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and obviously, the number of teams playing cricket right now is going to increase and that is exactly what the big 4 fear
FYI there are 94 Associate Members and 12 Full Members under ICC, which means 106 countries are playing cricket. Unless the quality of Cricket increases they wont be getting a full membership.
when i said that there are not too many teams playing cricket right now i meant not many teams playing cricket right now regularly, tell me when did you last see a cricket match between an associate team? let alone watch the whole match
if anyone is actually watching the whole match which is being played by two associate teams, i think they should get a life, i bet that the citizens of many associate countries don’t even know that they have a cricket team, lol
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cricket was first played in the Olympics in the year 1900 if i am not wrong, cricket is not part of the Olympics since the ICC has never submitted an application to the Olympics committee to include cricket
a big part of that is the big four, they do not want to lose their authority, they know very well that if cricket is included in the Olympics there will be a lot more teams playing cricket, it is very easy for them to lose their authority at that time
This is another lie, Olympic committee was not ready to accept Cricket because the length of the matches and the other hassles of organizing the matches during the Olympics was the reason why Cricket was not included in Olympics after 1900. If you really think that the associate countries can create the revenue, why not now and waiting for them to be included in the Olympics
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there is a lot of shorter cricket being played right now, including the t-ten format, yes i know it’s still going to be a pretty time-consuming match, but it’s a lot better than having a five-day match with no results, i don’t think the Olympics committee should have any problems arranging t20 matches