“Or now not it is Fading Out…”: India Tale Warns ICC Of Grim Future For Take a look at Cricket

With T20 leagues expanding all around the arena, there appears to be a probable predominant shift within the fashion cricket competitions are going to be held in future. To add to the checklist of tournaments like the Indian Premier League, the Pakistan Colossal League and the Mountainous Bash League, now UAE and South Africa too are starting up their have T20 cricket leagues. With so many franchise leagues all around the arena, most of which hold generated good commercial interest, loads of consultants hold predicted that cricket could presumably well effectively be going the soccer manner where gamers purchase in membership competitions for most fragment of the year.

India’s 1983 World Cup-a success captain Kapil Dev thinks that the finance being generated by franchise T20 leagues needs to be utilised to conserve Take a look at cricket.

“I reflect it is fading out,” Dev told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. “The ICC has a better responsibility the technique to govern this game. Or now not it is going the fashion as soccer in Europe. They set up now not play in opposition to each and each nation. It’s a ways as soon as in four years (all around the World Cup). Is this what we will hold, the World Cup and the remainder of the time playing membership cricket?”

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Dev added that it is ICC’s responsibility to ‘be determined the survival’ of Tests and ODIs. “In a identical manner, will cricketers at final be playing primarily the IPL or the Mountainous Bash or one thing like that? So the ICC hold to put beyond regular time into that to look how they could presumably well also be determined the survival of one-day cricket, Take a look at match cricket, now not very best membership cricket,” he stated.

“Membership cricket is OK for some time. The Mountainous Bash is OK. But the South African league is coming, the UAE league is coming. If your whole worldwide locations are going to play the membership cricket, then worldwide cricket will doubtless be very best for the World Cup.”