Icc Should Target 128 Test Nations In 5 Years - Atleast 25 Each Year

[ralph567]

The ICC Should target atleast 128 Test Playing Nations in the next 5 years and add atleast 25 nations each year. The Development program should move at a rapid pace or Crciket might loose out to other Sports.

The ICC 10 year Program and World Cricket League should be scrapped immediately and all teams (top and weaker) should play against each other. The 10 year program and WCL gives the Associates no chance since the Senior Teams have already arranged their schedules and are reluctant to accomodate Associate Teams. This is causing a SENIOR MAFIA where the seniors will never allow other teams to come ahead and improve.

A good example is Kenya's downfall after the 2003 WC. None of the major teams came ahead and supported them. Instead they were not given any matches and they slumped. The ICC is really not interested in Development and should realise that Development has to happen quickly or cricket may loose out to other lucrative sports. This is the reason FIFA has more than 180 full memebers and ICC just 10.

The best way is to make it compulsory for Senior Teams to have one associate in any triangular or quadrangular series. Associates should be given atleast 36 ODI's and 12 Tests against the top teams every year. Any team refusing to encourage Associate Teams should be penalised heavily.

 

[jammay123]

imagine australia playing a year of tests againts assosiate members. it would be murder . would probably kill the game in the countrys where aus win each test in a day. it would make test cricket farcical. only if you have the players , facillitys and support should play test cricket. and i highly doubt we have 15 nations who could blay test cricket let alone 125.

 

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[Athlai]

AWTA

 

[BhupinderSingh]

I think first Bangladesh should be stopped from ruining the stnadard of cricket by being deprived from playing tests & also there is no need of more test playing nations,8 would be enough I think.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

This is also one of the worst threads I've ever seen on any cricket forum.

 

[Athlai]

Bangladesh can't be expected to become test class without playing tests IMO, they are the only team out of the 'minnows' who deserve the right to play against the real test class countries. Ten years from now and you never know who could be the top team in the world.

 

[andruid]

imagine australia playing a year of tests againts assosiate members. it would be murder . would probably kill the game in the countrys where aus win each test in a day. it would make test cricket farcical. only if you have the players , facillitys and support should play test cricket. and i highly doubt we have 15 nations who could play test cricket let alone 125.

Imagine a Kenya vs Ireland 5 match test series. (might not sound very exciting right now but trust me it is)
Imagine Associates like Scotland, Ireland and The Netherlands being able to put their players on central contracts thanks to the extra revenue they would get from Test status
Imagine all the top associates being able to launch and maintain nationwide FC and OD leagues
Imagine a Cricket World Cup where all the teams participating bar the hosts had to earn their place via qualification

Imagine if FIFA started categorising teams into those with 90 minutes football status 45 minutes etc. Would football have become the most popular game in the world?

What is it that would be so hard for two teams to come together and play a cricket match 5 days long that the ICC will only give official recognition to a handful of teams?

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Bangladesh can't be expected to become test class without playing tests IMO, they are the only team out of the 'minnows' who deserve the right to play against the real test class countries. Ten years from now and you never know who could be the top team in the world.

Bangladesh should be given 5 FC matches,one against each of top 5 test playing nations to improve their standard,until then they should stay away from test cricket.And I don't see them becoming a quality test playing nation after 50 years even.

 

[Athlai]

Bangladesh should be given 5 FC matches,one against each of top 5 test playing nations to improve their standard,until then they should stay away from test cricket.And I don't see them becoming a quality test playing nation after 50 years even.

New Zealand, Sri Lanka are among some of the teams who were consistently thrashed by the 'test class' sides, but they developed, and you can see it with Bangladesh today, the talent is growing, a young team, a developing infrastructure, dismissing them now would only be harmful.

 

[Athlai]

Imagine a Kenya vs Ireland 5 match test series. (might not sound very exciting right now but trust me it is)
Imagine Associates like Scotland, Ireland and The Netherlands being able to put their players on central contracts thanks to the extra revenue they would get from Test status
Imagine all the top associates being able to launch and maintain nationwide FC and OD leagues
Imagine a Cricket World Cup where all the teams participating bar the hosts had to earn their place via qualification

Imagine if FIFA started categorising teams into those with 90 minutes football status 45 minutes etc. Would football have become the most popular game in the world?

What is it that would be so hard for two teams to come together and play a cricket match 5 days long that the ICC will only give official recognition to a handful of teams?

You can call a donkey a horse mate but that don't make it a horse.

Giving them test status will not make their games more popular, the revenue would be next to nothing if all of a sudden the test world expanded radically. Other than Kenya, Netherlands, Ireland, Canada and Scotland most sides out of the test world are dire.

 

[andruid]

Well you can't exactly climb a tree from the top all the current Test teams went through a period where they weren't so good at test cricket but they had each other to compete against so they didn't get shown up the way Bangladesh are on the test stage. My suggestion would be the ICC at least generates a 'second generation' of test teams with enough funding at least to support pro squads to give each other a run for their money IT least generate a whole new set of rivalries and more competitive hence more interesting matchups than what we witnessed In Sri Lanka earlier this year and In Australia during the 2006-2007 ashes

 

[andruid]

Well you can't exactly climb a tree from the top. All the current Test teams went through a period where they weren't so good at test cricket but at least they had each other to compete against so they didn't get shown up the way Bangladesh are on the test stage. My suggestion would be the ICC at least generates a 'second generation' of test teams with enough funding at least to support pro squads to give each other a run for their money IT least generate a whole new set of rivalries and more competitive hence more interesting matchups than what we witnessed In Sri Lanka earlier this year and In Australia during the 2006-2007 ashes

 

[Goughy]

New Zealand, Sri Lanka are among some of the teams who were consistently thrashed by the 'test class' sides, but they developed, and you can see it with Bangladesh today, the talent is growing, a young team, a developing infrastructure, dismissing them now would only be harmful.

Whilst NZ and Sri Lanka were undoubtably poor when they entered Test cricket they were not 'consistently thrashed' anywhere close to the same level Bangladesh have been.

So far Bangladesh have played 49 Tests.

Played 49, lost 43. Thats a losing %age of 88%

In NZ first 49 games they lost 26. Thats a losing %age of 53%

In Sri Lanka first 49 games they lost 22. Thats a losing %age of 45%

Also Sri Lanka and NZ didnt have the benefit of playing nearly 20% of their Tests against another weak team like Zimbabwe as Bangladesh have done.

 

[andruid]

Well you can't exactly climb a tree from the top. All the current Test teams went through a period where they weren't so good at test cricket but at least they had each other to compete against so they didn't get shown up the way Bangladesh are on the test stage. My suggestion would be the ICC at least generates a 'second generation' of test teams with enough funding at least to support pro squads to give each other a run for their money IT least generate a whole new set of rivalries and more competitive hence more interesting matchups than what we witnessed In Sri Lanka earlier this year and In Australia during the 2006-2007 ashes

 

[Poker Boy]

But does cricket need more Test nations anyway? Rugby is another sport where probably only eight teams are up to much (Argentina v France notwithstanding) and it doesn't seem to do that sport any harm. There is nothing to stop minnows playing FC matches againat each other (as they do) but calling them Tests would be as big a joke as calling say Canada v Bermuda an ODI (which they do but its still wrong)

 

[andruid]

I just got a brainwave

Maybe the top associates+Bangladesh should threaten defect from the ICC and form their organisation to operate their own Tests, ODIs, their own Future tours program and so forth

 

[pup11]

I think first of all ICC should think about raising the standard of lowly-ranked test nations among the 10 test playing nations, just look at the shape that teams like Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and West Indies are in atm in test cricket.
First ICC should make sure that they have got their 10 test playing nations in good shape before looking to expand on the number of test playing nations.

 

[Goughy]

My suggestion would be the ICC at least generates a 'second generation' of test teams with enough funding at least to support pro squads to give each other a run for their money IT least generate a whole new set of rivalries and more competitive hence more interesting matchups than what we witnessed In Sri Lanka earlier this year and In Australia during the 2006-2007 ashes

A proffesional 2nd tier is really important for the stature and health of the game.

There cant just be Test cricket and then a drop off to zero cricket utside the Test nations.

The key for all smaller nations and the ICC (as you said) is to find the money through whatever means possible to support a full pro squad and then make games and tournaments available.

20/20 and ODIs would be the arena in which they play. Test cricket is out of the question, unless something like a European Union team played (which I guess isnt out of the question given that the EU is one political unit and far tighter and cohesive than the WI)

 

[Richard]

Whilst NZ and Sri Lanka were undoubtably poor when they entered Test cricket they were not 'consistently thrashed' anywhere close to the same level Bangladesh have been.

So far Bangladesh have played 49 Tests.

Played 49, lost 43. Thats a losing %age of 88%

In NZ first 49 games they lost 26. Thats a losing %age of 53%

In Sri Lanka first 49 games they lost 22. Thats a losing %age of 45%

Also Sri Lanka and NZ didnt have the benefit of playing nearly 20% of their Tests against another weak team like Zimbabwe as Bangladesh have done.

Absolutely. Many people fail to realise the fact that a team dragging down the standard like Bangladesh do has never happened before.