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Daniel Brettig
October 11, 2011
A long-awaited ICC Test Championship is in severe danger of being delayed until at least 2017 because the ICC member nations are not prepared to accept a short-term financial hit to accommodate it.
The championship had been scheduled for 2013 in England, and Test teams around the world had begun plotting their best strategies for claiming a place in the top four that would play-off for the title. Instead, the ICC executive board has now admitted to considering the scheduling of another 50-over Champions Trophy, last played in 2009, because it would bring in more money.
The prospect of a significant reduction in the cost of disseminating the rights of several million dollars, would be on the table for a new edition of the Champions Trophy has led the ICC to be reluctant to replace it with a series of tests and now seems likely Champions Trophy to be awarded a new edition in 2013. The rights of all ICC events are with ESPN * STAR, had no comment.
"ICC Executive Committee has confirmed its preference to host the ICC Test Championship in 2013, but recognized as a significant commercial challenge to try to replace the Champions Trophy," the government said in a statement. "Without the support and consent of the ICC broadcast partner, ESPN Star Sports, the economic impact of the members and the development of the game would be significant."
Since the amount of the International Criminal Court has emphasized the context of test cricket in recent years, the possibility of reversal is difficult to predict. "It would be a shame if the league trial has been delayed until 2017, but the board needs to balance several objectives," Haroon Lorgat, the ICC president, said. "We have existing commitments in terms of our contract rights, which is the form of a day of the Champions Trophy and we need to change the format of the test.
"It 'was shot by fellow government and transmission of the challenge is to balance all its objectives, the key to the development of the game, and a source of income, you go to these events to develop the game, and is a decision that must be done. "
Lorgat also admitted that championship form in which India can not lose participants into account advice.
"And 'the depth you might think, but it certainly is a consideration," he said. "If one of the top teams so to speak, particularly in India, are the four best, it produces much more interest from the point of view of its trading partners."
The pressure for greater coherence in international cricket began with the players. Paul Marsh, executive director of the Australian Cricketers Association, said the ICC had to show he likes Test cricket and its potential value is beyond the scope of costs of an individual's rights.
"We were champions of the importance of context for a decade or more and now the International Criminal Court were recently defended well," said Marsh ESPNcricinfo. "This is not the time to abandon what we believe is best for the game, for the sake of short-term financial gain in an event like the Champions Trophy.
"I think the Court must weigh what they may be more value given to all Test cricket as the qualifiers for the Championship play-off test is not only the International Criminal Court, that all individual counseling back to my cricket test rose against the Champions Trophy at once. "
Marsh has also raised the prospect of the ICC faces a similar dilemma, although the event was again planned for 2017, while the economic value of Test cricket is not helped by the delay.
"If they do not do in 2013 and extend until 2017, what will change is that it is essentially the same question again, we have the Champions Trophy, which is more valuable for probing the championship playoffs? His Planning was the fall of the Champions Trophy and replace it with the proof of the championship playoffs.
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