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Ravi Shastri wants Champions Trophy to be scrapped
- Updated: April 3, 2017
Ravi Shastri
Stating that there were too many ICC events, former India all rounder Ravi Shastri felt there was no need to control a Champions Trophy, that is scheduled in England from Jun 1. “If we ask me, 5 years down a line there will be really small 50-over cricket. There are too many ICC tournaments. Which eventuality (sport) has so many World Champions,” wondered a former Indian group executive in Mumbai today.
Shastri, who spoke to reporters on a sidelines of a promotional eventuality of “Greycells Education”, in that he is a coach and advisor, felt that a quadrennial ICC World Cup gets diluted by a existence of a Champions Trophy. “I go and accommodate anyone on a travel and am asked ‘kitna World Cup hai yaar’ (how many World Cups are there), ‘World Champion hai kaun’ (who is a World Champion), that is a fact. You have both a Champions Trophy and a World Cup.
You are (thus) diluting a World Cup,” he said. “World Cup, T20, Test cricket (are fine). What do we need Champions Trophy for? What are we perplexing to prove? Who remembers (who won them in a past)? “If we ask me about a final 10-12 World Cups (winners), we will tell you, (but) we ask me (about) a final 3 Champions Trophy (winners) – we don’t know. The final one (in England in 2013) we will tell, since India won,” he explained.
To strut his point, Shastri pronounced people remember World Cup Champions and not who had won past Champions Trophy events. “I don’t have a idea and we have promote (commentated) in all of them. World Cup in 2011 and a (winning) 6 (which India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni struck in a final during a Wankhede Stadium opposite Sri Lanka). That we will (always) remember,” he forked out. Meanwhile, articulate about a Indian Premier League, Shastri said, “It is your initial category domestic tournament, India should have dual corridors for that, because one, if it’s (presently) 6 weeks, it can extend to 8 weeks. Like Ranji, Duleep Trophy, for a T20 format it is a IPL, we don’t need any other tournament.” “Eight franchises, 7 Indians play in any franchise, 56 Indians get a chance. Everyday, (seven Indians) rubbing shoulders with 4 abroad players. (Their) formidable disappears,” he added. Shastri pronounced that IPL is resolutely and precisely partial of domestic structure.