The same point about competitiveness holds in rugby, probably even more so. It's hard to see any of the minnows sprining a suprrise and winning against an established nation at the world cup. Georgia came close in the last one vs Ireland but that aside the games go to form. To that extent I...
this is good at face value but have the ICC really done a lot for the associates here?
on the plus side:
Associates get to compete in 2015. Definitely a massive plus but 4 is probably too many unless some of the sides make some great strides in next 2 years. Afghanistan could well be dark...
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/511767.html
and
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/511789.html
Good work from the associates in bringing pressure to bear on this disgraceful decision. But the hard work only starts now.
Warren Deutrom, the CEO of...
Eh what? Clearly you either didn't read or couldn't understand my post. I never had a go at the 50 over format. How about you get your eyesight checked or learn to read properly....
The problem with the world cup was the number of days it took to play, not the lenght of the games. I clearly...
Agreed. Not helped by playing one game a day on most days. at least a week could have been shave with decent scheduling \
Well said. I think that there should be a qualifying tournament too. Some of the test sides got resoundingly thrashed in their games and some of the associate sides...
So the ICC once again prove that anything FIFA can do they can do better when it comes to corrupt and dodgy practices.
2015 world cup reduced to test playing sides only? What a joke. Zimbabwe should not even BE a test playing side at the moment and have not played a test in how long now...
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