Natman20
International Debutant
I have been thinking and I have looked at the way some other sports hold competitions and I think a calender year should include:
- T20 Club Championships
from England (including scottish, irish), India (including Pakistanis, Sri Lanka, bangladesh), Australasia (including NZ, SA), West Indies. The best teams from each should compete together. Sort of like a club v club. This already seems to be going through but IMO this should be in the calendar.
- A T20 cup should still be held every 2 years.
- Rather than having test and ODI series together teams compete in triangular ODI series around the world to make the results more interesting rather than just having one v one. This way everyone gets to take on more teams and diversity in teams will only help IMO. It should theoretically give more time for tests and T20 tournaments.
- A champions trophy should be held every year apart from the world cup year
- From the rankings of the previous year teams ranked no.1 and 2 should go head to head in a 3 match ODI series. (instead of chappell/hadlee)
- Ashes and tests remain as is with a required minimum of at least 6 tests per year for any team (I'm a kiwi! )
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So I am suggesting in a year:
T20 Tournaments - WI, AUS, ENG, IND
T20 Club Championship
(Other domestic competitions the same without T20 - exeptions to NZ and others in similar situations that may not have a great number of players in any of the tournaments)
ODI Triangular series' with appropriate rotation of teams and locations
ODI Champions Trophy big team knockout competition
ODI Teams ranked 1 and 2 play a minimum of 3 matches against each other in a series.
TESTS minimum of 6 tests per year with series being minimum of 3.
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T20 world champs every second year
ODI world cup every 4 years
Yep sounds dumb but maybe this may spark some ideas that are better! much better!
- T20 Club Championships
from England (including scottish, irish), India (including Pakistanis, Sri Lanka, bangladesh), Australasia (including NZ, SA), West Indies. The best teams from each should compete together. Sort of like a club v club. This already seems to be going through but IMO this should be in the calendar.
- A T20 cup should still be held every 2 years.
- Rather than having test and ODI series together teams compete in triangular ODI series around the world to make the results more interesting rather than just having one v one. This way everyone gets to take on more teams and diversity in teams will only help IMO. It should theoretically give more time for tests and T20 tournaments.
- A champions trophy should be held every year apart from the world cup year
- From the rankings of the previous year teams ranked no.1 and 2 should go head to head in a 3 match ODI series. (instead of chappell/hadlee)
- Ashes and tests remain as is with a required minimum of at least 6 tests per year for any team (I'm a kiwi! )
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So I am suggesting in a year:
T20 Tournaments - WI, AUS, ENG, IND
T20 Club Championship
(Other domestic competitions the same without T20 - exeptions to NZ and others in similar situations that may not have a great number of players in any of the tournaments)
ODI Triangular series' with appropriate rotation of teams and locations
ODI Champions Trophy big team knockout competition
ODI Teams ranked 1 and 2 play a minimum of 3 matches against each other in a series.
TESTS minimum of 6 tests per year with series being minimum of 3.
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T20 world champs every second year
ODI world cup every 4 years
Yep sounds dumb but maybe this may spark some ideas that are better! much better!