Why? It never used to be so. There's no reason at all why you can't play 120 overs' of cricket in a day. Any finish later than 10:30PM would be too late. But it doesn't matter when you start.
Your definition of "straight" is rather different to that at international level.
Actually, now I think about it, it's not - the most recent Champions Trophy, for only the 2nd time ever (2000 being the other, though obviously it was the Knockout Trophy then), was actually a Global event with some meaning - all it needed was a sane format and being played at a time of year when it wasn't raining.
That's the better option IMO. It's ridiculous having had a CT only a few months ago, and the WC next month.
Well that's happening like it or not so you may as well appropriate your schedules.
Huh? We're obviously talking hypothetically so I don't see why I should. Surely it's just as valid to say "never" as it is to say "every four years", or whatever.
Once again I'll point out that we were discussing what we would like to see happen, so it doesn't matter what the ICC have said is happening.
I absolutely agree. Any fool can bowl bouncers. There's a reason why they don't though beyond the rules however, in that the bouncer is a risky delivery in that it provides a batsman with an opportunity to score a boundary. So it becomes a real test of skill and nerve to employ the bouncer in a manner that restricts, rather than promotes, scoring. But surely we want to give bowlers the opportunity to display that skill and nerve.
Priorities! Is it more important to have a decent product, and a proper ball that could last an innings without having to be replaced in every single innings of every match, or to make a couple of teams adopt a different colour shirt?
Well obviously most international cricketers can as well - you see only a few legside or head height wides per innings and VERY few of those are because the player couldn't control where the ball went, except for when its swinging an exceptional amount or Michael Bevan was bowling. Those wides occured because bowlers were actually trying to employ some TACTICS in their art, and fell on the wrong side of the barbed-wire fences guarding the the batsman's paradise of ODIs, clearly unwelcome when they should be aiming to bowl straight and predictably at a hittable pace so people can hit score at 8 an over without sweating... <rant>