What if World Series Cricket started today?
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By Jason Cave, 9 Mar 2010 The Crowd is a Roar Pro
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World Series Cricket was the biggest shake-up in the history of cricket, until the arrival of Twenty20.
Players such as Ian and Greg Chappell, Lillee, Greig, Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, played in WSC and most of those players regard WSC as the highest standard of cricket they have played in.
But what if WSC happened today?
There would be the Super Tests, the International Cup, the Country Cup and Twenty20 competitions in today’s version of WSC.
The three teams under WSC banner would be Australia, West Indies and the World – exactly the same teams that was in the original version – but using the current day players like Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, VVS Laxman, Chris Gayle and Kevin Pietersen.
Venues would be used in Australia and NZ. Australian venues would be: MCG (Melbourne), SCG (Sydney), Adelaide Oval (Adelaide), WACA Ground (Perth), Bellerive Oval (Hobart). The NZ venues would be at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
So, who would make into the Australian, West Indies & the World XI for the 21st century version of World Series Cricket? And how would the WSC games pan out?
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sheek said | March 9th 2010 @ 5:39am | Report comment
Well hell,
Kerry’s gone while Chappelli would be 67, Greigy 63 & the Big Cat 66!
Not to mention Lillee & Thomson would be 61 & 60, Roberts & Holding 59 & 55; Smoking Viv Richards 58, Barry Richards 65, Imran Khan 58 & his cousin Majid 64, & so on…..
They’re old men now….. ! Chuckle, chuckle…..
Fivehole said | March 9th 2010 @ 9:27am | Report comment
You’d have to ditch the West Indies and replace them with India for it to work in the current era
bever fever said | March 9th 2010 @ 5:51pm | Report comment
I bet you Kerry wishes it was.