ICC’s General Manager for Cricket Geoff Allardice has hinted that the cricket’s governing body is looking at options of four-day Test matches for new Test entrants like Ireland, Afghanistan and weaker teams like Zimbabwe against top flight teams as part of the World Test Championship.
ICC’s General Manager for Cricket Geoff Allardice has hinted that the cricket’s governing body is looking at options of four-day Test matches for new Test entrants like Ireland, Afghanistan and weaker teams like Zimbabwe against top flight teams as part of the World Test Championship.
At the moment we are trying to get opportunities for Ireland, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe to play Test cricket against some of the teams that are in the World Test Championship,” saod Allardice as quoted by the Gulf News. “From the fixtures point of view, that often works better over four days than five,” said Allardice, who noted that even New Zealand had played four-day Test matches in the ‘70s.”
The World Test Championship, instated with the aim of bringing more context to bilateral Test cricket, will be played from July 15 2019 to April 30 2021.
The nine top-ranked sides in the world will compete in the tournament, with each side playing six series on a home-and-away basis against mutually selected opponents in the two-year cycle.
The top two sides will then contest in the ICC World Test Championship final in June 2021.
“Test cricket is played over wide range of conditions and I think lot of the countries that came to see how Test cricket would change if it is played over four days. Unfortunately, the only experience we have with it is the South Africa-Zimbabwe (Test match) last year and it only lasted two days,” he said.
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ICC’s General Manager for Cricket Geoff Allardice has hinted that the cricket’s governing body is looking at options of four-day Test matches for new Test entrants like Ireland, Afghanistan and weaker teams like Zimbabwe against top flight teams as part of the World Test Championship.
At the moment we are trying to get opportunities for Ireland, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe to play Test cricket against some of the teams that are in the World Test Championship,” saod Allardice as quoted by the Gulf News. “From the fixtures point of view, that often works better over four days than five,” said Allardice, who noted that even New Zealand had played four-day Test matches in the ‘70s.”
The World Test Championship, instated with the aim of bringing more context to bilateral Test cricket, will be played from July 15 2019 to April 30 2021.
The nine top-ranked sides in the world will compete in the tournament, with each side playing six series on a home-and-away basis against mutually selected opponents in the two-year cycle.
The top two sides will then contest in the ICC World Test Championship final in June 2021.
“Test cricket is played over wide range of conditions and I think lot of the countries that came to see how Test cricket would change if it is played over four days. Unfortunately, the only experience we have with it is the South Africa-Zimbabwe (Test match) last year and it only lasted two days,” he said.
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