Australian captain Michael Clarke (pictured) was during contingency Monday with his prototype Ricky Ponting over a International Cricket Council’s moves to cut a series of teams during a 2015 World Cup.
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SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian captain Michael Clarke was during contingency Monday with his prototype Ricky Ponting over a International Cricket Council’s moves to cut a series of teams during a 2015 World Cup.
In an early pointer of a dissimilarity in captaincy styles with Ponting, Clarke spoke out in await of minnow nations, who would approaching be axed if a tournament’s distance was reduced.
“I unequivocally suffer saying a minnow teams removing an eventuality to be honest, we theory it’s up to a ICC to work out whatever they consider is in a raise of a game, patently that’s their priority,” Clarke told reporters prior to a Australian team’s depart for a reduced debate to Bangladesh.
An ICC preference upon a emanate was approaching to be done in Mumbai upon Monday following a assembly of a senior manager board.
Ponting called for fewer teams during this year’s World Cup forward of a ICC’s preference upon culling a series of countries from fourteen to 10 for a subsequent book in Australia as well as New Zealand in 4 years time.
Ponting, who stepped down as Australian captain final week, pronounced in Feb which a change had to be struck in in in between enlivening a expansion of a diversion as well as mending a peculiarity of a World Cup competition.
The World Cup format again has been criticised as tediously drawn out during a organisation stages, definition it took 6 weeks to finish a 2011 eventuality in India, Sri Lanka as well as Bangladesh.
Clarke concluded which a make up could be improved, though pronounced which shouldn’t indispensably be during a responsibility of a building countries, with Ireland many particularly adding fad to a new World Cup, won by India upon Saturday.
“The dual World Cups I’ve been concerned in have been fantastic,” he said.
“It positively does feel in in in between games similar to we have a prolonged duration when you’ve got 6 or 7 days in in in between games, though I’ve enjoyed saying all a minnow teams play.
“We’ve seen via this World Cup there was a couple of upsets where there was a little good cricket played,” he added.
Ireland scored a single of a greatest upsets in World Cup story when they defeated England with a glorious run-chase final month, whilst a Irish additionally done a Super 8 theatre in 2007 when they kick Pakistan.
The ICC currently has 10 full-member nations, definition if a Cup was cut to 10 teams, a minnow countries such as Kenya, a Netherlands as well as Canada would onslaught to qualify.
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