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Improvement of CricketNicholas Alphonso A Popularise cricket! 1. Restructure Current test teams. For Cricket to improve first the quality of the current test teams should be improved. Teams like England and West Indies need to be more competitive. Here are some suggestions:
2. Restructuring Current ODI Teams. It is disheartening for the current ODI status teams to play only during world cups. Such an unfair policy would never see new teams improve. Teams such as Canada, UAE, Scotland, Namibia & Holland should be given permanent ODI status and official tournaments should be played amongst themselves and the 3 bottom ranked test teams. An age limit of 35 yrs should be imposed to encourage youngsters. Kenya should be given Test Status. 3. League Format All teams Test and ODI should be ranked in groups of 5. The top 5 will be grp A. Next 5 B and so on. Teams in a particular group are allowed to play with teams in their own group as well as adjacent groups only. eg. Group A cannot play group C teams. [Except Tests & World Cups] Every year, the groups are restructured. 4. Improve quality of Upcoming teams To ensure that debutants in ODI competitions have an international exposure to cricket before their debut, international tournaments should be held. Heres what should be done.
5. Introduction of cutting-edge technology I feel that technology should be introduced to cricket. This is what cricket needs.
6. The ICC. Here are some reccomendations to the ICC
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7. Taking on the Globe. To encourage more countries to take up cricket, cricket must be marketed well. Teams like Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore have a good program and must be encouraged to obtain ODI status. For cricket to succeed regional sporting giants should be given top priority. These countries are regional giants and act like a catalyst to spread the sport to neighbouring countries. The countries are: China, USA, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Nigeria Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morrocco, Sweden, Fiji, Argentina and Brazil. Have a brand ambassador for cricket. People who know about the sport and are internationally famous should be selected. Names such as Russel Crowe, Shaggy, Christian Vieri footballer ITALY make good ambassadors. Cricket should be introduced equally to all races and women should also be encouraged to take up the sport. Marketing Blitz If I were the president of the ICC, this is what I would do to promote the sport in a country.
B Rules that have to be changed: 1 Elimination of the Leg-bye rule. The Lb rule is pretty unfair to the bowler. By elimination such a rule would allow the batsman to play at the ball, instead of getting runs of the deflection of his clothing. 2 Direct Hit on the stump renders the ball dead. At present if a fielder hits the stumps directly when the batsman is taking a run & he is safe, if it deflects of it, the batsman can run overthrows extra runs. By enabling the ball dead it would encourage the fielders to hit the stumps more often. If the batsman ran after this, the extra runs would be overruled. 3 Leg-side LBW decision At present, if the ball is pitched outside the leg-stump, but is a clear LBW decision, the batsman is not out. Due to advances in technology today, we can predict an LBW. Hence LBW decisions should be simplified by this method, if the trajectory appears to hit the stump the Batsman is OUT. 4 Correct Nomenclature Terms such as leg-spin and off-spin are outdated. Better terms would be wrist spin and finger spin. C Accredation to stadiums The ICC must start rating stadiums. The better the rating of the stadium more matches it is allowed to hold. Here are my parameters. Points are shown alongside in y/n format. Lights 40/5 Capacity in 1000s Pitch invasion history 0/20 Smooth Entry/Exit 30/5 Crowd Management history good/bad 30/5 Match history 1st & 2nd inn win ratio 40-60 range 50/10 Grassy field 10/5 Facilities practice, media, parking, toilets, food 35/10 Replay screen 20/0 Electronic Scoreboard 15/5 Sightscreen moving needed 0/10 PITCH: Bounce good/low 30/10 Support for bowlers 20/5 Ave. Runs in the range 240-280 50 200,>280 20 <200 5 Pitch plays true till the end 60/20 Divide the stadium pts by 4 to get the percentage. 90+=A, 80-90=B and so on. Pitch points should be above 70 for AA accred.
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