Chamipons Trophy at stake for top 7

[Sunil1z]

15 months till CT

Jan 2025 ?
Are they really having 3 ICC tournaments in 15 months ?
ODI WC, WT20 and CT .
Talk about killing the interest in the game

 

[ma1978]

I say the more globally competitive ODI cricket the better

 

[Ashes81]

Would Sky want to televise the CT if England weren't involved?

There certainly wouldn't be as much interest in it. I'm a bit cynical and I think one way or another England will be in there. ICC didn't plan for the fact a major nation would be worse than minor one.

They would televise it but the money they pay would be significantly reduced.

But the CT needs binning off - have an ODI WC and a T20 WC every 2 years

 

[Owzat]

They would televise it but the money they pay would be significantly reduced.

But the CT needs binning off - have an ODI WC and a T20 WC every 2 years

"Champions" Trophy, champions of what?!?!?

Besides having read the wiki entry on the Champions Trophy 2025 it says Pakistan are hosts and not that the top 7 will qualify, with no indication of any other route to qualify which seems very closed door "elitist", just that the top 7 positions which would have to exclude Pakistan given they can't play in it twice.


hamfisted by the media, one team is decided, hosts Pakistan, so they take it as read as top 7 when as I read it then it's the top 7 sides excluding Pakistan who could finish 8th but I find it unlikely

whether England can steal into a top 8 place is another matter, I'd also find it hard to believe they'd set up such qualifying if they thought one of the bigger guns wouldn't finish in the top 8 ie don't really want Sri Lanka or more likely Holland or Afghanistan in place of England or any team who have a good standing in cricket even if not evident from this tournament - a rehash of 1996 when England didn't beat any top sides

 

[Ashes81]

The whole point of the CT was to provide a tournament and more importantly cash, between World Cups.

With the birth of T20 as a format, that is no longer needed.

Now the CT is 100% about cash so having no England there wouldn't help the tournament at all.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

England 2025 will be different from England 2023

Yeah will be a lot worse without Butler, Stokes, and Root.

 

[GIMH]

The whole point of the CT was to provide a tournament and more importantly cash, between World Cups.

With the birth of T20 as a format, that is no longer needed.

Now the CT is 100% about cash so having no England there wouldn't help the tournament at all.

I sort of agree, but think mini-tournaments is the best way to safeguard the format as opposed to bilaterals that just feel like friendlies these days.

 

[Ashes81]

I sort of agree, but think mini-tournaments is the best way to safeguard the format as opposed to bilaterals that just feel like friendlies these days.

It's a fair point you make but if we have a CT, a T20 WC and a ODI WC, then that's a world event 3 out of every 4 years, which seems 1 too many to me.

Also, if we're not there, what's the point of the tournament anyway.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Have the Netherlands even got any ODIs scheduled in the next couple of years? I'm not sure if they have. Nonetheless, I really hope they qualify.

Would love to see an Euro ODI Cup with England, Ireland, Scotland, and the Dutch.

 

[GIMH]

It's a fair point you make but if we have a CT, a T20 WC and a ODI WC, then that's a world event 3 out of every 4 years, which seems 1 too many to me.

Also, if we're not there, what's the point of the tournament anyway.

I’d be happy with a global event every year haha. But I know what you mean.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Have the Netherlands even got any ODIs scheduled in the next couple of years? I'm not sure if they have. Nonetheless, I really hope they qualify.

Would love to see an Euro ODI Cup with England, Ireland, Scotland, and the Dutch.

This English team would somehow find a way to lose that.

 

[Prince EWS]

Why ICC got to do everything at middle of the tournament?

Apparently they did it in 2021.

 

[centurymaker]

It's a fair point you make but if we have a CT, a T20 WC and a ODI WC, then that's a world event 3 out of every 4 years, which seems 1 too many to me.

Also, if we're not there, what's the point of the tournament anyway.

There is a world event every year actually. In a four year cycle there are -
2 T20 World Cups
1 Odi World Cup
1 Champions Trophy

(1 event per year)

2022 T20 WC
2023 ODI WC
2024 T20 WC
2025 CT
2026 T20 WC
2027 ODI WC
2028 T20 WC
2029 CT

 

[Athlai]

Bring back the champions league

 

[Andy19]

Hopefully England win their last two matches and maybe get in the champions Trophy .

 

[Sunil1z]

Afghanistan has qualified for Champions Trophy .

 

[Burgey]

Gotta say if you’re worrying about qualifying for a second tier tournament while playing in the format’s premier event, you’ve got it all are about. The CT has never mattered, and matters less now than ever

 

[honestbharani]

Gotta say if you’re worrying about qualifying for a second tier tournament while playing in the format’s premier event, you’ve got it all are about. The CT has never mattered, and matters less now than ever

TBF it does matter a lot, monetarily, to the boards who need the cash like Windies, SL, Afg etc.

 

[Burgey]

Let them play in it then. England shouldn't give a tinker's bout it tbh

 

[honestbharani]

Let them play in it then. England shouldn't give a tinker's bout it tbh

Fair enough but no one says no to free dough.