laksh_01
State Vice-Captain
Ur Rite... All the best to all the nations playing out there... All fine as long as its not one sided...Who knows, Next year ought to see some really tense matches as Kenya go on their European tour
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Next Test Nation???
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laksh_01
State Vice-Captain
Lets Hope That ICC does something about it... But If therez gonna be a test team only after 20Yrs then am sure its gonna be China....
Perm
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Why should the ICC do something about it? I'm all for developing the game globally, but handing out Test status to nations that don't deserve it is hardly the right way to go about it.
(kidding)
Athlai
Not Terrible
Believe he meant developing infrastructure to establish teams that do deserve it, as opposed to just handing it out to any Tom, Dick or Nepal.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
You can't make Test-class teams. Certainly, I$C$C can't.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Still none of them have got a cat in hells chance of Test status.
morgieb
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Do they have summer?
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
Well there are 8 of them milling about, that disproves that statement.
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
That's up to how well their administration can sort themselves out. I am sure their team is strong enough to breeze through without much trouble
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Shouldn't be, of course.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Every single one of the 9 teams which have at some point been Test-standard (Zimbabwe were even if they're not any more) have become so by nature taking its course, not by the issue being forced.I$C$C trying to manufacture Test-standard teams cannot and never will work.
Not sure why I didn't reply to this in this thread's earlier incarnation BTW.
andruid
Cricketer Of The Year
The nature of cricket has shifted radically from the days when the likes of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe were finding their feet and today. The gulf in financial muscle between the then established teams and the newbies then was not as big nor and something must be done (even if its not by the ICC) to give the next set of teams a proper kickstart.
I$C$C trying to manufacture Test-standard teams cannot and never will work.
Not sure why I didn't reply to this in this thread's earlier incarnation BTW.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Of course, things have changed dramatically even in less than a couple of decades (far more, safe to say, than they changed in the previous 60 or 70 years). Of course, there is now more to teams becoming Test-class than there was in that of Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and their predecessors. Though remember, of course, that Zimbabwe was for many years in cricketing terms part of South Africa. Likewise, Pakistan was simply a new political entity carved out of India.
But the thing that has not changed is that you cannot force cricket on those who do not wish to take it. Even the most enthusiastic, Kenya, Holland, Canada and (I say hesitently) USA currently have nowhere near the following to be challenging the big boys.
And I$C$C are doing far too much of this forcing for my liking, wasting money badly in doing so.
But the thing that has not changed is that you cannot force cricket on those who do not wish to take it. Even the most enthusiastic, Kenya, Holland, Canada and (I say hesitently) USA currently have nowhere near the following to be challenging the big boys.
And I$C$C are doing far too much of this forcing for my liking, wasting money badly in doing so.