But hey.. Its a capitalist world. I don't mind it if financially weaker boards can make more money and pay their cricketers better, improve cricket infrastructure.

[mklsingh]

You should also discuss the advantages England has been getting by having the WTC final in England, it's another thing that they haven't been able to qualify for the final....

[Spashth]

Completely agree bro, fed up with this India Pakistan match extreme madness. And the pressure on players is really damaging. I wish they never meet in at least one World cup.

[durjoybarua]

The last match day matches should start at the same time to prevent teams intentionally knock out another team.

[SamDos-fhvw]

England have the wtc ground fixed but still can't qualify

[prithviroy]

England had 5 spinners in their squad, it's not rocket science to pick spinners when slow pitches are the norm in the Caribbean. Guyana isn't the only spin friendly stadium.

[ksundares]

Did these guys cry about the atrocious rules in England for ODI World Cup 2019 in the final - most boundaries or sixes winning the Cup/umpiring errors of Overthrows?

[thiruvetti]

ICC used India to churn money out of NY but ended up putting us under the shittiest pitches in the tournament. India could have called it a conspiracy to knock us out of the WC after getting American money right??

Did u hear ICT complain about pitches even once? If India gets what it wants, shouldnt all pitches been made proper T20 style batting ptiches??

[SamDos-fhvw]

Norman just skipped Australia and England match quietly.

[harifederer]

Oh yawn stop moaning. Was it fair that India had to play on cr*p pitches in NY before coming to to the Carribean and playing teams that were already used to the pitches/conditions there? Also re the Guyana thing, do you seriously think India were not going to pick spinners if they didn’t know where their semi final fixture was? I mean c’mon Jared, you’re smarter than that.

[rajatsingh]

India played 9 league games at 9 different locations in the last ODI wc nobody cried at that time

[nightwatchman]

That last bit of discussion was amateurish, not the aus-sco situation. If you have a group stage where nrr matters, such a situation is always possible by the simple virtue of the fact that matches are held chronologically. So in the final matches teams know what they need to achieve to qualify or disqualify other teams. What's the solution - to hold all matches simultaneously? Ridiculous "discussion"

[SohamBhattacharya]

England and Australia don't play each other "fairly often" in ICC tournaments. They play each other literally just as often as India play Pakistan. 2015 ODI WC, 2017 Champions Trophy, 2021 T20WC, 2022 T20WC and now in 2024 as well. Every time England and Australia have been put in the same group.

[batman]

i never heard you people discussing why wtc has to be played in england? why it's not possible in SA? SL? IND? BAN? ECB need money here right? because everybody knows England is trash test team . mostly it's ind/aus/nz these 3 comes at top.

[shahedhussain]

Britain the fallen empire wants to change the rules now😂

[bikramhore]

8:05 this bunch of foolish people did not say anything 😡 during 2023 wc where india travel 10 grounds for wc campaign

[maneeshsrivastava]

Where were these arguments last year 2023 world cup?