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Intercontinental Cup 2011-2013

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
How on Earth does the ICC expect anyone to take an interest in this tournament if it takes two years for 8 teams to get through 1 round of matches. These yawning gaps are killing the Intercontinental Cup
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
I've just noticed yesterday was Kenya's 1st ODI win over Canada since at least 2009. Anyway, if we wrap up the second game as convinceingly as the eggs we set up a 3 shoot out with Afghanistan and Scotland for that 2nd World Cup slot with just to two of them to play.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
How on Earth does the ICC expect anyone to take an interest in this tournament if it takes two years for 8 teams to get through 1 round of matches. These yawning gaps are killing the Intercontinental Cup
How on Earth do you expect teams to pick first choice teams consistently in an amateur sport if they have more games to play?
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
I'm not talking about more games. Just eradication of these huge yawning gaps between games. In any case how are associates going to generate the kind of interest in their games, to generate enough revenue to professionalize, if keeping track of these tournaments is such a chore.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
The thing is if they pull the games closer together, as you want, the players won't be able to play them all because of other commitments.
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
The thing is if they pull the games closer together, as you want, the players won't be able to play them all because of other commitments.
From a tough love perspective that need for players available to the national team year round would force associates to develop professionalism into their systems which would be better for the game in the long run for cricket as a whole. This we are just amateurs thing is a bit of a crutch that is inhibiting real maturation of associate cricket.
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
How would they develop professionalism though? Simply unsustainable financially.
Unsustainable if they continue on the current status quo so to speak. A more 'televisable' Associate schedule could provide the extra revenue.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
But how does it become televisable? Who are you expecting to watch it realistically and how much will any company pay to show it? It'd only be peanuts.
 

andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
Domestic audiences for start. Curious india fans. Kenya's East Africa Premier League and Cup for example are getting quite a bit of interest from Supersport, so they might cover Kenya games and I want to believe Cricket Ireland can get Setanta to front something for its own games. It obviously won't be the billions that the BCCI commands but it would be an important starting point.
 

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A 15-year old spinner called Daniel Doram has just taken 5 wickets on debut against Ireland.

John Anderson was a South African who played one game for Natal about 10 years ago, since then he appears to have turned up from nowhere and hit a ton for Ireland. To be honest I'm more interested in the other opener, a 22-year old called Balbirnie, entirely because of his stereotypical name
That's an interesting story, wonder how well he bowled, or whether it was a bit of slogging. Got Kevin O'Brien again the second innings too.
 

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