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    ICC centenary celebrations

    By Will last year, at the end of October, Comments

    So, in 2009, the ICC will commemorate its centenary and the big cheeses are going to meet up to discuss how to celebrate this momentus occasion. Patrick says:

    Any bright ideas out there for how the ICC should mark the occasion? I’d quite like them to have a month of apathy, when they do no administrating and we can see whether the game will survive. Or how about a month-long World Test Championship, when the leading eight Test nations, divided into two pools with a final for the teams that come top, compete in the only proper form of cricket?

    Nah. They’ll probably just have another 50-over tournament to fill the gap between the 2008 Champions Trophy and the 2011 World Cup.

    Any ideas? Now that they live in Dubai - where, among the desert camels, you can find an indoor ski centre - why don’t they create a vineyard? ICC Chardonnay, 2009 in honour of, well, you know who…

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