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While cricket has spent ten years debating whether Ireland should be allowed to play Zimbabwe, other sports have conquered emerging markets, embedded themselves in cultures and grown all around the world. |
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There's the headquarters in Dubai and then there's a seperate entity which fetaures representatives from the test playing nations. The latter has more power than the staff working in the so called ICC HQ. This raises another question: what is the purpose of the ICC? Is it to filter self interest through their national representatives or to serve the game of cricket beyond simply the financial incentives. It is one of the oddest governing bodies of any sport and one, which in essence, does not currently govern anything with the power of the big three overriding the power of the ICC staff. However, the issues and possible outcomes raised in the last meeting could add something positive to the sport, not just the purse strings of a select few. The proposed 9-3 test system (9 main test playing nations and 3 bottom tier nations) not only adds context and something to work towards for fans and players alike but also the possibility that 5-10 years down the line there could be two genuine test tables with promotions and relegations with at least another 7 test playing nations. Sadly, all of this only works if the structure of the ICC actually becomes...coherent at least.
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Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe in an ODI today. Won by D/L but a win's a win and all that.
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I didn't think there was much question that Afghanistan's a better ODI team than Zimbabwe.
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One team that doesn't play test cricket beats a side that shouldn't play test cricket in a shortened ODI tells us what?
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About a quarter of the world's population are in countries that play cricket. It's hardly struggling for potential audiences. Spread it to other countries through t20 and one day cricket, not by a colonial era demand that they are only worthy of full member status if the arbitrary standard of five day cricket.
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This summer will be interesting as some of the full members are playing a few games against the likes of Ireland and Scotland as warm-ups for the CT but will those teams get the same number of matches next year?
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This is the point about the utterly self-serving decision not to promote cricket by having a t20 tournament in the Olympics. People from other parts of the world who have no background to liking cricket are hardly going to get interest in a highly nuanced game such as test cricket that has next to no following outside the core countries and even a marginal one in many countries where test cricket is played. Yet one of the reasons not to go for it was that it would have caused too much disruption to the County Championship.
Rugby Union has hardly been the most progressive sport over the years, yet they had a superb 7s tournament in Rio. The Chinese have shown interest in t20 and it would be the ideal way to introduce the game to a wider audience.
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Well neither of those things are going to happen. T20 of any format is a great leveller and to me, by far the simplest way to introduce people to the game. In any case, if you played cricket when you were young 20 overs was the limit that you were likely to play simply because games would struggle to last that long and of course the ball didn't often tend to go over the boundary too much either. That said, it is not too different for my batting today.................
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This is from last year and suggests that there is something going on with help from India and Pakistan.
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Wrong thread, no?
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