After Australian cricketer Pat Cummins, former West Indies CEO Johnny Grave, former England cricketer Michael Vaughan turns into the newest to advocate the thought of getting a window for Take a look at matches. With franchise cricket consuming away a piece of the cricketing calendar the Take a look at excursions have grow to be smaller when it comes to the variety of matches performed and preparation time for the touring groups forward of the sequence.
“I might guide three one-month home windows into the schedule, the place there’s no franchise cricket, so Take a look at cricket is the one present on the town. Hopefully, that will persuade a number of gamers to maintain enjoying Take a look at cricket fairly than simply sticking to franchise stuff year-round. In these home windows, I’d have all of the groups enjoying on the similar time. Probably, in the direction of the top of a cycle, that might imply everybody enjoying concurrently in the identical nation, or on the identical continent,” wrote Vaughan in his Telegraph column.
“Franchise cricket for some nations is extra profitable, extra interesting than worldwide cricket. If I went and performed franchise cricket, I may most likely be away for a half or a 3rd of the quantity we’re for Australia,” Cummins mentioned on the MCC World Cricket Connects 2024 at Lord’s earlier this 12 months.
“In Australia, Take a look at cricket is from November to January, and mainly, no different cricket goes to get in the way in which of us enjoying Take a look at cricket then. If we will have particular home windows for IPL, however then additionally Take a look at home windows, that makes the decision-making for the gamers loads simpler,” Cummins added.
“I help the idea of discovering Take a look at match home windows, the place there are intervals within the 12 months when solely Take a look at cricket is performed and we now have a lot of sequence occurring in numerous occasions,” Grave echoed comparable sentiments talking to this publication earlier. “It is perhaps a check match beginning in Sydney or Wellington, then Kolkata or Dhaka adopted by one beginning at Lord’s or Newlands after which one beginning at Kennington Oval so eight Take a look at groups, 4 Take a look at matches filling up nearly all the 24-hour clock,” Grave added.