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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided that they would narrow down the show piece Cricket World Cup event to just 10 nations for the next event in 2019 in England.

This decision has been met with great resistance and there is a petition that has close to 20,000 signatures on it, which is calling on the ICC to rethink this move.

There are 14 nations at the current event and this means that six will be missing out come next World Cup. The regular ICC full members West Indies, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, will be the ones battling for supremacy.

At the current World Cup, the minnows and this time Ireland, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Afghanistan and Scotland all created great excitement during their matches. Ireland took it further and defeated two Test playing full member nations in West Indies and Zimbabwe. They narrowly missed out on qualifying for the quarter-finals and this from a team that played just nine ODIs (One Day International) in between the 2011 and current World Cup.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Not really. Scotland are UAE were the 5th and 6th placed amongst the minnows, They did not add any value to the tournament.

Afghanistan and Ireland did sure. Comparing football and cricket is non-sense. There it is only 90 minutes here it is seven hours.

The best format is have the top 6 qualify automatically and the rest 4 play with associate top 4 and six teams qualify. If associates are really that good they would upset one of Zim, Bang, WI Eng to qualify for the tournament.

IMO, If you finish last and last but one, you don't deserve to be going to the World cup.

Of course, we know this won't happen because England are involved.

12 teams with 2 groups of 6 each - 30 matches.

Super eights with 4 teams qualifying - 16 matches

2 semis and 1 finals.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

My math is failing me???

This tournament is long, but it's not because there are too many teams.

If it's about quality teams, there were only 4 sides (Sri Lanka *maybe* makes 5) that were realistically with a chance of winning the competition, so the argument about competitive/quality contests is weak.

Sometimes you get mismatches, that's the nature of sport. But it's no reason to contract your signature global competition. Rugby gets it. And of course, they're not blinded by Indian TV/sponsorship monies either.

In reply to Tryangle

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That's it right there.

They need to rename it the Test Countries World Cup and not ' The World Cup'.
They can easily make it 12 teams,at least.

Yeah....look at de Kiwis in the final

In reply to hubert

Funny thing is they already have the Champions Trophy for the Full Members to enjoy each other's company

In reply to Tryangle

Forget about that. But didn't they scrap it as well as the Test Championship ?
Hard to keep up with ICC foolishness nowadays