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Why Has Cricket Allowed Itself To Be Outstripped In Global Growth?
Published: February 26, 2010
Idly watching the Olympics last month, and I realized that football is not the only team sport more popular than cricket. Basketball and Volleyball, for example, are played in more than 200 countries each, despite requiring more infrastructure than cricket? Why has the ICC sat on it’s rump and kept the old boy’s club of Commonwealth countries playing series over and over and over again? Would England versus New Zealand nineteen times in a row be acceptable in any other sport?
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?b??™ on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 3:17 pm
you have to realise a big difference in cricket and the other sports you mentioned is the duration of sport . Other sports last for max 90 minutes however the shortest version of cricket was an ODI match till the time T-20 was introduced. Duration of the game is one big factor which has affected this !
vp on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 9:46 pm
You are right. Its time for ICC to overhaul itself. Time to get people in ICC who can help make such an interesting game popular gloablly and move out retired cricketers whose emotional attachment for test cricket is harming th game.
They can do many thing such as:
Use more technology
Make the spectator friendly formats like T20 more frequent
Decrease the number of bilateral series ans increase chamionships
Improve the quality of umpiring by introducing medical fitness tests suchas ability to see and hear ( kick umpires like Bucknor out)
Gazza on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 11:26 pm
other sports have more money and are backed by the olympics
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