ICC should force its member to select full strength team

[BallOil]

I would think they don't want to promote water dung cricket. International cricket should be priority over everything else. If they want to play water dung cricket, then setup a two tier system let them play around.

[BallOil]

Why should Australia, India , Sri Lanka, South Africa and England, play a second string WI team? Tis is not cricket anymore... Fans want to see competitive cricket with the best teams playing. Why are the Indian players resting for the England series when they have a series going on now? The are not interested in playing minnows, thus the need for two tier. If India felt that they would lose the series they would send a better team.

[BallOil]

BCCI made a good decision lately filtering out weak teams ahead of the champions league. Now Trinidad and Tobago and a couple other teams will with play a qualifier before the CLT20.

Now the ICC has to make some bold decisions ....

[twisted]

to me a team is a team whether or not its there best, they are representing there country. it also give exposure to the other players

[BallOil]

to me a team is a team whether or not its there best, they are representing there country. it also give exposure to the other players

Welcome aboard Twisted

This is professional cricket at its best. It is not a place for experiments. You give players exposure and experiment in club and regional cricket. All ICC matches should be taken seriously or the whole thing will be joke.

[howzdat]

When I opened this thread expected to see feedback on whether the ICC should 'force' members to select 'full strength' teams and so the poll question on whether the ICC should implement a two tier league to raise the standards confuses me somewhat.

Anyway, wouldn't any involvement by the ICC in national team selcection be a wholly unwelcome interference? And isn't 'full strength' a rather subjective assessment most of the time?

I will hold of voting on the poll till i start to understand exactly what the topic originator had in mind when the topic was raised. In the meantime i look forward to reading the spirited contributions from other forum members.

[howzdat]

Why should Australia, India , Sri Lanka, South Africa and England, play a second string WI team? Tis is not cricket anymore...

Isn't 'glorious uncertainty' one of the primary drawcards of sport? Yes, it is true that on paper a strong team ought to defeat a weaker team but every once in a long while the form book is overturned and a shock result is produced. Don't we all get a thrill when we witness such upsets?

Think back to the world cup, did we not all feel that sense of incredulity turn into something gut-wrenchingly savage and triumphant as Ireland marched at first slowly but then inexorably towards the England total? I did and for sure i recognised that those feelings were what sport is also all about to the passionate sporting fan. The glorious taste of victory made all the sweeter when it is achieved against all the odds.

Why deny the sporting minnows and underdogs a chance at attaining those improbable victories that become part of their folklore and inspire future generations to strive to emulate past glories?

May we not forget that when WI were beating the pants of all of these teams no-one called for different tiers of test cricket! In fact they created artificial rules in an attempt to hamstring our bowlers!

I think that our frustration as cricket loving supporters of the WI is the apparent inability of our administrators and collective unit of players to learn from all these years of poor performances.

[twisted]

to me a team is a team whether or not its there best, they are representing there country. it also give exposure to the other players

Welcome aboard Twisted

This is professional cricket at its best. It is not a place for experiments. You give players exposure and experiment in club and regional cricket. All ICC matches should be taken seriously or the whole thing will be joke.

what is a joke is a team not bringing there full squad and beating another team at there best.

[BallOil]

to me a team is a team whether or not its there best, they are representing there country. it also give exposure to the other players

Welcome aboard Twisted

This is professional cricket at its best. It is not a place for experiments. You give players exposure and experiment in club and regional cricket. All ICC matches should be taken seriously or the whole thing will be joke.

what is a joke is a team not bringing there full squad and beating another team at there best.

The two tier system will fix that by filter out the weaklings