India shot down Test championship

[Craig]

Fair enough.

 

[silentstriker]

Yes I am aware

But it is a slippery slope my friend

Slippery slope to.....popularity? significance?

You're saying matches would become friendlies, but there would be no matches that could become friendlies, so I don't see what the downside is. If you play a match, it counts towards your ratings...simple as that.

 

[GIMH]

He's suggesting that soon enough matches that don't count to the championship will be played, hence the slippery slope

 

[archie mac]

He's suggesting that soon enough matches that don't count to the championship will be played, hence the slippery slope

Give that man a cigar

 

[straw man]

Seems like the idea of the test championship is coming up again, as per this article.

This is the plan to save Test cricket, devised by the independent body that addresses the game's biggest issues and to be presented to the International Cricket Council in November.

Former New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe, now a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club's World Cricket Committee, has formulated a knockout Test championship to be held every year with a grand final to be played at Lord's. Eventually the games would become day-night Tests.

To borrow a commonly used CW expression; 'ITSTL'.

 

[duffer]

"Save Test cricket"

Heh.

 

[Shri]

Why Lord's?

 

[S.P. Fleming]

Why Lord's?

because apparently its the 'home of cricket'

 

[Shri]

Screw Lords. Should be held in countries where the interest in test cricket is starting to fade. Like in the West Indies, RSA or in the fringe cricket countries like NZ, Bangla etc. England isn't in any danger as far as tests are concerned after the ashes win and their gengeral test match following. Other nations need it more.

Thats my opinion.

 

[marc71178]

Except how many people would turn up in (for example) the West Indies to see 2 foreign teams when they don't turn up to see their own team?

 

[G.I.Joe]

How about just holding the final in the country that topped the league table?

 

[silentstriker]

Seems like the idea of the test championship is coming up again, as per this article.



To borrow a commonly used CW expression; 'ITSTL'.

"Save Test cricket"

Heh.

I don't like it. Every year is too often, it'll mean it's going to be a one-game knockout type scenario. Although, once we have more information, I could possibly be convinced.

I'd much rather have a points table through bilateral tours, making sure everyone plays everyone, and at the end of the 3 or 4 years, the #2 team goes to #1 team's country and plays a four or five Test final to determine the winner.

 

[Athlai]

Every second year would be better so in that time every country has toured or had a home series against every other country.

 

[Prince EWS]

I don't like it. Every year is too often, it'll mean it's going to be a one-game knockout type scenario. Although, once we have more information, I could possibly be convinced.

I'd much rather have a points table through bilateral tours, making sure everyone plays everyone, and at the end of the 3 or 4 years, the #2 team goes to #1 team's country and plays a four or five Test final to determine the winner.

AWTA so very strongly.

 

[Richard]

"Save Test cricket"

Heh.

Yeah, stuff and nonsense. If at any point it does become abundantly clear that Test cricket needs "saving", then is the time to be taking sheer crazy drastic measures like this.

And not any time until.

 

[silentstriker]

He's suggesting that soon enough matches that don't count to the championship will be played, hence the slippery slope

That doesn't make sense. If every Test yields points, and they all count towards the rankings, how could a match be played that doesn't count? Are you talking about another format besides Tests?

 

[silentstriker]

Yeah, stuff and nonsense. If at any point it does become abundantly clear that Test cricket needs "saving", then is the time to be taking sheer crazy drastic measures like this.

And not any time until.

Just because it may not need saving in England, doesn't mean it doesn't need saving in other countries. Test match crowds in India are a disgrace, compared with as little as ten, twelve years ago.

 

[Richard]

They may be a disgrace compared to 10-12 years ago, but they're still better than most places. In New Zealand and Sri Lanka, for example, Test crowds have just about always been non-existent. It doesn't mean plenty of hardcore fans don't follow their team in Test cricket. I have no memory of a time when they were good in Pakistan, though I think there may have been one.

 

[Faisal1985]

India is certainly very influential in ICC"s decisions now a days. Money Talks my friend.......i don't blame BCCI, because whom ever would have had the power that BCCI enjoys now, would have done the same thing and tilted the ICC towards themselves....

 

[silentstriker]

They may be a disgrace compared to 10-12 years ago, but they're still better than most places. In New Zealand and Sri Lanka, for example, Test crowds have just about always been non-existent. It doesn't mean plenty of hardcore fans don't follow their team in Test cricket. I have no memory of a time when they were good in Pakistan, though I think there may have been one.

So then it doesn't matter it's dying in India?