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    World Cup to be overhauled

    By Will last year, at the start of December Leave a comment on this post

    From Cricinfo:

    Cricket Australia have already said they would welcome a shorter version, following this year’s inflated 47-day tournament which turned many off, and they’re not the only board thinking that way.

    A CA spokesman, Peter Young, told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on Thursday: “We support a shorter tournament. Most nations do now.”

    Encouraging, if overdue - and frankly, the best solution would be to cast it into oblivion for good; introduce a Test-match Championship spread over two years, with a Twenty20 Championship in place of the World Cup.

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    5 Responses to “World Cup to be overhauled”

  • David Hinchliffe - Cricket Fitness, Coaching and Tips wrote:
    December 8th, 2007 at 11.31 am

    I agree but the sub continent still makes huge amounts of money through ODI cricket. It’s a cash cow and would be poor business sense to abandon it at this point.

  • Will wrote:
    December 8th, 2007 at 3.31 pm

    Indeed so, and that raises the wider issue of where cricket’s responsibilities lie. With the fans or the suits? Is it now more a business than a game? Yes…

    Incidentally David, thanks (I think!) for the plug on your blog. Most generous…!

  • David Hinchliffe - Cricket Fitness, Coaching and Tips wrote:
    December 9th, 2007 at 8.58 am

    It’s always a pleasure to plug a good blog Will!

  • Michael Bigg wrote:
    December 12th, 2007 at 12.27 pm

    Can we have a shorter World Cup but keep Bermuda? Those guys are legends, espicially Dwayne “Sluggo” Leverock and captain Irving “Roly-poly” Romaine!

  • Rich Burley wrote:
    December 18th, 2007 at 11.23 am

    A 2 year test championship - would that be like the Intercontinental Cup only for Test teams, i.e. with everyone playing each other once?

    Sounds good in principle as long as we can keep the Ashes.

    btw, about the World Cup format, the hosts seem to have decided they’d like it to go back to 2 groups of 7, apparently so that India and Pakistan can’t go out to freak results again. Cash cow indeed.

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