If I controlled the icc I would...

[cover drive man]

Work on developing non playing nations.

Any other ideas.

 

[silentstriker]

1. Add more technology to cricket (appeal system)
2. Ban sledging
3. Make all Test series a minimum of four Tests
4. Mandatory two or three warm up games (3 days each) before the first Test
5. Get rid of the coin toss (visiting team always chooses what to do)
6. Get rid of the front-foot no ball, or use technology for it

 

[cover drive man]

1. Add more technology to cricket (appeal system)
2. Ban sledging
3. Make all Test series a minimum of four Tests
4. Mandatory two or three warm up games (3 days each) before the first Test
5. Get rid of the coin toss (visiting team always chooses what to do)
6. Get rid of the front-foot no ball, or use technology for it

Hmm thats a touchy one pretty much every team does a bit of sledging and banning it could just cause more trouble. You could argue it's a part of the game.

 

[Days of Grace]

If I controlled the ICC I would....

...say "the hell with this ****," and throw my lot in with the BCCI.

 

[Days of Grace]

Hmm thats a touchy one pretty much every team does a bit of sledging and banning it could just cause more trouble. You could argue it's a part of the game.

First, you would have to define what sledging is, and that is next to impossible.

 

[cover drive man]

First, you would have to define what sledging is, and that is next to impossible.

It's putting players on other teams off usually with insults isn't it?

 

[silentstriker]

Hmm thats a touchy one pretty much every team does a bit of sledging and banning it could just cause more trouble. You could argue it's a part of the game.

Just because something is a part of the game, doesn't mean it should be.

First, you would have to define what sledging is, and that is next to impossible.

Insults. The umpire would be the judge of that, or the match referee after reviewing stump mics.

Anyway, if you want to debate this, we should move it to the other thread.

 

[Chubb]

Scrap the ICC Champions Trophy

Allow England and any other nations to boycott Zimbabwe on moral grounds without sanctions

Refuse to recognise the current Zimbabwe Cricket board

Limit ODI series to 5 at the maximum

Hold the 2020 World Cup every four years in the interval between World Cups, in a developing nation if possible.

Teams would only be allowed to play 3 test series against major nations (plus one against Bang or Zim) and 3 ODI series each year, because too much international cricket is being played and this is turning off new fans, because so much of it is meaningless.

Equal rest time for teams (it is not fair that the Aussies got 9 months off last year and England and India get 1 month at a time if they are lucky)

Issue a press statement stating that the health of cricket and not money is the objective of the ICC

 

[Richard]

Scrap the ICC Champions Trophy

Disagree with that, think we might finally have hit upon a decent Champions Trophy with the last one and with any look we might see it go from strength to strength from now on.

 

[Chubb]

Disagree with that, think we might finally have hit upon a decent Champions Trophy with the last one and with any look we might see it go from strength to strength from now on.

Yes but the main thrust of my administration would be a reduction in the amount of cricket being played and I feel that it serves no real purpose. Perhaps the World Cup should adopt the format of the Champions Trophy? thus there would be a reduction in the amount of tournaments and also games in the major tournament, which we all agree surely was far too long.

What I want is less, more meaningful cricket.I personally am tired of pointless ODI matches and series which only exist to maximise the amount of money gained.

 

[Goughy]

Yes but the main thrust of my administration would be a reduction in the amount of cricket being played and I feel that it serves no real purpose. Perhaps the World Cup should adopt the format of the Champions Trophy? thus there would be a reduction in the amount of tournaments and also games in the major tournament, which we all agree surely was far too long.

What I want is less, more meaningful cricket.I personally am tired of pointless ODI matches and series which only exist to maximise the amount of money gained.

I have no sympathy with the amount of cricket that is played, but I agree there is far too much meaningless rubbish going on.

OD cricket is going to have to find its role in the new International framework as meaningless 7 games series are looking very tired.

 

[andruid]

1.Make it illegal for any country to qualify for any tournament in one format based on their status or achievement in any other format of the game. eg qualification for One day tournaments based on achievement in Multi-day cricket and vice versa
2.Replace the current Executive comitee (the one all the test nation have permanent seats on with an body of 15 elected officials from each of the continental cricket associations.
3. Make it a requirement that all ICC events no matter who is competing get coverage on mainstream media.
4.Scrap the Champions trophy cos it violates my first rule change
5. Recognise the right of all ICC members, Associates and Affiliates to organise play officially sanctioned 5 day Tests.
6. Expand the Current Test championship to include all nations reasonably capable of holding 5 day matches (qualification through achievement in FC cricket off course)

 

[cover drive man]

Scrap the ICC Champions Trophy

Yeah it's just a cheap version of the world cup.

 

[andruid]

1.Make it illegal for any country to qualify for any tournament in one format based on their status or achievement in any other format of the game. eg qualification for One day tournaments based on achievement in Multi-day cricket and vice versa
2.Replace the current Executive comitee (the one all the test nation have permanent seats on with an body of 15 elected officials from each of the continental cricket associations.
3. Make it a requirement that all ICC events no matter who is competing get coverage on mainstream media.
4.Scrap the Champions trophy cos it violates my first rule change
5. Recognise the right of all ICC members, Associates and Affiliates to organise play officially sanctioned 5 day Tests.
6. Expand the Current Test championship to include all nations reasonably capable of holding 5 day matches (qualification through achievement in FC cricket off course)

Basically I would ttry to kill Test status in order to save test cricket...

 

[Richard]

Make it a requirement that all ICC events no matter who is competing get coverage on mainstream media.

I$C$C will never have the power to do that. You'd need to organise a coup at every newspaper that covers cricket if you wanted that.

 

[Goughy]

Basically I would ttry to kill Test status in order to save test cricket...

Why would you dive in to save a man that isn't drowning?

 

[Richard]

Yes but the main thrust of my administration would be a reduction in the amount of cricket being played and I feel that it serves no real purpose. Perhaps the World Cup should adopt the format of the Champions Trophy? thus there would be a reduction in the amount of tournaments and also games in the major tournament, which we all agree surely was far too long.

What I want is less, more meaningful cricket.I personally am tired of pointless ODI matches and series which only exist to maximise the amount of money gained.

The Champions Trophy has the potential to be a very-much-not-meaningless ODI tournament. In fact, it has the potential to make ODI cricket more meaningful than ever, if I$C$C insist on not making the World Cup a biennial event.

I incidentally don't agree that the World Cup was too long, they said it in 2003 and 2007 and I feel the problem was the quality, not the quantity. If the games had been better, no-one would have said it was too long. There's been $%&@loads of rubbish tournaments that have been short too - witness the Champions Trophies of 2002\03 and 2004, for instance.

 

[jeevan]

Create two parallel systems of cricket - test and limited overs - with good bridges betweenn them (for the players to move back & forth) with separate teams for the major countries and minnows restricted to the latter circle only.

This could create a short term problem for NZ and WI, in terms of the pool of cricketers - perhaps. But Australia, India, Pakistan, England, South Africa, SL will have no problem raising two competitive squads.

Then tests can be run per FTP and on a standard 4 or 5 tests/series format.
Limited overs can take on whatever circus like forms work best in pulling in the crowds.
Players can move on a per-season basis from one to the other and back, with incentives for the best players to show up for a once-in-4-years limited overs world cup (50 overs or 20 over, latter bettter).

Enough money to fund all of this today (as opposed to 10 years ago) and the very best cricketers are a proud enough bunch to want to make a mark in both formats.

This is kind of in motion any way , with IPL becoming the second ring. If I was the ICC, I would try to excercise more control on this evolution - international premier league.

 

[Manee]

Why would you dive in to save a man that isn't drowning?

Because he had a heart attack whilst swimming.

If I were a member of the ICC, I would ensure total control over the dealings of national boards which have international consequences. For example, I would ensure that the IPL was under the almost monarch-esque (high power, no responsibility) structure where boundaries could be enforced such as no conflict with the FTP and limits of pay and wages to be below those of international cricket. I would also ensure on subservience to national boards. For example, the BCCI can partially control the ICC's 'hand' by threatening a pull out of Australia. However, if the ICC could ensure that the BCCI was a subsidiary of the ICC, it could perhaps have more power on national boards. As an extention of this idea, I would have ICC officials working in all major national boards.

More later...

 

[silentstriker]

Because he had a heart attack whilst swimming.

If I were a member of the ICC, I would ensure total control over the dealings of national boards which have international consequences. For example, I would ensure that the IPL was under the almost monarch-esque (high power, no responsibility) structure where boundaries could be enforced such as no conflict with the FTP and limits of pay and wages to be below those of international cricket. I would also ensure on subservience to national boards. For example, the BCCI can partially control the ICC's 'hand' by threatening a pull out of Australia. However, if the ICC could ensure that the BCCI was a subsidiary of the ICC, it could perhaps have more power on national boards. As an extention of this idea, I would have ICC officials working in all major national boards.

More later...

Why would the boards (who comprise the ICC) agree to this though?