The international scheduling is baffling anyway. Tours covering both red and white ball games would help for a start.
And why are the series so unevenly spread? It's only 2 years since our last Test series in Pakistan, and 1 year since our last white ball series in the Carribbean.
The ECB cancelled a tour of Pakistan much to their annoyance and there is a need for the likes of West Indies, for them to survive and from a financial perspective, for us to go there if only for the fact that we supply most of the crowd! As for elongating tours as we used to do, there was no franchise cricket cluttering the calendar at that time with players, especially from other countries, being torn between playing for their nation and any of those dozen or so T20 comps.
I believe that there is a consensus within the ICC for a "world" calendar but whether that comes to anything remains to be seen,
65-1 (10). We've been bowling a mixture of half trackers in an attempt to bump them out and what are tantamount to pre-match, warm-up, half volley throw downs.
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I believe that there is a consensus within the ICC for a "world" calendar but whether that comes to anything remains to be seen,