The rarely debated preference of International Cricket Council to shear down a series of World Cup participants to 10 full members in 2015 got a subsidy of Australian captain Ricky Ponting who pronounced a contest belonged to a chosen members.
“I have regularly been uncertain if a World Cup as well as Champions Trophy have been a right place for tiny nations. And we am not certain how most these teams essentially sense when they have been beaten in contests,” Ponting pronounced here forward of his team’s World Cup lung opener opposite Zimbabwe during Motera Stadium.
Ponting felt which a World Cup should be a contest for fewer teams as well as creation efforts to rise a diversion worldwide should not indispensably meant which not as big nations be authorised to take partial in a flagship event.
“You need to move upon a little of these tiny nations in to a universe of cricket. We wish to a see a diversion rise as well as freshness around a world,” pronounced a 36-year-old twice World Cup-winning captain who is to underline in his fifth World Cup after creation his entrance in 1996.
“At a finish of a day it would substantially be a improved contest if they were fewer teams (in a World Cup). It’s a apex of a sport. We assimilate a shortcoming to keep a diversion growing,” Ponting, who is staid to have a jot down 40th World Cup appearance, said.
The 2011 World Cup has fourteen teams, together with join forces with members Kenya, Canada, Ireland as well as The Netherlands.
In 2015 edition, to be hold in Australia as well as New Zealand, there would be usually 10 teams, as per a preference taken by a universe ruling physique for a game.
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