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WindieWeathers · 19-12-2012, 07:31 AM

Just looking at the four day competitions of the leading teams like SA, England, India and Aus and the pattern is quite clear, they all seem to have the best structures in place, i don't know a great deal about how SL and Pakistans work but i know ours is dominated by a team (Jamaica) who have only got two players in our test team and is made up of mostly regional bullies, our competition mainly relies on individual brilliance rather than great team performances, and thus when those individuals fail to fire a game can be over in two and a half days,

NZ only has six teams involved in theirs and just looking at a few of the current games there seems to be a lot of old ex NZ players doing all the damage rather than youngsters, but perhaps that was just a one off game i looked at,

The question is though can a team really reach number one in the rankings if it's domestic system is weak?

19-12-2012, 07:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
WindieWeathers International Debutant Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Brazil Posts: 2,151	Do domestic structures define the test rankings? Just looking at the four day competitions of the leading teams like SA, England, India and Aus and the pattern is quite clear, they all seem to have the best structures in place, i don't know a great deal about how SL and Pakistans work but i know ours is dominated by a team (Jamaica) who have only got two players in our test team and is made up of mostly regional bullies, our competition mainly relies on individual brilliance rather than great team performances, and thus when those individuals fail to fire a game can be over in two and a half days, NZ only has six teams involved in theirs and just looking at a few of the current games there seems to be a lot of old ex NZ players doing all the damage rather than youngsters, but perhaps that was just a one off game i looked at, The question is though can a team really reach number one in the rankings if it's domestic system is weak?