Why is ICC unfair towards smaller teams in the venue allotment for the 2019 World Cup?

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Why is ICC unfair towards smaller teams, in the venue allotment for the 2019 World Cup?


The Semi finals and the Final are at Edgbaston (Birmingham), Old Trafford (Manchester) and Lord's (London).

Any team would like to play on these grounds during the Round Robin stage to have a fair idea about the weather, pitches, dimensions of the ground, scoring areas and the slope at the Lord's. This may even help in choosing the right 11 for a particular ground, which may even influence the result of the match sometimes.

This is the number of times a team plays on either of these three grounds


IND: 4
NZ: 4
PAK: 4
AUS: 3
ENG: 3
SA: 3
BAN: 2
WIN: 2
AFG: 1
SL: 0

As we can see that smaller teams don't play much games on these grounds, and I don't know what SLCB did to ICC, poor guys can't get a single game on either of these 3 grounds.


And PAKISTAN is the only country to play 4 games at these venues and also to have 2 games at the Lord's, the venue for the final. Whereas India play just one game at Lord's.


ICC == PCB??

Moreover ICC should help smaller teams to get good practice and make the tournament competitive. It looks like a typical desi mentality, Rich becoming richer and the poor, poorer.

Or does it has any desi influence in the venue allotment, like BCCI and PCB joined hands to get maximum games on these venues, and also gave NZ similar (4)no.of games so that others don't get an impression that BCCI and PCB are playing games behind the scenes, by giving themselves the maximum number of games on the knockout venues.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

It looks like ICC intentionally wants India and Pakistan, both to enter the knockouts and clash again either in semis or finals.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Good, they don't deserve it.

 

[Shaddy86]

Because it's financially more viable to play bigger teams at these venues. ICC has to take care of the business side of things too.

 

[GoUgandaCranes]

It looks like ICC intentionally wants India and Pakistan, both to enter the knockouts and clash again either in semis or finals.

ICC == Najam Sethi.

The man can fix anything. Literally, a n y t h i n g.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Good, they don't deserve it.

Then how does Pakistan deserve more games than SA, ENG and AUS, on these venues? Moreover playing 2 games at Lord's.

How does SL get not a single game, whereas the likes of WI, Ban, and even Afghanistan get a game that too against ENG

It's clearly the influence of the board at the ICC. Nowadays, SLCB is at odds with ICC, whereas BCB and ACB has the backing of BCCI and hence get few games compared to SL.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Then how does Pakistan deserve more games than SA, ENG and AUS, on these venues? Moreover playing 2 games at Lord's.

How does SL get not a single game, whereas the likes of WI, Ban, and even Afghanistan get a game that too against ENG

It's clearly the influence of the board at the ICC. Nowadays, SLCB is at odds with ICC, whereas BCB and ACB has the backing of BCCI and hence get few games compared to SL.

Pakistan are box office in England and won the last tournament there.

SL has been disappointing for a long time now and has wasted years of ICC's investment. Windies are exciting to watch, Bangladesh have a bigger fan base and Afghanistan is a team on the rise which needs exposure.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Pakistan are box office in England and won the last tournament there.

SL has been disappointing for a long time now and has wasted years of ICC's investment. Windies are exciting to watch, Bangladesh have a bigger fan base and Afghanistan is a team on the rise which needs exposure.

Brother, I don't have any problem with Pakistan getting games. My question is, if it's performance then why not Aus, SA and the hosts themselves?

Okay, if it's Random why can't u give a single game, just one to the poor Sri lankans. They just now defeated SA(different format tho). Just imagine a team playing directly on the venue for the first time during the knockouts.

Moreover Pakistan also play 6 matches just before WC in England, against England.

 

[Markhor]

There aren't massive differences between the grounds. They'll all be flat decks with Lord's being the slowest and lowest pitch, Old Trafford offering more pace/bounce, and Edgbaston with slightly more pace than Lord's but still flat.

Pakistan plays Australia at Taunton which has some of the smallest boundaries in the country which disadvantages our bowling attack so it works both ways.

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Brother, I don't have any problem with Pakistan getting games. My question is, if it's performance then why not Aus, SA and the hosts themselves?

Okay, if it's Random why can't u give a single game, just one to the poor Sri lankans. They just now defeated SA(different format tho). Just imagine a team playing directly on the venue for the first time during the knockouts.

Moreover Pakistan also play 6 matches just before WC in England, against England.

Because Pakistan won the last tournament there?

Good preparation for Pakistan.

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Pakistan plays Australia at Taunton which has some of the smallest boundaries in the country which disadvantages our bowling attack so it works both ways.

It is not a disadvantage, rather advantage for u guys. Australia is going to hit irrespective of small or not, they've good hitters, but a 60 mtr or a 90 mtr it's just a 6 nothing more than that. Yes, they may hit few extra 6's.

But when it comes to ur batting, u don't have good hitters, apart from Fakhar and Asif Ali. That is where the advantage is. If ur batsmen can just handle bounce, then even a 65 mtr hit (a mishit) can gain a 6 for u guys.

Typical example: Recent NZ T20I series. Guptill, Munro, De GRANDHOMME and Taylor were hitting way back into the stands and got only 6's. Whereas ur team, even Babar, Sarfraz and Shehzad were getting sixes due to smaller boundaries. And u were also getting 6s for those shots.

Result, u guys won the series 2-1, because boundaries were short and u guys, despite not having big hitters were able to keep up with the hitting, due to the small boundaries and equalled the number of sixes by the New Zealanders

 

[mak36]

India are the only side to play twice at both semi final venues in the group stages. Why are you silent about that?

 

[TeymurBlake]

I think ICC are looking at it from a financial point of view where they can maximise the capacity of the grounds from us desi fans. London, Birmingham and Manchester are the places where we desi's are the most, so yeah it makes sense hosting it there.

 

[Ab Fan]

Financial point of view IMO. India and Pakistan getting 4 matches. NZ might be a random scenario.

 

[super hitter]

Brother, I don't have any problem with Pakistan getting games. My question is, if it's performance then why not Aus, SA and the hosts themselves?

Okay, if it's Random why can't u give a single game, just one to the poor Sri lankans. They just now defeated SA(different format tho). Just imagine a team playing directly on the venue for the first time during the knockouts.

Moreover Pakistan also play 6 matches just before WC in England, against England.

Synonym to Srilanka is match fixing.

BTW, they're one of the worst teams, doesn't pull big crowds.

Secondly, It has nothing to do with boards influence, otherwise PCB was going to have none of the matches on those venues.

Moreover, playing 2 games at the same venue doesn't give an advantage since its Cricket, and the pitch conditions change after every match and the ground staff has a big role to play. Teams get enough time to practice on these grounds before the match so this excuse is useless.

And Pakistan has a long time relationship with Lords.

 

[super hitter]

Brother, I don't have any problem with Pakistan getting games. My question is, if it's performance then why not Aus, SA and the hosts themselves?

Okay, if it's Random why can't u give a single game, just one to the poor Sri lankans. They just now defeated SA(different format tho). Just imagine a team playing directly on the venue for the first time during the knockouts.

Moreover Pakistan also play 6 matches just before WC in England, against England.

What really is your excuse mate?

Pakistan postponed their LOI's from this years summer to next year's in order to warm up for the World Cup. ICC has nothing to do with that!

You're just finding excuses to show that Pakistan's getting advantage in every single aspect of the game despite knowing that PCB is the most poor board and can't make all these decisions of World Cup venues etc.