I really don't care much about if they are participating in Asian Games or not because it's directly related to commercial interest and ridiculous messy schedule.
But i'm really pissed at BCCI for not starting WIPL. These girls deserve this and most importantly Women cricket deserve WIPL. Although pressure is building up on BCCI regarding WIPL and they can't deny this for long so i'm expecting some positive news with in year.
Well, we all should care about cricket being a part of the Asian Games otherwise cricket is not going to prosper in the long run and cricket should also be made a part of the Olympics very soon. Otherwise, we will be stuck with watching the cricket world cup only for teams for a long time. because we all know that there are only 4 or 5 teams that actually can win the cricket World Cup.
We should be practical on all our efforts IMO.
We have 1 ICC tournament every year + 3-5 bilateral Test series every year + Countless random T-20 bilateral series + Asia Cup every 2 years + 2 Month IPL every year. This is jam pack schedule. BTW Asia cup is pending since 2018.
Potential solution would be cricket inclusion in the Olympics but with age restrictions (under 23) similar to football or ICC should add 6-10 more teams in the WC.
Yes, I agree and I think ICC should think about the smaller teams and make cricket a lot more interesting to them than it is right now.
If any work in bringing in the new teams don't work out I don't think cricket is going to be in a good spot in the long run.
Cricket needs to have influence all over the world because cricket only being played in the subcontinent or in some certain countries is obviously not going to draw interest from the other countries that are not too much interested in cricket right now.
Including Cricket in the Olympics would encourage people to take up cricket so that they can go to the Olympics and certain countries would fund them to find the talents and that is the best thing the ICC can do right now. You need the help of the government and the sports body to identify talents and ICC alone cannot do anything.
Yes, that can certainly increase the number of countries that plays cricket, and also it is surely going to boost the popularity of cricket.
To be honest it should have been done a long time ago and people are actually really obvious that ICC doesn't have too much headache about this.