One day international cricket 50 over format

[NZTailender]

Thing is, growing up, I loved the tri-series in Australia, even if the touring teams would rarely be a draw for spectators and thus a financial 'burden'. I dunno, just made things more interesting. The best series were always with Aus, SA and NZ.

I'd like to see maybe biennial regional cups (with minnows/associates) - Southern Hemisphere Cup, Asia Cup, European & America's cup.

I guess it comes down to average viewer. Even if just between two teams I'm probably going to find series where NZ play stronger teams worthy of watching.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Thing is, growing up, I loved the tri-series in Australia, even if the touring teams would rarely be a draw for spectators and thus a financial 'burden'. I dunno, just made things more interesting. The best series were always with Aus, SA and NZ.

I'd like to see maybe biennial regional cups (with minnows/associates) - Southern Hemisphere Cup, Asia Cup, European & America's cup.

I guess it comes down to average viewer. Even if just between two teams I'm probably going to find series where NZ play stronger teams worthy of watching.

can't imagine that the European or America's cup would be particularly competitive

 

[Fuller Pilch]

can't imagine that the America's cup would be particularly competitive

Just tell the multibillionaires that it is a yacht race

 

[NZTailender]

can't imagine that the European or America's cup would be particularly competitive

That's why it'd be Europe and Americas: England, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, West Indies
Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Southern Hemisphere: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya/Namibia (they could take it in turns/whoever is ranked higher at the time)

Europe & Americas would be weakest but who cares about those countries anyway

 

[TheJediBrah]

That's why it'd be Europe and Americas: England, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, West Indies
Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Southern Hemisphere: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya/Namibia (they could take it in turns/whoever is ranked higher at the time)

Europe & Americas would be weakest but who cares about those countries anyway

good in theory, but in the end you'd get pretty predicable winners most of the time and a lot of "minnow v big team" games

 

[Shady Slim]

good in theory, but in the end you'd get pretty predicable winners most of the time and a lot of "minnow v big team" games

i'd argue that kenya vs australia is better than the eleventh india vs australia in under a year

 

[NZTailender]

good in theory, but in the end you'd get pretty predicable winners most of the time and a lot of "minnow v big team" games

I think it'd help develop minnow teams better than them constantly playing each other followed by sometimes playing in the World Cup (not that it will happen next time), or their 1-2 fixtures when a team tours their neighbour.

 

[marc71178]

i'd argue that kenya vs australia is better than the eleventh india vs australia in under a year

Based on what exactly? Wouldn't be closeness of game even if Australia are kicking India's asses.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

you might get teams playing 4 pure, genuine class bowlers who are numpties with the bat...You might see higher quality batting.

Does not compute

 

[honestbharani]

I think allowing bowlers additional overs based on the number of wickets they get will create the best situation. It would make both sides think deeply about how they want to tackle their best bowlers and batsmen. And might encourage more positive and attacking bowling mindset.

 

[Lokomotiv]

How about this change?

In the case of A v B

1. A batting 1~25 overs
2. B batting 1~50 overs
3. A batting 26~50 overs

 

[Furball]

good in theory, but in the end you'd get pretty predicable winners most of the time and a lot of "minnow v big team" games

I'd quite like England to have a summer quadrangular tournament rather than 2 bilateral series.

England
Touring side A
Touring side B
Ireland/Scotland/Netherlands (rotating each year).

Each team plays each other twice during the group phase, top 2 qualify for the final.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I'd quite like England to have a summer quadrangular tournament rather than 2 bilateral series.

England
Touring side A
Touring side B
Ireland/Scotland/Netherlands (rotating each year).

Each team plays each other twice during the group phase, top 2 qualify for the final.

Genuinely good idea IMO

 

[NZTailender]

Does not compute

Probably because you missed out on that part inbetween

4 pure, genuine class bowlers who are numpties with the bat rather than 2 and 2 bowling all-rounders and 1-2 batting all-rounder. You might see higher quality bowling and batting.

You end up playing more specialist batsmen and more specialist bowlers.

 

[NZTailender]

I'd quite like England to have a summer quadrangular tournament rather than 2 bilateral series.

England
Touring side A
Touring side B
Ireland/Scotland/Netherlands (rotating each year).

Each team plays each other twice during the group phase, top 2 qualify for the final.

This would be a better model than the one I suggested. You could do it for each region.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I guess one big issue with that though is the financial viability. Which is probably the issue prohibiting issue with all these ideas.

Both Aus and Eng stopped the yearly Tri-Series due to lack of interest in the neutral games and this would probably be an even bigger issue when throwing in a 4th minnow nation.

 

[Athlai]

This would be a better model than the one I suggested. You could do it for each region.

Who would the ANZ minnow be?

 

[Prince EWS]

who would the anz minnow be?

Papua New Guinea.

 

[morgieb]

The format itself is fine. What worries me is that there's too many irrelevant series that are hard to care about. I'd want to see some triangular series (where I feel there's more meaning than your average bilateral series), probably less ODI's in general, and also if possible ODI's to come before the Tests (I feel this way it's a good way to whet your appetite for international cricket, whereas Tests before the ODI's kinda makes you feel a bit jaded towards cricket.

 

[NZTailender]

Who would the ANZ minnow be?

Yeah PNG or we could pinch Afghanistan. I like the cut of their jib.