What do you mean that white players could not play in the South African team because of the quota system? There have been white players playing in the South African team for quite a long time ago.

I agree that the quota system is not flawless. Actually, it is not even good. But that never deprived white people of their rights. And how did white people suddenly become victims of this system?

Understandable. I know that many people don't feel that he isn't legend material yet, but I feel that way because he has proved himself as a game-changing player on many, many occasions for various teams.

Actually, many educated people themselves are extremely racist, sexist etc. This problem will never go away, but it is decreasing with time around the world which is a good sign.

He's already a big name in red ball cricket. The reason he went under radar in recent time because he didn't play much red ball cricket due to injuries here n there, also during covid they hardly played any matches. During same period of time Ind-Eng-Aus played like million tests in comparison to Proteas.

Their new league is coming up so it would be interesting to see if they keep following same policy, considering IPL owners owns all the teams.

This is a very sensitive topic in South Africa. From what I heard, CSA has assured the franchise owners that there will be no quota based on skin color or race. But there is no confirmation. The officials from the ruling party (ANC) are going to put a lot of pressure to implement the quota for this league as well. But the franchise owners will be unhappy if that happens. And a lot of overseas players may refuse to play, on ethical grounds. Quality players will be included in the playing XI irrespective of their skin color. It will be good if CSA stop pushing low quality players for selection, just because they have another shade of skin.

We the people living outside RSA are not aware of ground realities. If there central government is doing such thing then defiantly there is some reason for that. Black people in RSA are suffering from discrimination for decades and now they said enough is enough. Black lives matter and they have equal right to play cricket just like white people.

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




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

In that case we should restrict international cricket to the pig-4 nations only. Because whenever they play against a team such as Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, it results in a lop-sided match. Funding is the main reason why the ICC doesn't want associate nations participate in the main tournaments. For example, Zimbabwe cricket board receives around $12 million per year from the ICC, and more from TV deals because pig-4 teams do play regularly against them. Associate nations receive far less. Nepal for example receives around $200,000 per year and this means that they can't offer contracts to their players. So obviously they won't be able to perform when they play in ICC tournaments.

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe ODI update for now the ZIM is already leading by the 2-0 and according to the current match situation the BAN alredy lost 7 wickets and made 236 Runs in 47.3 overs. ZIM is leading with the strategy BAN  has many week points in their batting order for me the results of the match seems very clear for now. ZIM can Win the match if they stop the total before the 260. Batting Order of the ZIM is much better then the BAN

I think ICC gets enough funds to give the associate teams and weaker teams a lot more money. The ICC is always giving too much importance to the most powerful teams.

@Sithara007, If ICC decides to limit cricket to the top four teams, that is obviously not going to be good because they will not be receiving good money. But they can do the same thing and receive more money by implementing a tier system. And keeping a promotion-demotion system between tiers. But I don’t think they are willing to do that. The big four will need to get back to form when they get destroyed by opponents at their level, and they will need to play it against weaker opponents.

@JSRAW, I firmly believe the ICC has enough funds to support T20 and one-day international cricket. They also have a good enough fund to play test cricket. But the problem is there are always going to be corrupt people. And I also think ICC itself has become a lot more greedy. Otherwise, they could have given a lot more money to the weaker teams so that they could get better.


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duke

If I think about the business then they have to increase the number of countries or the number of teams. Thus the organization will be able to achieve their success quickly. Football is so popular and financially viable today because of its large audience. The number of footballers is also high. Most of the countries in the world play football. Therefore, in the larger interest of cricket, ICC should take new steps.