Cricket Australia Expresses Reservation About ICC's Future Tour Program

Cricket Australia (CA) has voiced their reservations about the ICC’s proposed one flagship tournament every year during the next eight-year FTP cycle (2023-2031). CA CEO Kevin Roberts echoed the same voice as BCCI saying that they are not ready to compromise on conducting bilateral Test series.

ICC  had agreed in principle to the chief executive Manu Sawhney’s idea of hosting eight men’s events in eight years when they met in Dubai earlier this year. This will have a direct impact on the bilateral series hosted by the nations and will incur heavy losses.

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Previously, BCCI CEO Rahul Johri has already expressed his concern over the same. And now, BCCI will find an ally in CA after their CEO Kevin Roberts said that this is something which needs urgent discussion among the stakeholders.

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“The ICC schedule of tournaments is certainly something that is absolutely up for discussion at the moment and will continue in the months ahead,” Roberts recently told SEN Radio.

“There’s a sense that fans really value World Cups and international events in general, and in this last cycle on the men’s side, I think we’ve had six world events in the eight years whereas the previous cycle, we had one event per year with the Champions Trophy as part of that,” he added.

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The next eight-year cycle will see four T20 World Cups being played, along with two 50-over World Cups. With another Champions Trophy like tournament included in between all of this, Kevin Roberts feels it might have an impact on the ICC Test Championship.

The ICC had recently concluded a long process of sorting out bilateral series between nations into Test and ODI leagues, with the Test Championship culminating in a final every two years – the first to come in 2021 – and the ODI league serving as the road to World Cup qualification.

“We need a healthy balance of World Cups along with international cricket that occurs between World Cups and the space for great domestic leagues like the BBL and the IPL to thrive into the future,” Roberts concluded.

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