The insecurity and short-sightedness of all staff caused the ODI Super League to be hacked

When South Africa kicks Netherlands In the first of the Centurion’s three Premier League matches on Friday, even though the league was about to be cancelled, people couldn’t help but watch with interest the only time in the history of the sport that the sport was all-inclusive and based on results. Qualifiers for the World Cup points table.

Proteas ranks ninth in the standings before pitching. They have already lost the game to Ireland and Sri Lanka. They worry that losing to the Dutch team may weaken their chances of playing in India two years later.

The South African rand is weak, and there has been a large brain drain in the past five years. But they received an eight-year guarantee amount of US$132 million from the ICC pool copyright, and there are a large number of bilateral tours that can be sold to broadcasters. Although they are all in decline, you hope they have enough resources to stop the low-level players of cricket and participate in the next World Cup.

However, no matter how slim, their “chance” to miss the World Cup (at least automatically qualifying) for the first time since 1992 may be enough to make them feel fear and insecurity in the setting. This insecurity is not new, it has been popular for a long time and has hindered cricket. Disastrously reflected in a round of ICC meetings held this month, a group of selfish people, mainly from the highest level of official member representatives, have a poor understanding of world games and short-sighted views on world games, and decided to rank based on 2027. The World Cup qualifiers for the World Cup are more suitable. Their purpose and motivation, of course. Not the low-ranking tester, nor the 94 employees that the sport rarely cares about.

The fallacy is obvious, isn’t it? Without the Premier League, the chances of South Africa touring Ireland and hosting 3 ODI games in the Netherlands are as high as the chances of BCCI finding a way to arrange a series where India will compete with Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. For now, this is trivial.

BCCI recently added four games to their South Africa tour (three ODIs and an additional T20I)-the idea was clearly to strengthen the relationship with CSA and influence board politics-they were not even part of FTP at the time , And there is no relationship with the Super League. Then, after a quarantine issue would postpone India’s trip to New Zealand to participate in the scheduled Super League series in March next year, the Indian board arranged for additional T20Is in their home games against the West Indies and Sri Lanka instead of showing any effort. Find a window for the match between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan.

This is what we call the attitude. These top boards don’t know or care about the importance of the Super League to the low-level teams of cricket. You now want to know how it was originally established despite so many powerful forces opposing anything. This is to make the game bigger. Interests rather than their own interests.

Apart from their meaningless existence, the thing about rankings is that they are easy to play with and are biased towards you. The Super League broke this model. It made the game between the two World Cups important. In addition to letting the lower-ranked test country compete with the top official members, it also gave employees a dream opportunity.

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The dream of the Super League partners is shattered

The Premier League gives the Netherlands the opportunity to play 24 games with official members outside the World Cup or global qualifiers. Before the founding of the league, it has been nearly 25 years since their ODI debut in 1996. They only played 26 games with the traditional top 10 test members, and almost no one has participated in major ICC events. Only one of South Africa’s previous 4 ODI matches against the Netherlands was not part of the ICC event. If it were not for the Super League, they would not play them in the fifth game.

The rise of the Dutch team in the league gave other leading colleagues a chance to believe. If the Premier League is carried out and expanded in the next cycle, even at a conservative rate, it will include teams such as Scotland, Namibia and Oman, and ensure that these teams have frequent matches with top teams in the World Cup. Members who have a place get more background and encouragement.

“This is definitely a wish. From the perspective of prospective members, you are looking for the stability and reliability of cricket and funding. Therefore, having a complete ODI cricket cycle of three or four years is huge,” Gerhard Erasmus, the captain of Namibia, told Cricbuzz.

If the Super League does not expand and continue to exist, then teams like Scotland may replace Zimbabwe in the next cycle and have the opportunity to strengthen their requirements for testing status and more regular white ball games.

The top teams from League 2 are part of the global structure announced by the ICC, consisting of Namibia, Nepal, Oman, Scotland, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Papua New Guinea, if their performance exceeds the 13th place in the World Cup global qualifiers. This undoubtedly brought hope to Scotland captain Kyle Kuser, but now everything has disappeared.

“It looks like we have been pushed into a box where we can only compete with each other in qualifying. This seems to be a step backwards from a mature structure. Outside of the big tournaments, the league regularly gets those big games or has a chance to win. They also put pressure on official members who rank lower,” He said.

“With promotion and relegation, think about what would happen if there is an official member of League 2 participating in the game? I am glad to think that we can continue to attract official members to play here, and you heard these promises that they will seek to fight the league more, but Is there anything that can be compared with the game brought by the Super League? That won’t happen.”

The latter part of Coetzer’s emphasis on Cricbuzz is also important here. It is not that the CEOs from Ireland, Zimbabwe, or Afghanistan do not participate in the ICC CEC. It is recommended that the Premier League be cancelled on the ICC board of directors, most of which are full members. It’s just that they don’t feel safe enough to vote for such a move, otherwise they may be relegated to a lower level of cricket. Why would they, even the West Indies, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, open up such a possibility? They have already received some unfavorable treatment from the upper-class countries in terms of funds and schedules. Why do they want to open up a path that will only make their survival more difficult and uncertain?

So the whole system is broken. It is not enough to just bring the World Cup games to your target market, because you see the economic benefits, and to promote the Olympic Games is not enough. It is repairing the decayed structure of bilateral cricket, opening up routes for more countries to test, ODI and T20I between these world events, which will make cricket a global sport.

Canceling the Super League, it could have been the carrier of cricket globalization, more important than anything else. This is a daytime robbery, a blow to the proletarians of cricket, and they may not be able to recover from it. It has the potential to bring cricket back to the dark ages, where they can only play on their own and beg for occasional games against the top.