Day-night Test cricket is coming. In November Australia will play New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval in front of 60,000 people.
Although there are reservations about this new phase of Test cricket it is the facelift that Test cricket had to have. Although players are not keen to play with the pink Kookaburra these reservations are falling on deaf ears. The national boards will apply the ‘next man up’ philosophy and pick someone who does want to play.
I see this revolution of Test cricket resulting in more than dollar signs and massive TV audiences, I see the very real possibility of a Test World Championship.
There are many questions to raise about such a concept and I will run through my blueprint below.
How long will it run for?
I feel that it would run for the same time as a One-Day World Cup.
How many teams?
The top four teams in the world rankings qualify automatically with the rest playing for the remaining four spots at the World Cup.
So South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India would be automatic qualifiers.
Then England, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies, Zimbabwe as well as two associates (Ireland, Afghanistan) would head into a qualifying tournament.
This will leave two groups of four consisting of two automatic qualifiers and two non-automatic qualifiers with each team playing each other once.
The groups could look something like the following.
Group A: Australia, India, Pakistan, West Indies
Group B: South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland
Now how does day-night Test cricket have to do with this? Well, it would genuinely make this easier to run.
For example if a game between Australia and India was starting at 10am they could play the Pakistan-West Indies game starting at 2:30pm to help accommodate the TV audience.
The top two then qualify for the semi-finals and then the final.
What do you think, Roarers, could we see a Test World Cup in the future?
Build your own fantasy cricket team and put it to the test with Draftstars daily fantasy competitions. Pick your match, pick your team and watch the points roll in to take out cash prizes on each match. What are you really gambling with? Set a deposit limit.
With Rajasthan needing 25 off 17, both batsmen ended up at the same end but the bowler dropped the throw from his teammate -…
A six-laden, 27-ball 84 from Jake Fraser-McGurk to continue his outrageous debut IPL!
Johnny Bairstow has hit his way back into form with a 45-ball century as he steered his side to a record-breaking win, easily chasing…
It seems franchise cricket has forgotten about the great battle between bat and ball. In fact, this season in the IPL there is no battle at all.
The mammoth rise of Jake Fraser-McGurk - his enormous potential and the destructive shot-making that he possesses makes him a very tempting option.
Xavier Bartlett has been permission to extend his cricketing education with a spell of T20s in England, playing in the Blast competition for Kent…
