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ICC unveils 9-nation exam championship to safety Test cricket format
- Updated: October 15, 2017
The International Cricket Council denounced a long-awaited, nine-nation Test championship yesterday in a bid to safety a five-day format’s standing following a fast expansion of Twenty20. The Test joining was among a raft of reforms concluded during an ICC house assembly in Auckland, including revamping a one-day general report and trialling four-day Tests.
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“Our priority was to rise a structure that gave context and definition opposite general cricket and quite in a Test arena,” ICC arch David Richardson said. The Test joining will start in 2019 and see 9 teams play 6 array over dual years — 3 home and 3 away. It will cap in a final between a dual tip teams during Lord’s.
The ICC has argued for years that a Test championship is indispensable to boost a format’s recognition as crowds and TV viewers group to a fast-paced, big-hitting Twenty20 chronicle of a game. It initial allocated a cabinet to inspect a judgment in 1998, though squabbling over formats, and fears that some nations will be disadvantaged, have stymied efforts to launch a joining structure.