How’s the next ICC FTP looking for your team - 2023-27 and beyond?

[Jezroy]

India and Australia to battle for Border-Gavaskar Trophy over five Tests in next FTP cycle

ODI tri-series are set for a comeback; 15 five-match T20I series are also proposed

www.espncricinfo.com

ICC FTP: Bangladesh land Test and ODI jackpot in 2023-2027 cycle

They play 34 Tests, 59 ODIs and 51 T20Is in the next four years; only West Indies have more games slotted in this period

www.espncricinfo.com

Bangladesh have done well by the looks. Even NZ have probably more tests than I hoped they would (even though I’m sure we’ll get the old “oh yeah… we’re going to replace 1 of those tests with 2 T20s to make some more money…”).

NZ have 12 series in the WTC (so maybe others to be added) with 32 tests (currently - which may include tests outside the WTC - 1 vs Ireland, 1 or 2 vs Zim, and 1 vs Afghanistan, if they go ahead). Looks like 3 test series in England and India.

I’d say…

Home vs Aus, England, SA - 2 each
Away vs IND, BAN, SL - 3, 2, and 2

Home vs IND, WI, SL - 2 each
Away vs AUS, ENG, PAK - 2, 3, 2

That’d make 26. Then 3 more one offs vs minnows. So maybe an extra series, or the Aussie away series might have 3?

But yes, T20 is the dominant format. And TBF there is a bit more ODI cricket than I thought.

Be interesting to see the final schedule… and then how much of it plays out ?

 

[Aritro]

Lol Bangladesh landing 34 tests just in time for all our good players to retire and kick off a few years in which we'll surely produce some of the most hapless performances we've had since the early to mid-2000s. Perfect

 

[Aritro]

I see India are going to play a lot of two-test series which is grim. As is South Africa playing fewer than 30 tests in that period.

Is the total number of tests being played fewer than previous cycles?

 

[chathudk]

One ESPN article has mentioned that NZ will be playing four 3-match Test series vs Ind (1), Aus (1), ENG (2) which makes 28 Tests in WTC 2025, 2027.

Another article has mentioned that NZ will also play at least one Test match against ZIM (1), AFG (1), IRE (2).

That's their 32 Test matches in 2023-2027.

 

[chathudk]

Looks like Sri Lanka will have only 26 Tests in 2023-2027. Really Disappointing. 24 WTC Tests + one each against Ire & Afg.
They played 26 in the last 2 WTC cycles as well. (24 WTC+ZIM2)

 

[Aritro]

How many tests did SA play last cycle? I can't believe they're under 30 for the next one.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Is there a full copy of the schedule anywhere? Very interested in Tests vs. Ireland, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe.

 

[Aritro]

I've just gone back and counted, and it appears South Africa played 55 test matches in the five-year FTP between May 2014 and July 2019. Now they're down to less than 30 over four years.

**** that's depressing.

 

[ataraxia]

Looks like Sri Lanka will have only 26 Tests in 2023-2027. Really Disappointing. 24 WTC Tests + one each against Ire & Afg.
They played 26 in the last 2 WTC cycles as well. (24 WTC+ZIM2)

When's the last time SL played a test match series over two matches in length?

 

[ataraxia]

The IPL's now apparently getting a 74-day window. Maybe the death of cricket is fast approaching after all.

Didn't David White recently say NZ would play 9 tests a year? Which tbh isn't that bad; I'd expect more like 7. There's only 8 here, and likely not that many will happen. What's direr is that, Big 3 and Bangladesh aside, no other nation passes 30 tests.

 

[Aritro]

NZ also passes 30 tests according to that article?

But yeah, there's plenty about it that's dire. 9 a year, had it happened, seems healthy enough by normal NZ standards or have you traditionally played more than that?

I'm hoping there's some room to manoeuvre with teams adding a test here and there (and obviously potentially dropping them). It seems to happen now and then that boards change the number of tests in a bilateral series?

 

[Aritro]

FWIW, Bangladesh will have played 30 tests by the end of this cycle, and Australia already dropped two of them. And I can't remember if other nations did. So us playing 34 instead of the (at least) 32 that were scheduled in the current cycle isn't really an improvement. And half the teams are presumably playing less than they used to.

Bye bye test cricket. It was nice knowing you when you mattered.

 

[Flem274*]

We're marketed as the rejectors of diamonds and trashy fancy ****, you'd think our gen would rebel against T20 invasion. It's the pinnacle of premium mediocre.

 

[trundler]

How many are Pakistan getting?

 

[Aritro]

I've just gone back and counted, and it appears South Africa played 55 test matches in the five-year FTP between May 2014 and July 2019. Now they're down to less than 30 over four years.

**** that's depressing.

Just did a quick count running my eye down a list of results and it appears Sri Lanka also played 55 tests in the five-year May 2014 to July 2019 cycle. Now they're down to 26 over four years.

 

[chathudk]

Just did a quick count running my eye down a list of results and it appears Sri Lanka also played 55 tests in the five-year May 2014 to July 2019 cycle. Now they're down to 26 over four years.

Sri Lanka will play their next Test series after 8 months from now. Not sure the senior players like Dimuth, Mathews and Chandimal will stay just to play very few Test matches. Lakmal already left for County Cricket because of the lack of fixtures. Before 2019, there were years when SL played 12 Test matches. Won't happen again.

 

[GotSpin]

It'll depend how closely the boards follow the FTP really...its not great viewing at the moment though but they rarely stick to it right?

 

[GotSpin]

The IPL's now apparently getting a 74-day window. Maybe the death of cricket is fast approaching after all.

Didn't David White recently say NZ would play 9 tests a year? Which tbh isn't that bad; I'd expect more like 7. There's only 8 here, and likely not that many will happen. What's direr is that, Big 3 and Bangladesh aside, no other nation passes 30 tests.

8-9 tests a year isn't that bad if the tours were done properly. Obviously two test series are better than nothing but they're pretty disappointing

There's obviously a massive cause for concern here but the FTP is hardly binding (for good and bad)

 

[trundler]

How many are Pakistan getting?

Answer me, you useless *****.

 

[honestbharani]

Answer me, you useless ****s.

Lesser than Bangladesh