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A vision of the future for the game we love! And we congratulate [MENTION=142755]A.A.Z[/MENTION] for his thoughts on this very interesting thread!
South Asia will become the hub of cricket just like Europe and football. There will a year long Asian T20 league with month long breaks for international series in between throughout the year. The t20 league will be dominated by teams from India, a couple from Bangladesh, and one each from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and maybe even one from Hong Kong, UAE and Nepal. If India-Pak relations improve half a dozen Pakistani teams could be part of the league as well.
Non-Asian nations will lose interest in cricket domestically and won't have the popularity to compete with the Asian league but their international teams will survive with their best players living and playing in Asia. T20 franchises could have their own first-class and list a teams with interchangeable players. First-class and list a teams would have little importance but would be used for practice for international cricket.
International cricket would be played on a 4-year cycle with only 3 match home and away bilateral series between nations serving as qualifiers for the World cup. In a 4-year cycle each team could play all other teams home and away once and facilitate an odi league with the top teams qualifying for the world cup. This would ensure small nations are toured by bigger nations and smaller nations would get to tour bigger nations as well ending the monopoly of powerful boards. Away wins could have slightly higher points than home wins. Lucrative bilateral series could have more than 3 matches but the points denomination would have to be adjusted towards a 3 match series to keep things constant.
Test cricket could have its own league exactly like the odi league. Away wins would garner more points than home wins and a win would have much higher points than a draw encouraging teams to risk losing to win rather than playing out draws. This would promote a more exciting and strategic brand of test cricket, games may even become 4 day games beginning on Thursdays and ending on Sundays.
T20 could have it's own qualification league like the odi league but would be played on a 2-year cycle instead, and all teams would not face each other but rather qualification could be divided into qualifying groups like it is in football. The top teams would qualify for the world t20.
Fast bowlers will be an extinct breed, with variations in bowling being the key for spinners and medium pacers. Chuckers maybe given more margin for arm extension to keep things fair between bat and ball. Power-hitting will be more important than anything else and the best batsmen may just be exceptional sloggers who can put away almost any ball as long as they can read the ball off the pitch as well as off the bowlers hand, and have decent foot movement.