Cricket Tips

I feel in order to ensure that good players get decent exposure to international cricket, either or a combination of the following steps can be taken

1. Allow a 12 Player team where the 12th player will not be allowed to Bat. That way the team can play a specialist bowler who need not be good batsman. Somebody like a McGrath, Walsh etc. for that matter a specialist fielder or wicket keeper as well.

2. Instruct the Test playing Boards to chose a pool of top 30 players at the beginning of the season and allow non Test playing nations to contract two from the players not on the list of 30 i.e. excluding the 30. In this way somebody like a Brad Hodge, Sridharan Sriram, Hemang Badani, Boeta Dippanar etc. will still be able to play international cricket. The other advantage would be the quality of cricket will enhance. A team like Zimbabwe who has a decent bowling line up but is struggling with their batting can contract 2 batsmen.

3. Introduce a rest of the world test team in which best players selected from non test playing nations can team up to play a couple of games against the test playing nations. For example a combination of Netherlands, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Scotland could be a decent side. That way the temperament of these players will improve. ICC should make the team based on a Ranking system.

4. In limited overs internationals one bowler should be allowed to ball a few overs more than 10 for e.g. 12 overs. Some incentive to the bowlers in the current batsman friendly system.