Overview
- The Icelandic Cricket Association posted on X: “Venezuela has oil. Greenland has rare Earth minerals. Luckily Iceland has only volcanoes, glaciers, and very average cricketers.”
- The account later updated the joke, saying players preferred being called “seriously underwhelming,” and the post’s edit history reflected the change.
- The association is not an ICC member but is known for witty social-media commentary that often pokes fun at itself and broader geopolitics.
- The commentary referenced fresh U.S. action in Caracas, where low-flying aircraft and at least seven blasts were reported and strikes appeared to hit military sites, according to AP-cited reports.
- Trump said the United States would “run” Venezuela until a transition and spoke of major American firms extracting oil, while Maduro is jailed in New York on narco‑terrorism charges and Delcy Rodríguez was named acting president in Caracas.