What are the thoughts on a multi-tiered cricket system that would effectively pit teams of roughly equal strength against one another?
I know there have been quite a lot of thoughts put forward on addressing the divide between the strong and the weak sides. The problem is that if "weak" sides end up playing against strong sides the game loses its appeal for both both spectators and ultimately TV audiences.
The second problem is that if you have a two-tiered system the teams that get stuck in the lower pool may find their standard of cricket going down... Mediocrity breeds mediocrity...
The next tricky part is how would you split the sides up. If you look at ODI cricket you would have a different top 5 compared to the top 5 in Test cricket.
Of course the other option is to go down the international franchise route and make the IPL more of a mainstream competition replacing the international tours.... It would be a good way to revitalise international cricket but I wonder whether world cricket is ready for more mainstreaming of the franchise offering.
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You should probably have some mechanism whereby the team that tops the bottom 5 is promoted for 1-2 years into the top 5. If some team in the top 5 is doing bad, they are demoted until they can improve their performance.
Hi Krish...
Yeah I would assume that would be how it works but the problem is that once a side gets into the lower league they end up being forced to compete against weaker opposition and their standard doesn't improve.
Tough one...
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