Cricket Counterfactuals

[subshakerz]

Going into alternate history a bit.

How would national cricket have evolved if the following seminal events were changed?

India lost the Calcutta test in 2001 against Australia? Would India have risen as a cricket power to the same degree?

WI lost the series to Pakistan at home in 1988 in the final tight test? Would it have hastened a quicker decline for the WI?

Pakistan list the 86 Sharjah Cup in the India final with the last ball six by Miandad. Would Pakistan have been as competitive in ODIs after that?

NZ beaten Aus in the 2015 WC final. Would NZ be more competitive against Aus after that in cricket generally?

Can you think of other counterfactuals with big impact?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Misbah scoops the ball for 6 and there's no IPL.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

If England had beaten Bangladesh in pool play in the 2015 CWC they would've made the 1/4 finals and then not revamped their ODI side thus missing the 2019 semifinals.

 

[honestbharani]

Misbah scoops the ball for 6 and there's no IPL.

Its counterfactuals, not fantasy.

No one can scoop a ball bowled that slow for a 6.

 

[TheJediBrah]

If England never colonised the sub-continent the influence of spin bowling on cricket would be greatly reduced