Re: Cricket
Cricket and Rugby both suffer from the same problem :
Lack of Internationally capable teams.
Australia, India, England, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Zimbabwe
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, England, Italy, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Fiji, Argentina
The complete lack of depth in both sports has various reprecussions :
Test series' get stale
Tour dates and fixture lists are carbon copy
Some nations in both sports are ridiculously incompetent and perennial whipping boys
The World Cup's of both sports essentially dont mean very much (in my eyes) because youve practically played everyone in the past year anyway. Contrast this to football, when we havent seen England - Brazil since the last world cup, or England - Italy since 1997 ( i think).
So, having lots of 20/20 games and ODI's is the only way to sustain a sport where theres desire from fans to see lots of International cricket, but there really isnt a world market to do it in.
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