ICC Test, ODI leagues closer to reality

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Efforts to contextualize international cricket are a step closer to reality after the ICC's chief executives committee (CEC) worked out a viable schedule for a Test and ODI league.
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Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland sheds light on long-awaited plans for an ODI league and Test championship

A meeting of the ICC's Chief Executives Committee earlier this year outlined a draft schedule for a 13-team ODI league structure that would begin in 2020, after the 2019 World Cup in the UK, and run across two years during which all teams would play two mandated series of three matches at home and away.

"I don't think you'll see any country playing more than three one-day matches in a series in the future," Sutherland told cricket.com.au.

"They might intersperse them with some Twenty20 matches as well, but I don't think you'll see many five-match one-day series … if the plans at ICC level unfold for a Test championship and a one-day league.

"The contemplation around one-day cricket in the future is that each country hosts six one-day matches and plays six away matches as part of that league, so that's likely going to be the limits of it."

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