ICC News: Restructuring the ICC, BCCI Influence & more

[_Sam_]

Just in case anyone missed it, none of the above has actually been put forward to the ICC.

 

[Satan666]

Just in case anyone missed it, none of the above has actually been put forward to the ICC.

Yeah but more or less it is from the ICC since England are part of the big three.

To put things in perspective we cant blame them, ICC is driven by making profits, test cricket is not making the kind of money these sinister leaders would like so to make it economical they decided to reduce it to four days, all this is due to the advent of T20 cricket as we can deduce from this member's post below,

A T20 is often too quick for me and after it came in, tests became too long for me.But these same people are OK with sitting through potentially endless amount of dull overs in test cricket. Test cricket is like a movie where I can doze off for a bit and then get back up and into the proceedings without any difficulty

He is saying basically with the advent of T20 ( not due to) cricket he has lost interest in test cricket. This is the same for the majority of followers of cricket

I also think that its a good idea to ruin the best form of cricket, just to earn more money from T20s.

Exactly to make more money from T20 cricket!

So initially they reduce test cricket till it just withers away, whilst simultaneously turning ODI into T 20 cricket!

 

[Satan666]

ECB moots four-day Tests, 40-over World Cup | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

God I hope this document discussions dies in the boardroom. We certainly dont need more dumb administrators who never played the game creating more crap for world cricket.

Lol, recall you posted a similar comment when the initial writings on the "Big Three" came out and we all see what has happened today, a cabal is running world cricket.

Just another phase in the fast painful death of test/ODI cricket as we know it!

 

[War]

Lol, recall you posted a similar comment when the initial writings on the "Big Three" came out and we all see what has happened today, a cabal is running world cricket.

Just another phase in the fast painful death of test/ODI cricket as we know it!

Man I'm not surprised anymore. Ian Chappell said it best recently Ian Chappell: How about a World Cup summit? | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo, problem is pretty much all admistrators at ICC level and majority of boards are fools. So

The few smart voices in cricket that are in ICC & like Chappell have no power in the world game to shape decisions. What is happening to this sport!

 

[Biggs]

The ICC can GTFO on this "10 Teams Only" concept...

Standings | Cricket World Cup 2015 - ICC Cricket | Official Website

Ireland ahead of England, Pakistan, West Indies, Australia and Zimbabwe. Afghanistan ahead of England, Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Not a scientific comparison by any shape of the imagination, but it sure is telling.

 

[MattW]

Zimbabwe v Ireland on Saturday will be very interesting.

The table including all teams:

 

[icyman]

England has been a force in Test matches. This can date as back as to the last decade wherein they started building a goodish side under Nasser. Vaughan, Strauss and Cook then took this side to greater heights in the long format and they are now comfortably perched atop the Test mace.

Not so much in ODIs. Why England does miserably at World Cups ? The answer lies in their fascination with the Test format. Since 1992, they haven't had a good ODI captain, bar a few. Gooch was very strong as a leader in both formats. But since then, the people who have led England at ICC events have been predominantly Test players- Atherton, Stewart, Hussain, Vaughan & Strauss.

Morgan has been a brave move, but the time hasn't gotten used to him. Their best bet was Pietersen with whom they have had a public fallout. Unless England sheds their Test fascination a little bit, they wont succeed in ODIs.

The ECB wanting a 40 over Cup is much in line with what they do in their domestic set-up. yes, this will make the games shorter and slightly bearable a for a few. 300 again will become a rarity and that could be the thinking behind the ECB's move. Personally, I would not advocate the same.

 

[War]

England has been a force in Test matches. This can date as back as to the last decade wherein they started building a goodish side under Nasser. Vaughan, Strauss and Cook then took this side to greater heights in the long format and they are now comfortably perched atop the Test mace.

Not so much in ODIs. Why England does miserably at World Cups ? The answer lies in their fascination with the Test format. Since 1992, they haven't had a good ODI captain, bar a few. Gooch was very strong as a leader in both formats. But since then, the people who have led England at ICC events have been predominantly Test players- Atherton, Stewart, Hussain, Vaughan & Strauss.

Morgan has been a brave move, but the time hasn't gotten used to him. Their best bet was Pietersen with whom they have had a public fallout. Unless England sheds their Test fascination a little bit, they wont succeed in ODIs.

The ECB wanting a 40 over Cup is much in line with what they do in their domestic set-up. yes, this will make the games shorter and slightly bearable a for a few. 300 again will become a rarity and that could be the thinking behind the ECB's move. Personally, I would not advocate the same.

If the ECB had gotten rid of Cook earlier from ODI team & let Morgan lead the team much earlier with other youngsters like Hales, Stokes, Vince, Roy namely and given them time to build, not foolishly axed KP and Swann not retired so soon, the current ENG W-Cup team/squad would have been the best ever sent to a ICC tournament:

Ali, KP, Taylor, Root, Morgan, Buttler, Stokes, Woakes, Swann, Broad, Finn

Hales, Bopara, Anderson, Jordan

 

[IceAgeComing]

swann wouldn't have been fit enough to have played last summer; never mind in this world cup. You them still have the problem of very samey bowling which is why england struggle on flat pitches

 

[blockerdave]

it' no surprise that the only time we won an ICC tournament - the WT20 - we had: a reasonable left-arm seamer (Sidebottom wasn't world class, but he did a job); a very good spinner (Swann); aggressive top-order batsmen (Lumb, Kieswetter, KP top 3); and a very good tactical captain (Collingwood).

currently we have only one of those, a good captain, but he is in horrible form.

 

[War]

FICA seeks return to ICC table | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[War]

ICC president rails at World Cup trophy snub | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

HA!

 

[grkrama]

i would rather have some of the past legends like viv or warne or sachin who were actually present there hand it over rather than any of these stooges

 

[abhi_jacko]

Seriously, who made this guy the ICC president ? You would think that the President of an International sports organisation would be a bit more mature than this

 

[Satan666]

Seriously, who made this guy the ICC president ? You would think that the President of an International sports organisation would be a bit more mature than this

The same ones who removed the ICC president's power and handed it iver to the dirty trio of rotating chairmen.