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RE: Bowlers benefit from ODI rule changes - Bada - 06-28-2015
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RE: Bowlers benefit from ODI rule changes - mugatiya - 07-15-2015
MCC KAPOWS Giles Clarke
-Cricket should be part of the Olympics
-World Cup should expand to 12 from 10
Brearely dropping some balls of steel for once in a committee decision. gtfo Clarke
Go MCC!
Quote:The MCC World Cricket Committee have described the reorganisation of the World Cup to a 10 team event as "a retrograde step" and called for T20 cricket to become an Olympic sport.
Calling for a rethink of the ICC's decision to cut the number of participants in future World Cups from 14 to 10, the committee criticised the move as "a handbrake for the development of the sport."
Instead, they have recommended a 12-team tournament preceded by a "preliminary qualification round" for the "lower ranked Full Member teams and the top Associate Nations."
Concerned that the sport is in danger of contracting globally, the WCM urged "all governing bodies around the world to get behind a bid" to make cricket an Olympic sport. This, the committee believes, would "expose the game positively to new markets" and enable many developing cricket nations to benefit from the government funding that is linked to Olympic involvement.
The committee, an independent think-thank that is currently chaired by former England captain Mike Brearley and includes other distinguished former captains such as Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Shaun Pollock and Sourav Ganguly as well as current ICC CEO Dave Richardson, heard from a variety of administrators including ICC Chairman N Srinivasan and the ECB's chairman and CEO, Colin Graves and Tom Harrison respectively.
Intriguingly, the committee suggested that the ECB had been against cricket's inclusion in the Olympics in the past but suggested they were now more open to the idea. And the committee described their decision to pursue involvement in the Olympics as "unanimous;" a revealing choice of words bearing in mind that Richardson sits upon it.
Pressed on whether Giles Clarke, the ECB President and representative at the ICC - who has been implacably opposed to Olympic involvement - would be willing to shift his position, Mike Brearley, the committee chairman, suggested he will have "to do what he is told."
RE: ICC News Thread - mugatiya - 07-15-2015
Renamed this to ICC/MCC News thread so any committee/ decision related stuff can go here.
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - pj57 - 07-15-2015
Well done by the MCC cricket committee....Brearley has put Giles Clarke in his place.
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - nighthawk - 07-15-2015
Great to hear. So would ICC follow these decisions?
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - Bada - 07-16-2015
Mike Brearley, chairman of the MCC's World Cricket Committee, has apologised to Giles Clarke, the ECB president, after suggesting Clarke would have to "do what he's told" with regard to the possibility of cricket seeking to become an Olympic sport.
Brearley was speaking at a press conference after the MCC announced its support for cricket's involvement in the Olympics. Clarke, who was ECB chairman between 2007 and 2015, is understood to be opposed to an Olympic bid.
However, Brearley said there could be a change of stance at the ECB, after discussions with the new chairman, Colin Graves, and chief executive, Tom Harrison. Clarke became the ECB's first president when Graves succeeded him and Brearley said he would have to accept whatever decision the governing body made.
"Colin and Tom acknowledged that the view of the ECB has been strongly anti it, but they say they are open to rethinking," Brearley said. "The president of the ECB is an employee of the board and has to report to the board. He has to do what he's told."
The MCC has now released a statement from Brearley, clarifying his comments.
"I have apologised to Giles Clarke," Brearley said. "What I should have said was that if the ECB changes its policy regarding cricket in the Olympics, then it would of course be Giles' job to present that policy to ICC. Giles is not an employee of the ECB board and I did not intend to imply that he was."
The latest gathering of the World Cricket Committee also led to criticism of the ICC's decision to reduce the World Cup to ten teams, calling it "a handbrake for the development of the sport". The committee, which is made up of former players and officials and is independent of the MCC, meets twice a year to discuss issues affecting the game.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/mcc/content/story/899073.html
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 07-16-2015
Brearley back peddling lol.
Either way hope the decisions are followed through by ECB and ICC.
Clarke is the biggest road block to the Olympics.
It is fkn hilarious that Richardson sits on the MCC and ICC committees and both unanimously agree to do opposite things. He is a real joker.
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 07-29-2015
Good ol Wally talking about a 16 team WC at some point.
But the kicker is the 2018 WC qualifiers for which he wants 4 full members to have to qualify iso the 2 that is there right now.
This should be interesting and would like see jokers like JB's thoughts on SL actually having to qualify for a WC like the rest of the world haha. Classic.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/903077.html
"I can understand all these nations [being unhappy], but don't forget the ten teams are the ten best teams. It's not barred to anybody, and in fact in the new rights cycle, in the third year there's no ICC event other than a World Cup qualifier, and we're hoping that will become a significant event in the broadcaster's calendar."
This qualifying event, scheduled to take place in 2018, is yet to be completely settled in terms of format. Debate has intensified over how many Full Member countries should be required to qualify.
"I hope I get my way - but I wouldn't guarantee it - which would be four Full Members having to qualify in that tournament after the first six qualify on the rankings," Edwards says. "I think that would be a fantastic tournament, a lot of interest. But I'd say the view is eight, because no one wants to put themselves on the line. That's part of the club mentality that has been there for 100 years that I've been working hard to try to break down.
"The beauty of having ICC events without having to have India, Australia, England or South Africa playing is good, because they're the teams who are overloaded in terms of their annual calendars. So to be able to bring those other nations to the top of the pile [in a qualifying event] is good."
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 07-29-2015
"Australia's position is very simple - we believe cricket should be an Olympic sport in T20," he says. "But we haven't got a majority around the board table, so that debate will go on. I think it's got to be resolved by 2017 for the 2024 games. It was good to see England make some positive comments after the MCC meeting, because they were certainly against it, because they just see it interrupting their cricket summer.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/903077.html
RE: ICC / MCC News Thread - mugatiya - 07-29-2015
Some other good news
Of all Edwards' ideas, the one he would most like to bequeath to world cricket is that of a calendar where every match has a reason for existing that is competitive rather than financial. His proposal for limited-overs cricket to be played to a harder ranking system for World Cups - he would like to see the 50-over game labelled World Cup CricketTM - is progressing with a view to presenting it to broadcasters for the next rights cycle.
"Realistically it would start after the next World Cup if we get somewhere, which I think we will," Edwards says. "It's rolling now, it could never have rolled without the reforms at ICC, we'd have gone nowhere. I tried debating it in the good old days and you couldn't even get it on the agenda. But now ICC are working on it, it's coming through ExCo, my committee, and I'm driving it. We had good discussion in Barbados about it."
Such a proposal would work better with a greater number of nations performing strongly and thus becoming more attractive as touring teams. The current patchwork of bilateral agreements is predicated almost purely on money, and has effectively left Test cricket, in particular, to be played among the favoured few. Not for the first time, Edwards stresses that better standards of play can drive the commercial side of the game, rather than things always being the other way round.
"It's not that simple because some nations play a lot more games than others. The FTP's there until 2023, so there needs to be changes made to that, depending on what format you settle on," he says. "The idea would be, every game you play would be going towards a table or ranking system so that every one-day game or World Cup Cricket game, which is what I want to call it, counts.
"How we're going to do it? There's a lot to be done, and nothing can really happen until after the next World Cup, but that will come around quickly."