Melbourne [Australia], August 14 (ANI): The Cricket Australia (CA) chief Todd Greenberg warned that the present mannequin of Take a look at cricket may depart some boards going through chapter and in addition added that he doesn’t suppose everybody in world cricket must aspire to play the longest format of the sport, reported Wisden.
With the West Indies and Zimbabwe going through huge and embarrassing losses to Australia and New Zealand respectively and the quantity of combat India and England alike confirmed throughout a 2-2 drawn Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, the talk about having a two-tier ICC World Take a look at Championship (WTC) system has simply picked up once more.
The CA administrator has urged ICC to have a extra slimmed down mannequin in direction of Assessments to protect its high quality and shield its existence. The ICC had just lately launched a working group to debate the preservation of the format’s future and whether or not a two-tier Take a look at system is feasible.
‘Shortage in Take a look at cricket is our pal, not out foe,’ mentioned Greenberg as quoted by Wisden.
‘I don’t suppose everybody in world cricket must aspire to play Take a look at cricket, and that could be okay. We are actually attempting to ship nations bankrupt if we pressure them to attempt to play Take a look at cricket,’ he added.
As per Greenberg imaginative and prescient, a better funding would go to collection involving the ‘large three nations’, India, England and Australia, with the Anderson Tendulkar Trophy just lately garnering loads of popularity of the standard of cricket performed and producing important viewership.
‘We’d like to ensure we put money into the best areas to play Take a look at cricket the place it means one thing has jeopardy. That’s the reason the Ashes might be as monumental and worthwhile as it’s, as a result of it means one thing,’ he added.
The collection between Australia and WI in June-July ended with Aussies whitewashing Windies at their very own residence and skittling them out for 27 within the third Take a look at, the second-lowest Take a look at rating ever.
Within the NZ-Zim Take a look at collection, NZ secured an enormous win within the first Take a look at, by an innings and 359 runs, after scoring 601/3 of their first innings with 150-plus scores from Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls.
A two-tier system has been floated round as an answer to deal with the large gulf in performances of the ‘large three’ groups and others. The ICC working group was established to look into the matter within the Annual Normal Assembly final month which befell underneath management of ICC Chairman Jay Shah, chief government Sanjog Gupta. Greenberg, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief government Richard Gould are also part of the group, which Gupta chairs. (ANI)
