The sport is not dying, it may be dying in a few countries but the sport will not die anytime soon in England, India and Australia. I don't get the obsession with making cricket a more global sport, let's face the reality cricket will never become a truly global sport like soccer and it doesn't need to be a global sport to be successful. Basketball and Baseball attract huge sponsors even though it is mainly limited to America, Cricket can also survive on a similar model in countries with huge population like India.
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BlackShadow
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Didn't happen for over a century, but it will happen now? What has changed?
Has everything to do with the format, and not the number of teams playing international Cricket.
The 2015 world cup was a borefest because of so many one sided matches and dead rubbers, I am glad this world cup on has 10 teams. The people who are calling for more teams should refresh their memories and rewatch the previous world cup, the world cup doesn't need more teams, it needs quality teams. I can bet my house on the fact that the next world cup is going to be one of the best world cups ever. If the next world cup too turns out to be a borefest then maybe you guys can come back and petition for more teams but first let at least 1 world cup happen without minnows
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If people are fine watching Gayle and Rohit celebrate triple hundreds against school level attacks, then I really don't believe that you should be calling yourself Cricket fans. ICC's number one priority should be to not make a mockery of the World Cup 2019, and that's what they have done.
I am all for associates getting more cricket but the World Cup is definitely not the platform for it. Already with the proliferation of T20 cricket, ODIs have lost a lot of ground to the shorter version and a lot of fans prefer T20s to ODIs. A 16 or 14 team world cup with 6 or 8 minnows will only lead to further diminution in the value of ODI cricket as more than half the matches will end up being pointless and will be bad for a format that is already struggling to compete with T20s. Associates should instead be given exposure through bilateral series and T20 WCs (where they have a greater chance of competing with established teams).
A 12 team WC means at least 5 weak teams (not counting Windies). A two group format will mean there will be 3 and 2 weak teams in each group which will mean that 21 out of 30 group games (70%) will involve a weak team! I do not even want to think about a 14 or 16 team tournament. Unless we want ODIs to die as a format, the 10 team WC is the only viable option.
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What about this current format.
Each team will play 9 games! and then you have semis and final, so finalists play as many as 11 ODI's.
That's waay too many. Irrespective of the quality of the games it's too long and people will lose interest half way through. It's just like a league, not a tournament.
They should instead have had 15 teams in 3 groups with top 2 going to quarterfinals along with the 2 best ranked 3rd finished teams.
So a winner would eventually play 4 group games + quarter+semi+final in total 7 games like Fifa WC.
The WC 2019 is going to be long and boring.
Now you are being silly by comparing Cricket with mighty Football! No one really watches Cricket outside a selected few countries where as the entire planet watches Football. Over half of the world will be watching the coming WC. Poor Cricket can't even dream off this! What do you mean international Cricket is Cricket and Football is not? No one watches Zimbabwe or Afghanistan at all! What on earth is "whereas in soccer international cricket is only every 2 years with UEFA and FIFA WCs alternating and the main interest" supposed to mean.
The purest form in Cricket are Test matches that are played in front of empty stadiums, even most one dayers are like that as well. Football at International and national level creates far more money then Cricket can even dream about. The world's largest countries excluding India don't give a damn about Cricket. You are totally wrong being a non Soccer /Football fan, just don't say this to the world that Cricket can complete with Football.
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The current format will have 48 matches. The format you are suggesting would have had 37. That is only a difference of 11 matches. In such a format you will have 6 weak sides, which, if equally divided amongst the three groups will mean there will be 7 matches involving a minnow in each group! Or a total of 21 out of 30 group matches. Moreover, with this format, barring some upset (highly unlikely) you will see the top 8 proceed to the quarter-finals. We have had such formats previously and they are always a minnow bashing snooze-fest till the quarters, and a horrible advertisement for ODI cricket. The only tweak I would have liked to see to the current format would have been to replace the semis with the sort of qualifiers that are played in T20 leagues these days, giving the first and second placed teams two chances to qualify for the final.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Scotland score a brilliant 371 for 5 from their 50 overs against England - yet the World Cup next year is only for 10 teams <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SCOvENG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1005804444821442560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hope the ICC is taking note of Scotland's win over England. Tournaments such as the World Cup need to expand and include teams such as Scotland <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCOvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SCOvENG</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1005870370812055552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Imagine a 14 team world cup with 2 groups of 7,just like last time, involving Ireland Scotland and Zimbabwe. With Ireland and Scotland's games being played at their home venues. Imagine the atmosphere that there would be over there for those matches. The associates have always created moments in world cups, be it back in 96 when Kenya beat WI, or 2007 where Pakistan and India got knocked out by them, 2011 where Ireland beat England, the dramatic games between Ireland and Zimbabwe, or Afghanistan vs Scotland from the last world cup.
But hey we're stuck with the same old teams playing again and again in a format where 2-3 teams will be essentially knocked out after a couple of games.
But hey we're stuck with the same old teams playing again and again in a format where 2-3 teams will be essentially knocked out after a couple of games.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fantastic win by <a href="https://twitter.com/CricketScotland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CricketScotland</a> over the world number one team last night! Can’t wait to see how the rest of the associates go in the world cu-oh.</p>— Jimmy Neesham (@JimmyNeesh) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimmyNeesh/status/1005917303546916870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I again express my disappointment and anger over ICC for destroying the expansion of cricket on Earth.
There is still a year left. They can do something about it if they want.
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Matches like the one involving Scotland yesterday are so refreshing to see. There was no broadcast in India, I was regularly following the scores and still enjoyed it.
Seriously the thought that Eng-Aus are going to play a pointless 5 match ODI series doesn't excite me one bit, I'm just bored of watching these teams play each other for a zillionth time.
Shame on the ICC once again.
Seriously the thought that Eng-Aus are going to play a pointless 5 match ODI series doesn't excite me one bit, I'm just bored of watching these teams play each other for a zillionth time.
Shame on the ICC once again.
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Nah I think the horse has bolted now. Matches have been announced, tickets have gone on sale and some fans may have even have been charged for their tickets. ICC will need to do a radical change to move things around now which they simply aren't going to do.
Ok. In that case, these associate nations should be scheduled to play more bilateral or multilateral tournaments with regular ICC members over next few years.
What a shame, Scotland and Ireland could have been co-hosts and increased their fan base through this worldcups. Would have been a dream for their players and they would have excellent crowd support. Great opportunity missed by ICC to increase cricketing following. Great shame.
The worst part is that Scotland were very close to beating West Indies but for the rain. Scotland with the recent win have once again proved that they belong at this level. Poor decision by ICC to just have 10 team tournament. But I guess it is too late and they may not be able to amend it now.
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