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Cricket (None Leicestershire County Cricket Club)

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I think it’s time for a two tier test championship.

 

Tier one: England, India, Australia, one other.

 

Tier two: everyone else.

 

England, India and Australia exempt from relegation with the fourth team eg New Zealand playing the top team in tier two to see who plays in tier one every two years. Time to give the power to where the best teams are rather than wasting our time playing alsorans like West Indies and Sri Lanka who give us nothing when it comes to playing Australia or India. 

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Tommy Fresh

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1 hour ago, Lionator said:

I think it’s time for a two tier test championship.

 

Tier one: England, India, Australia, one other.

 

Tier two: everyone else.

 

England, India and Australia exempt from relegation with the fourth team eg New Zealand playing the top team in tier two to see who plays in tier one every two years. Time to give the power to where the best teams are rather than wasting our time playing alsorans like West Indies and Sri Lanka who give us nothing when it comes to playing Australia or India. 

You mean the West Indian side that went and drew in Australia? Sri Lanka that drew with Australia when Australia toured there last. 

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26 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

You mean the West Indian side that went and drew in Australia? Sri Lanka that drew with Australia when Australia toured there last. 

Exactly. That was a really good competitive test, not sure why people keep suggesting the West indies aren't competing. They clearly are and creating more hierarchy wouldn't help that.

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3 hours ago, Lionator said:

I think it’s time for a two tier test championship.

 

Tier one: England, India, Australia, one other.

 

Tier two: everyone else.

 

England, India and Australia exempt from relegation with the fourth team eg New Zealand playing the top team in tier two to see who plays in tier one every two years. Time to give the power to where the best teams are rather than wasting our time playing alsorans like West Indies and Sri Lanka who give us nothing when it comes to playing Australia or India. 

Even that top three has one-sided home series. We also haven't won in the Carribean for 20 years.

 

Seeing us lose 4-1 in India and 4-0 in Australia again? No thanks. We got slaughtered in the same way these also rans do.

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Posting not just because the highlights are pretty well put together but the comment section is (remarkably rarely for Youtube) a great read. There are so many people in a lot of places who respect Test cricket in England and want to see it continue, which is heartening given the ascendancy of shorter forms of the game.

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13 hours ago, Tommy Fresh said:

You mean the West Indian side that went and drew in Australia? Sri Lanka that drew with Australia when Australia toured there last. 

It doesn’t mean that it’s good for the game though. If test cricket is going to continue then the way forward is just India, Australia and England, because the rest do not contribute enough financially to make it viable in the long run. It is a complete waste and we should be playing better teams. 

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12 hours ago, Corky said:

Even that top three has one-sided home series. We also haven't won in the Carribean for 20 years.

 

Seeing us lose 4-1 in India and 4-0 in Australia again? No thanks. We got slaughtered in the same way these also rans do.

We’re only going to get better by playing them more often, rather than playing series against West Indies and Sri Lanka at home and winning 3-0 each time. We learn nothing from that

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We’re only going to get better by playing them more often, rather than playing series against West Indies and Sri Lanka at home and winning 3-0 each time. We learn nothing from that

You've just been given an example of this West Indian side not losing a series in Australia so not sure what you're actually even getting at now

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2 minutes ago, Lionator said:

It doesn’t mean that it’s good for the game though. If test cricket is going to continue then the way forward is just India, Australia and England, because the rest do not contribute enough financially to make it viable in the long run. It is a complete waste and we should be playing better teams. 

Would you be saying the same if the ECB started cutting county numbers and kicked Leicestershire out? Because it doesn't improve the big boys to play Leicestershire.

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No one significant will invest. You aren't getting a return any time soon. A waste of time continuing to believe this rubbish will do anything other than drain money.

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10 hours ago, Father Ted said:

Just looked at the scorecard. An embarrassing start, which is great to see. Long may it continue.

Agree its shocking at least with the BBC coverage we get Alex Hartley bundle of energy  and very easy on the eye

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