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Posted: Fri May 28th, 2004 12:10 pm |
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Moves to preserve the standards of Test cricket
ICC considering three-tier system for Test cricket
Wisden Cricinfo staff
May 28, 2004
With so many leading cricketers clamouring for a two-tier format for Test cricket, the International Cricket Council may finally put such a system in place. According to a report in SuperSport, a South African sports website, Dave Richardson, the ICC's general manager, is currently presiding over discussions on a proposal to restrict Test cricket to eight teams, while the next two rungs would consist of 12 teams, split into two divisions of six each.
Teams in the elite group would be required to play each other in home and away series – comprising of two or three Tests each – which would ensure that a full round of Test series takes not more than three years instead of the current five, with every team playing 14 Tests a year.
The report also says that the second-division matches would be four-day games, played on a home-and-away basis. The winner of the second division would then take on the team which finished last in the elite group in a one-off Test. Victory in that match would promote the second-division winner into the elite group. So, as per current standings in the ICC Test Championship table, West Indies will be battling Zimbabwe or Bangladesh to avoid relegation.
For teams not good enough to make it to the top 14 but still harbouring hopes of climbing the rungs, there is also a proposal to include a third tier as well. As with the second division, the team topping the third tier will also get an opportunity to move up the ladder with a play-off against the wooden spooners of the second division.
The ICC, however, refused to confirm that such a system was being discussed. Replying to a query, Jon Long, the ICC's project officer, only stated what had already been revealed after the Cricket Committee meeting in Dubai two weeks ago: "Malcolm Speed [the ICC chief executive] announced a review of the structure of international cricket in June 2003. This review is on-going and will not be completed for several months. Until it has been completed it is impossible to speculate what the outcomes or recommendations will be."
The need to separate the top teams from the rest has been felt especially strongly of late, with Zimbabwe weakened considerably by the absence of 15 of their best players and Bangladesh struggling to make an impression.
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Posted: Fri May 28th, 2004 12:17 pm |
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Look like WICB finally realizes their dreams under Lara captaincy.
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Posted: Fri May 28th, 2004 01:17 pm |
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Oh God! It even worse than I thought! Now its three levels. Imagine westindies in group 3 axing terrible down at the bottom. Wow!
Yet the problem that pushes all this talk about 3-tier is a creation of the ICC. Talk about your complete manipulation.
The ICC has some kind of plan for cricket it is carrying out.
The ICC creates problems in order to fix them. But fix them how? By the implementation of the their intent all along.
Bang and Zim have no right to be playing test cricket yet. They are the only two really weak links and did need to be at the top yet.
Westindies, a traditional powerhose in bad times, crciket should have no probkems carrying becase of its huge tradition, and the sure fact that we will come back.
Or are they sure we wont come back? If so how can they be?
That there is this intense impatientience with westindian decline in the white countries, an impatience that was never evident when England and Australia were in their own low periods, suggests a not insignficant goal of all ICC manipulation, is the relegation of the westinies to full impotence - to a low we may hardly be able to rise from again.
I have long suggested that white crciket cannot stand westindian domination, and not only would they do anything on and of the field to eliminate any such possibly from developing again, are in the procees of doing so, have in fact been so for long now.
The preferance of Richardson over Haynes for the captaincy some 12 years ago can be recognized as a modern starting point of manipulation towards this gaol.
What that selection meant is that there are westindians at the highest levels in collusion with international interests to achieve the goal of the complete reduction of westindies cricket.
The westindies elite can never have been comfortable with a powerful, manly, westindies team, led by strong Black men, as a rallying point for the ordinary people of the westindies.
That westindian elite must have had many moments of torment over that one. Soon enough, even now, they can begin to rest easier, as westindies cricket is made to subside into utter futility.
High slappin all around for a job well done in westindian boardrooms? Relief for the aussies and pommies?
Well cricket is only one source of trouble for the wesindian elite. They are pushing Globalisation which gives the west the legal justification to intervene in the westindies if trouble for the elite arises.
Globalisation alo means an adhesion of he westindies to the west in renewed colonial fashion, but this of a far more dangeous kind that the awful British thing we survived.
Globalisation means the complete marginalisation of the westindian people, even the end of the westindian middle classes as we have know them.
All that will be left would be an elite subservient and prostrate to the western powers though living in luxury. Along with reams of westindian absolutely poor and disenfranchised people.
I mean terribly poor people made so by corporate activity, predated upon by wetern military might, increasingly from afar as military technology grows, beset by all manner of desease manufactured in the laboratories of the west.
It is not that west needs any legal justification for intervention for they would invade anyway. But what ent meet you ent pass yuh. It still dey waiting to bounce yuh rass.
The two trends revolution and corporate speed at its pre-emtion, hoepfully works out in favour or revolution in the interest of all the ordinary people of the world.
If it does not, and it can only work out in our favour by our own direct action, then it is we who gets bounced.
So until the day when they kill off the ordinary people, or engineer us into psycological futility, the revolution looms as a potential to settle accounts and usher in a new and better way.
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Posted: Fri May 28th, 2004 01:18 pm |
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moves to preserve the integrity of test criket my a....
Moves to secure corporate globalist interests in sport certainly.
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