08-19-2022, 12:57 PM
Test Cricket under more pressure with the new South African one day tournament set to take a month of the cricket calendar out for the year. Its hard enough squeezing tests in as it is and I was bit shocked to hear new SA Cricket Boss Graeme Smith ok with SA only playing 25-28 tests over the next 5 years.
What a surprise too that the SA franchise teams for this new tournament are all owned by IPL owners, so in short the tentacles of Indian cricket have reached over and bought out SA cricket. Smith said they need the investment to help all forms of cricket as SA cant hope to stay viable without this new comp providing funding for grassroots cricket in SA.
They couldnt get SA companies interested was Smiths reply to the question of Indian IPL owners funding the teams but said SA cricket Admin will still run the tournament...yeah right.
He did admit he sees only around 5 teams playing test cricket down the track and less test cricket being played..
What a surprise too that the SA franchise teams for this new tournament are all owned by IPL owners, so in short the tentacles of Indian cricket have reached over and bought out SA cricket. Smith said they need the investment to help all forms of cricket as SA cant hope to stay viable without this new comp providing funding for grassroots cricket in SA.
They couldnt get SA companies interested was Smiths reply to the question of Indian IPL owners funding the teams but said SA cricket Admin will still run the tournament...yeah right.
He did admit he sees only around 5 teams playing test cricket down the track and less test cricket being played..