Crucket

I’ve just come round to the news that the next World 20-20 will be played in 2010, not even a year after this years tournament. Sheesh. Don’t leave your seats, it’s non-stop action in 20-20.

The deal is that the rescheduling of the Champions Trophy (the one that was taken off Pakistan) would have given us a Champions Trophy at the end of 2009 and another at the beginning of 2010, so they have changed the 2010 one to a World 20-20.

With the World Cup due in 2011 we really are chocker with tournaments. Something’s gotta give and it’s gotta be that Champions Trophy. My understanding was that the Trophy’s purpose was to bring big tournaments to places outside the big 8, places like Kenya and Bangaladesh. But since the 2002 tournament in Sri Lanka, it’s been nothing but a little orphan world cup. And now a cuter orphan with more personality has shown up, the World 20-20. What do we need the Champions Trophy for?

Let’s hope the World Cup survives until at least 2015 when it is held in NZ and Australia.

Y’know, the World Cup was last held in Australasia in 1992. Since then there have been 4 Cups, 5 Champions Trophies and 2 World 20-20s. Then there’s next year’s Trophy and 20-20 and 2011′s Cup, making 14 tournaments, none of them held in Australia or New Zealand. What’s with that? Couldn’t Australasia have been tossed even a single Champions Trophy or World 20-20 in all these years?