How much will the abolishment of the FTP affect world cricket?

Question

If the proposal is passed Test nations will no longer be bound by the FTP and they will be free to schedule bilateral tournaments as they like. This means that nations will no longer be obliged to play against every team every four year cycle, they will pick and chose who to play against and enter into a binding legal contract to fulfill every match scheduled for that tour.

That sounds peachy doesn't it, the 'Big Three' are going for the hard sell on this one. The BCB have already been promised tours to England, Australia and India. What great news for Bangladesh, they have a chance to make revenue for once, this new system sounds awesome.

What happens after that though? Every nation is obviously going to look at maximising their revenues. Every test nation is going to be lining up to play the 'Big Three' to make some mulah. The test cricket fund might help to organise some test series that aren't profitable but they will take the back seat.

Will the BCCI make bilateral agreements to tour SA and NZ just to get hammered when they could make more money playing at home with the other nations all begging to play them there?

Will England, Australia and India not play more series against each other now because it will be more profitable for them? They no longer have to waste time scheduling series against the less profitable nations.

It doesn't seem like a good move to me. What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

I like the idea, the current setup is like a page out of labours manifesto, a benefit society. If a series between Sri Lanka & Bangladesh doesn't make money, it shouldn't be played, it wouldn't happen in any other sport or in any other industry. These teams can rest on their laurels knowing the money will come regardless, it's very old fashioned.



Crickets very popular in Bangladesh & Sri Lanka, they need to use that & run it like a business to make it profitable, there is no reason why they can't. The wonderful thing for me, the underlining principle is they need to play cricket to earn their bread, which is good for cricket as a whole. If they don't succeed in the above, associate nations will be begging to have a go.



What do you know? You're a Man U fan....... Anyway, :-), with only 3 teams cricket would die anyway, I'm bored of Australia, I find comfort in that, to be financial heavyweights they need the rest of the nations as well. I think it'll work well.

Answer 2

At JB



Mate if Cricket is to run like a business there shouldn`t be any TESTS...best way to use cricket`s popularity in SL is to play T20 again again..But cricket is more than that to SL..WI or Bangladesh might to do that but what SL want is to play 12-15 TESTS per year..(They had to cancel couple of test series when they hit the rock bottom financially due to corruption but it wont happen again)



without a FTP what we`ll see is powerful 3 playing against each other again and again..Till they get bored ! and then when a team is about to go down in rankings they might arrange a series against a lesser team at home ..



And also when there is a WC or an important tournament they `ll visit the host country 2 months before and arrange a series to get used to their pitches

Answer 3

Even wid FTP there were heart-burns, a plenty...d big 3 have been scheduling matches as they please, playing one another whenever dey chose to, and widout any financial benefits to d other teams...at least wid dis the other teams are assured of a certain sum ( a 100% increase to deir present revenue). With the FTP in place Bangladesh never got such an assurance as they are getting now.... three series against 3 top teams was something they cudn't have dreamt of....as to what will happen in d future, it can only be speculative..as such d ICC was going nowhere..dis is a change..for better or worse???only time will tell....

Answer 4

FTP as we all know is File Transfer Protocol so it can never be without a rule. To send any file through a network; FTP will have to be followed otherwise there will be no file transfer.



Hey.. Just kidding. This will a very bad move IMO.