The Future of Test Cricket

[Daemon]

I suppose it all depends on what they include as expenses relating to a test match. Marketing, ground fees, support staff, player salaries (quick google says $9k per test per player), accommodation, transport. I'm sure there's a lot more. $500,000 feels a bit high though.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea just from personal observation in HK I feel a lot of the costs are just arranging last-minute logistics - things like food, buses, hotels, short-term labour. Those things rack up.

Marketing you would expect to turn a profit - after all, what's the point of spending money on marketing if you don't earn that money back through sponsorship/gate revenue/TV deals?

I wonder if we can find a cost breakdown of Test matches in various countries.

 

[TheJediBrah]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/crick...ship-but-fourday-tests-remain-in-the-distance


*sigh*

One-test series? Do they even know the definition of the word series?

It would a good way to judge the really great Test sides, to see which ones can come back and win after losing the 1st test in a 1 test series,

 

[straw man]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...lands-schedule-a-harbinger-of-what-is-to-come

“It’s fair to say that hosting a Test match in New Zealand before Christmas is financially a challenge,” says David White, the organisation’s chief executive. It is a window into the economic obstacles to playing Test matches. For home boards, most Tests make a net loss of over US$500,000

Hrmm, I'm pretty sceptical about that figure, I too would like to see a breakdown.

 

[Kippax]

Is that really all we're talking? If it was ten or twenty times that then that might be a genuine problem, but ****, $50k per test to keep the country's core cricket supporters engaged with the game is a pittance.

You are merely chaining yourself to the trunk of a Pacific forest product, Straw Man, and not even a very good one.

 

[straw man]

a definite whiff of agribusiness about that

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Test championship & ODI league approved by International Cricket Council - BBC Sport

 

[S.Kennedy]

The championship proposal seems okay but the four-day test thing can bugger off.

 

[Gnske]

There will be a minimum of two matches in each series - all of which will be scheduled to last five days - but can be expanded to five for series such as the Ashes

Really makes you think

 

[Heboric]

The four day test is approved:

South Africa to play Zimbabwe in inaugural four-day Test - ESPNcricinfo

 

[straw man]

Slightly weird to trial it on a test that is only going to go 3 or 4 days anyway...

I hope it rains all day 3 and 4 before brilliant sunshine on day 5

 

[weldone]

The four day test is approved:

South Africa to play Zimbabwe in inaugural four-day Test - ESPNcricinfo

**** **** ****

The test will yield a result only because it is ****ing Zimbabwe, and then they'll claim the experiment is a success

 

[Jarquis]

Would everyone still have as much of an issue if they made the days longer? They haven’t actually settled on the playing conditions have they?

Four days of 110 overs would pretty much be the same

 

[_Ed_]

Four days of 110 overs would pretty much be the same

With over rates the way they are, I find it hard to believe they'd get anywhere near that - especially in places where it gets dark quite early.

 

[weldone]

Four days of 110 overs would pretty much be the same

sounds like an evil plan to kill some express pace bowlers

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Is anyone really going to care about the one day international championship? I thought that was what we had a world cup for ...

 

[Prince EWS]

Is anyone really going to care about the one day international championship? I thought that was what we had a world cup for ...

I couldn't care less about the league itself, but I like it because it'll ensure the lower-ranked teams actually get regular cricket against better sides and don't have to rock up at the World Cup once every four years having only played other minnows. It's a really great thing for teams ranked 10-13.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Slightly weird to trial it on a test that is only going to go 3 or 4 days anyway...

I hope it rains all day 3 and 4 before brilliant sunshine on day 5

Wouldn't that actually make it a sensible Test to trial it on?

 

[Prince EWS]

Wouldn't that actually make it a sensible Test to trial it on?

Yeah they even said in the press release that they're trialling it to make it less burdensome for the good sides to play Tests against the weaker ones now that they've added two brand new Test teams. At no stage have the ICC actually tried to argue that four day Tests between teams of comparable strength will be preferable as a spectacle -- that crap has only come from the braindead #intent faction of the cricketing media.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea I really don't mind 4 day tests as a way of shoe-horning games between smaller nations and larger ones in cramped schedules. Just don't let it become a regular thing and it's fine.