Australian skipper Ricky Ponting pronounced Sunday which a World Cup would be a improved eventuality if a not as big nations were released though concurred a need to grow a diversion around a world.
The subsequent World Cup in 2015 will underline only 10 teams, down from a stream 14, definition it will roughly positively be a safety of a Test sides as well as a minnows of a universe diversion will be muscled out.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has not nonetheless suggested a gift routine though a skeleton have murderous a join forces with nations, represented during a ongoing World Cup by Canada, Ireland, Kenya as well as a Netherlands.
“We assimilate a shortcoming to keep a diversion growing. For that, you need to move upon a little of these tiny nations in to a universe of cricket. We wish to see a diversion rise as well as freshness around a world,” Ponting said.
“I have regularly been uncertain if a World Cups as well as a Champions Trophy have been a right place to do that. And you am not certain as to how most a teams essentially sense when they get knocked about in these contests.
“At a finish of a day, it would substantially be a improved contest if there were fewer teams. The World Cup is a apex of a sport,” Ponting added.
The Australian skipper’s comments came upon a day which New Zealand dejected Kenya in an embarrassingly biased mismatch, with Canada additionally hopelessly out of their abyss opposite corner hosts Sri Lanka.
Kenya were knocked about by 10 wickets after being discharged for only 69 — their lowest ever World Cup sum as well as a fifth misfortune in contest history.
In a day-night compare in between Sri Lanka as well as Canada, a home side plundered 332-7 off a Canadian attack.
Devastated Kenya skipper Jimmy Kamande was left struggling for answers after his team’s mauling in Chennai.
“The unsatisfactory thing is you get to fool around a Test group once around each dual years or so. The some-more you fool around opposite these guys, a improved you become.”
At a same time as shortening a World Cup, a ICC is augmenting a series of teams which fool around in a World Twenty20 to sixteen from a stream 12.
“We have felt in a past couple of years which Twenty20 is a most appropriate format to rise a diversion worldwide as well as it provides a improved sourroundings for competition,” ICC arch senior manager Haroon Lorgat pronounced upon Friday.
“The 50-over format is some-more skill-based as well as befitting for a tip teams.”
Cricket Kenya arch senior manager Tom Sears pronounced upon Thursday a ICC will not be behaving in a interests of a diversion if a not as big teams were sealed out of a subsequent World Cup.
“If you have to urge upon a standards, there is no indicate of denying us a event of competing during a tip level,” Sears told AFP.
In an talk with a Wisden Cricketer magazine, Sears termed a preference as “scandalous as well as full of blood ridiculous”.
“I’ve no enterprise to be diplomatic…. Not to let any one else in is scandalous. It’s all about money, energy as well as votes – as well as that’s not great for cricket,” he said.
Canadian manager Pubudu Dassanayake additionally branded a ICC devise a reversal for teenager nations.
Kenya became a initial non-Test personification group to strech a World Cup semi-finals in 2003, as well as Ireland constructed their greatest dissapoint over Pakistan in a 2007 contest in a West Indies.
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