I hope so. Taylor and Jarvis (as well as Ervine and Cremer) deserve to play vs the top 9 and it would be an injustice.jaybro wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:55 pmWill Zimbabwe get to play the top 9 in Tests ??Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:47 pmThe Irish seem to be on board with the 4-day concept.
I think ZIM can definitely get 5-day Tests with the Afghans and BD, and probably from the WI, SL, PAK because a draw in 4 days would not be a good result from their perspective.
Tests should always be 5 days. What this means is that 4-day matches are basically just first-class now.
Thats the biggest flaw of the 9-3 league. If each of the 9 plays just 1 series in a cycle vs the 3...thats 3 series each for the developing sides. The Big 3 would probably only play a single Test but the other 4 could easily play 2. And it should be that the points count so that Australia wont just send their A team to play Ireland.
But I guess the ICC has had other ideas all along.