ICC Test World Cup in 2013?
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So what? Many people that I know who do not watch cricket have this problem with test cricket that they cant accept a game that takes 5 days to complete and has the possibility of a result not happening. You play 5 days and not have a result? This is what they think. According to me, draws need to be eliminated and if it takes eliminators like this, so be it.
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Or just decide by who scored more runs by losing less wicket, less overs in 1st innings.. something like that.
TumTum
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Tbh those people don't care about cricket or who wins anyway, so what is the point of pleasing them?
Nice, let the ideas flow,we shall take them to the ICC soon.
5 over eliminator can be made interesting by ensuring that each over has atleast 2 dot balls
The 5 over bowl-out, well you can consider the pace of the bowlers too.
AkshayS
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Agree with the bonus points and draw system.
Give +1 point who takes the first innings lead for a draw IMO.
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The ICC has approved the creation of a league-style Test Championship and redrawn the lines of one-day cricket as part of an extensive restructuring of the international game that also includes a reduced 50-over World Cup and an enlarged World Twenty20 event. The proposals - laid out by the ICC's chief executive committee last month - were approved by the board at its meeting in Dubai on Wednesday.
The Future Tours Programme (FTP) will now comprise a Test league running over four years with the top four teams at the end of each period qualifying for a play-off event. The first play-off is scheduled for 2013, the same year England are due to host the Ashes, and Lord's is the favoured venue for the final.
A one-day cricket league - mirroring the existing team rankings - will also be part of the FTP, starting in April 2011 and running over four years to culminate in the crowning of the first ODI league champion in April 2014.
The league will run separately from the World Cup, the ICC's flagship event, which has been reduced to 10 teams for the 2015 tournament. The 2011 World Cup, to be held in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, will include 14 countries and run from February 19 to April 2. The lengthy tournament is itself a smaller version than the 2007 event, which was widely criticised for including 16 sides and taking too long.
A 10-team tournament effectively makes it much harder for any of the Associate countries to qualify (the 2011 event has four Associate teams), and the ICC has asked its governing council to examine the issue of qualification for ICC global events, as well as opportunities for Associate members to play ODIs, and make recommendations to the board.
The World Twenty20 event will be expanded to 16 teams from the 2012 tournament, due to be staged in Sri Lanka. The success of smaller nations like Netherlands and Afghanistan in Twenty20 cricket prompted the expansion of the tournament, which will continue to have the women's event played alongside it
"Restructuring international cricket is a significant strategic challenge and one that must be dealt with," Haroon Lorgat, ICC chief executive, said. "We have now agreed in principle to exciting and far reaching proposals to tackle this important issue."
The Future Tours Programme (FTP) will now comprise a Test league running over four years with the top four teams at the end of each period qualifying for a play-off event. The first play-off is scheduled for 2013, the same year England are due to host the Ashes, and Lord's is the favoured venue for the final.
A one-day cricket league - mirroring the existing team rankings - will also be part of the FTP, starting in April 2011 and running over four years to culminate in the crowning of the first ODI league champion in April 2014.
The league will run separately from the World Cup, the ICC's flagship event, which has been reduced to 10 teams for the 2015 tournament. The 2011 World Cup, to be held in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, will include 14 countries and run from February 19 to April 2. The lengthy tournament is itself a smaller version than the 2007 event, which was widely criticised for including 16 sides and taking too long.
A 10-team tournament effectively makes it much harder for any of the Associate countries to qualify (the 2011 event has four Associate teams), and the ICC has asked its governing council to examine the issue of qualification for ICC global events, as well as opportunities for Associate members to play ODIs, and make recommendations to the board.
The World Twenty20 event will be expanded to 16 teams from the 2012 tournament, due to be staged in Sri Lanka. The success of smaller nations like Netherlands and Afghanistan in Twenty20 cricket prompted the expansion of the tournament, which will continue to have the women's event played alongside it
"Restructuring international cricket is a significant strategic challenge and one that must be dealt with," Haroon Lorgat, ICC chief executive, said. "We have now agreed in principle to exciting and far reaching proposals to tackle this important issue."
sohum
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Waste of time having an ODI league and a World Cup running parellel. Dilutes the importance of both events because if a team misses the World Cup, they can always think we can become the ODI league champions. Being champions in a format should be through only one showpiece event, and that should be the WORLD CUP.
Eager to see how the test league is structured. ICC should force their members to decide on particular venues (where attendance is high for tests) to be designated for test cricket and make sure the other venues are not considered. A Mohali test match which India won by 1 wicket saw poor crowds. Venues like that shouldnt be awarded tests (no matter how good their wickets are).
Eager to see how the test league is structured. ICC should force their members to decide on particular venues (where attendance is high for tests) to be designated for test cricket and make sure the other venues are not considered. A Mohali test match which India won by 1 wicket saw poor crowds. Venues like that shouldnt be awarded tests (no matter how good their wickets are).
AARRONN
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Test cricket is awesome!!!
all you twenty20 fans out there have no idea what test cricket is about.
test cricket is all about
TIMING & PLACEMENT for the batsmen
SWING & ACCURACY for the bowler
put those four things together and its a seriously good battle between bat and ball!!!
tweny20 cricket is like an american baseball game!!
swing at the ball and pray for the best... it takes no talent to play!
all you twenty20 fans out there have no idea what test cricket is about.
test cricket is all about
TIMING & PLACEMENT for the batsmen
SWING & ACCURACY for the bowler
put those four things together and its a seriously good battle between bat and ball!!!
tweny20 cricket is like an american baseball game!!
swing at the ball and pray for the best... it takes no talent to play!
BKB1991
Panel of Selectors
I hope you are not serious mate. Yea I get it that after 5 long days we have no clear winner, but the result does not always matter. I mean surely you were entertained for 5 days. And a draw would beat a bowl out winner any day for me.
I am not really sure how this tournament maps up. I cant see us having a proper TEST championship tournament-style or something, but I think the best thing would be to have a proper cycle of say four years or so. I think it makes sense if you reduce the number of teams to four in the championship, but at the same time, that would mean going on the rankings, and with the teams being very close it could also be unfair.
The practical solution that I believe what we could do, is to divide the teams into pools of 4+5. Top 4 teams in one pool A (IND, ENG, SAF & AUS) and the rest in Pool B (SRI, PAK, NZL, WI & BAN). Each year you play each team in your pool in a series of three TESTs, with the top 2 in Pool A playing in the TEST Championship final (it could be a 6 Day final or a 3 Match series), and the bottom team in Pool A being relegated, as well as the top team in Pool B getting promoted. It could be feasible as it would be like 9 TESTs per team in Pool A, and 12 TESTs per team in Pool B. We could also change the cycle to be of two years, and the teams could play each other at home and away.
Sri Lanka and Pakistan (even NZ and WI) wont agree to such an idea. No one wants to get relegated to a pool where they have to play the small and not so popular test nations. Everyone wants to play Australia, India or SA (to an extent England too). They get their big money from these top billing series.
