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Last match of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Region Final is currently underway, with Italy batting first against the Netherlands. If Italy either wins this match, or lose it by a small margin then they qualify for the T20I World Cup of 2026. But ramifications of a win today is much more than that. Participation fee for the 2024 T20I World Cup was $225,000 and additionally, $31,154 per match was distributed among the winners of each match. And these amounts are much higher than the annual funding received by Italy from the ICC.

Italy lost this match by a big margin, In fact the Netherlands team won it by 9 wickets. But good luck for them that even after having a poor defeat, they qualified for the T20 World Cup that would be played next year in India. This is Italy first ever participation in any ICC tournament and man they are happy. Their captain Joe Burns told the media that they gonna win every match they play in the world cup. High ambitions from the captain and the team.

Anyways, I felt sad for the Scotland team. I really wished they would have Qualified with Netherlands, but that didn't happen. They play more better cricket than Italy but somehow can't make it.

I would be really happy to see a new team in an ICC tournament. Most of us may not be familiar with Italian cricket. Even I am not familiar with Italian cricket at all. But today I was a little surprised and happy to see this news about Italy in the local media. Because, we are going to get to know a new team in the ICC tournament. After the bad news in Italian football, the good news in cricket is definitely bringing some food to the minds of Italian fans. I think, to increase the popularity of cricket, it is necessary to increase the number of teams in ICC tournaments, especially in T20. Then maybe we will be able to get to know new teams like Italy and the number of cricket fans in the world will increase.

Yes , you are right. We are watching very less teams in the ICC tournaments but we want good matches and good competition between teams. Only 15 to 20 countries are interested to play cricket and 10 countries are playing cricket on low to high level and 5 countries are producing high quality players because they are investing money on cricket and players because they are earning best from that cricket.

India is on the top because most of the fans of the World are from India because that is second biggest country in case of population.No other country is producing that kind of players but Italy is new name on cricket but cricket should be famous all over the World then we will get good players like Ab D Villiers and Rohit Sharma and number of other players.

Right, this is very good Italy has secured a place in the 2026 ICC T20 tournaments. Italy is doing comparatively well and we can expect more from them in the 2026 T20 tournaments. European countries are known to us through playing football but gradually Italy has proven that they are not just stopping at football but are also making themselves proficient in the game of cricket. ICC World Rankings Italy is ranked 28th which is comparatively very good. I believe Italy will perform better to move up its Rankings.

I will take time to improve the performance of team to make eligible for the ODI World Cup but that team could participate in the T20 World Cup tournament if players played well in the all matches which they will play against teams . But preference of people always matters a lot to improve the team . The example is in front of us because many teams which are the top are improving day by day . I am taking about Australia and England. These countries invented this game and played first match of history and they are also top teams of the World. Italy team should hire coaches of that country then they could improve their performance like Afghanistan team .We saw high improvement in Afghanistan cricket with facing hard conditions.