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How’s the next ICC FTP looking for your team - 2023-27 and beyond?
- Thread starter Jezroy
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HeathDavisSpeed
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There is such a thing as a loss-leader though, which I suspect has been used in the past to justify investment into Cricket USA.
When it comes to Test cricket, the sort of people who follow it will (generally) support their team through the peaks and troughs. There's been some pretty bleak times for most international cricket teams, and those fans have stuck by their teams through those troughs. What is to say new fans enticed by a smorgasbord of T20I will be similarly inclined? Perhaps they only follow whilst their team is successful? Maybe they just want to hear Danny Morrison wax lyrical about another DLF MAXIMUM?
In the meantime, the "uneconomical" Test fan no longer follows their team as that format has gone. When the international team hits a nadir, who's going to still pay to watch them?
TheBrand
First Class Debutant
During one of the rain delays there was a pretty in depth discussion about the future of cricket between Athers, Ravi Shastri, Pollock, Nasser, Morgan etc etc
Shastri was straight up and just said there needs to be less teams playing or a two tier system and that test cricket should be quality over quantity.
You could have two tiers:
Tier 1: (3 test series min)
Australia
India
England
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Tier 2: (2 test series)
West Indies
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
Zimbabwe
Ireland
And then at the end of every cycle you have a promotion/relegation match or something. Just spit balling. But would surely help ICC in the revenue sharing etc.
Shastri was straight up and just said there needs to be less teams playing or a two tier system and that test cricket should be quality over quantity.
You could have two tiers:
Tier 1: (3 test series min)
Australia
India
England
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Tier 2: (2 test series)
West Indies
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
Zimbabwe
Ireland
And then at the end of every cycle you have a promotion/relegation match or something. Just spit balling. But would surely help ICC in the revenue sharing etc.
TheJediBrah
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Why would West Indies bother playing Tests if it was only against those tier 2 teams, would lose so much money
TheJediBrah
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Imagine how good the players' stats would be though
Xuhaib
International Coach
Decent suggestion by Osman but it would not fly with BCCI I think BCCI is mainly run by career business man who all come from a culture of where the biggest and most powerful makes the most money and dominates based on market share, most of these guys are Chairman or board members of their family companies that are market leaders in their industry so they use the same approach of running BCCI where a complete different approach is needed as global health of the game is very important for Indian cricket to remain an attractive product in the future.
Cricket could learn from the NFL and start thinking of itself as a collective
At the moment international cricket is a loose coalition of often conflicting self-interests. If that doesn't change, the future is grimwww.espncricinfo.com
TheBrand
First Class Debutant
they lose money no matter who they play against haha.
Socerer 01
International Captain
there is a difference between losing a small amount of money by playing against a top side and then making up the deficit with white ball games against the same side as part of the tour compared to losing a large amount playing a side with no hope of ever breaking even though
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It’s a dumb idea. Just stop it ffs
TheBrand
First Class Debutant
I know. It would never happen.
TheJediBrah
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If they had a 2 tier system, the moment India, Aus or England got relegated the whole thing would have to be immediately scrapped
Prince EWS
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Yeah I don't think Shastri would actually have pure performance-based promotion and relegation in his two tiered system. You'd probably need to be voted up or down by the other boards based on a really subjective criteria that ensured those three were never actually relegated unless they stopped being financial powerhouses.
So Tier 1 would be India, Australia, England and the 2-3 teams they thought would generate the most interest and revenue for the next cycle and voted up (not even necessarily the three best other teams), and Tier 2 would just be everyone else.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
We'd get less compulsory Test series between rich boards and poor boards.
This would alleviate the 'too much cricket' problem and allow rich boards to expand their domestic franchise T20 comps until the point we hit the same problem again.
One man's 'help with' is another man's 'rub salt into the wound of'.
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GotSpin
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All countries should be able to play tests if they want to. Why the **** do they need status to play them is ****ing dumb