The International Cricket Council has reliable a argumentative preference to condense a 2015 as well as 2019 World Cups to usually 10 teams, notwithstanding drawn out objections.
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MUMBAI (AFP) – The International Cricket Council has reliable a argumentative preference to condense a 2015 as well as 2019 World Cups to only 10 teams, notwithstanding drawn out objections.
The universe ruling physique permitted a pierce during an senior manager house assembly in Mumbai, following Saturday’s stirring World Cup final when India carried a prize after a contest featuring fourteen teams.
“The senior manager house reliable their preference done in Oct 2010 which a ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Australia as well as New Zealand as well as a ICC Cricket World Cup in England in 2019 will be a 10-team event,” a media recover said.
The pierce comes notwithstanding await from distinguished total for “minnow” nations such as Ireland, Kenya, Canada as well as a Netherlands, all of whom took partial in a 2011 edition.
Ireland pulled off a single of a shocks of a just-concluded contest mutually hosted by India, Bangladesh as well as Sri Lanka when they came from at a back of to kick England by 3 wickets in a stirring organisation theatre clash.
“I unequivocally suffer saying a minnow teams removing an event to be honest,” Australia captain Michael Clarke pronounced upon Monday, echoing progressing comments by England spinner Graeme Swann.
“Why would we wish to take a universe out of a World Cup? Shocks can happen,” Swann told Wisden Cricket magazine.
Cricket Ireland set up a Facebook debate opposite a decision, which a body’s arch senior manager Warren Deutrom called “frankly outrageous”.
“I cannot consider of a preference which is reduction cognizant of a beliefs of competition as well as satisfactory fool around than a a single which has been taken today,” he said, in comments posted upon a Irish Times website.
“It positively flies in a face of all a justification which has been probable to accumulate over a final 4 years as regards Ireland?s performances, not only in a World Cup in 2007 though additionally in this World Cup as well as a inserted 4 years.”
The preference equates to a 2015 World Cup in Australia as well as New Zealand will be contested by full ICC members: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, England, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies as well as Zimbabwe.
The 2019 book in England will additionally embody 10 teams, though there will be a subordinate process.
The ultimate World Cup had been criticised for the length, after it spread out over 6 weeks from Feb nineteen to Apr 2.
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