“The lesser teams, in each and every World Cup, they always surprise top teams”
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Legendary India batsman Sachin Tendulkar believes that the World Cup should be expanded to accommodate 25 teams.
“It wouldn’t be a World Cup if you just keep reducing teams down to the top few teams that are ranked”
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Ireland captain William Porterfield has become the latest cricketer to slam the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to reduce the number of teams from fourteen to ten in the 2019 World Cup.
“Sports need competition and opportunities for every one.”
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United Arab Emirates head coach Aaqib Javed has slammed the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to decrease the number of teams that will participate in the 2019 World Cup from fourteen to ten.
De Zoysa (pictured) described de Silva as “a very relaxed person full of fun and jokes”
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Bandula de Silva, a former secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL), as it was known back in the day, passed away in Colombo on Tuesday.
“We’d make sure that Ireland and Afghanistan are playing in the region of eight to ten ODIs per year”
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has admitted that it will be “difficult to guarantee matches” for Ireland and Afghanistan.
“I am not going to be shy about really pushing for some matches”
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Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom has announced that Ireland and Afghanistan have to be able to play series against Full Member nations in order to gain some credibility.
“Afghanistan’s cricket board does not support cricket for women, even though I have 3,700 girl cricketers across Afghanistan”
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Just four years after it was formed, the Afghanistan women’s cricket team has been dissolved due to Taliban threats, insecurity and conservative beliefs.
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“We want to make it abundantly clear: The WICB has not relinquished any powers as a Full Member of the ICC”
West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Whycliffe Cameron has announced that the country will benefit from the International Cricket Council (ICC) revamp.
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The two-tier Test system will give teams like Afghanistan the chance to play against Full Member nations
With the World Test Championship set to be scrapped after a lack of support from both sponsors and broadcasters, the International Cricket Council (ICC) are interested in introducing a two-tier Test cricket system.
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Afghanistan will play an unconfirmed number of Twenty20 Internationals and one ODI against Zimbabwe
Afghanistan are set to play their first series against a Full Member nation after Zimbabwe announced they will host them for an unconfirmed number of Twenty20 Internationals and one ODI starting on January 28, 2014.
