{"id":10009,"date":"2022-08-16T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T14:45:19","slug":"icc-must-protect-test-odi-formats-amid-rise-of-t20-leagues-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-must-protect-test-odi-formats-amid-rise-of-t20-leagues-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC must protect Test &#038; ODI formats amid rise of T20 leagues: Dev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ICC must protect Test &amp; ODI formats amid rise of T20 leagues: Dev. Former India captain Kapil Dev has called on cricket s governing body (ICC) to take steps to protect the test and one-day international formats amid the global growth of lucrative domestic Twenty20 competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The proliferation of T20 leagues has further strained cricket s already-bloated calendar, with new competitions in the United Arab Emirates and South Africa set to begin early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The trailblazing Indian Premier League is set to be given an extended window in the ICC s next international calendar while England and Australia are also likely to get dedicated slots for their domestic franchise-based leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The cramped schedule has prompted some players to quit formats, with England s Ben Stokes quitting ODIs last month, while South Africa have dropped an ODI tour of Australia in January as it clashed with the launch of their T20 league.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/homepage\">ICC<\/a> has put the onus on member boards to find a balance between domestic and bilateral cricket to better manage the workload of players but Dev said it has a &#8220;bigger responsibility&#8221; to manage the sport.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read\u00a0 more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-rankings-babar-azam-retains-top-spot.html\">ICC rankings: Babar Azam retains top spot<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It s going the way as football in Europe,&#8221; Dev told the Sydney Morning Herald. &#8220;They don t play against each country. It is once in four years (during the World Cup).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this what we re going to have, the World Cup and the rest of the time playing club (T20 franchise) cricket? In a similar way, will cricketers eventually be playing mainly the IPL or the Big Bash or something like that?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ICC have to put more time into that to see how they can ensure the survival of one-day cricket, test match cricket, not only club cricket,&#8221; added Dev, who lifted the World Cup as India skipper in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC must protect Test &amp; ODI formats amid rise of T20 leagues: Dev. Former India captain Kapil Dev has called on cricket s governing body (ICC) to take steps to protect the test and one-day international formats amid the global growth of lucrative domestic Twenty20 competitions. The proliferation of T20 leagues has further strained cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[2448,301,139,364],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-world-cup","tag-icc","tag-india","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}