‘They’ve just got to grow up’: Australia’s mission to save one-day cricket

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‘They’ve just got to grow up’: Australia’s mission to save one-day cricket
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Australian cricket’s leaders are among the 50-over game’s true believers, but they have the job ahead of them to make all games matter.

Mike Baird can remember, as a university student, sitting glued to the grainy TV pictures of Australia’s 1987 World Cup victory over England. Specifically, Baird recalls Mike Gatting’s fluffed reverse sweep that turned the final Allan Border’s way.

That was an Australia-England encounter at the SCG, one of three jammed into the program immediately after last year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia. England were the newly crowned champions in that format, but Australia won all three of these ODIs. If you’ve forgotten, you’re forgiven; they attracted an aggregate crowd of just more than 40,000.

“That could entail some sort of promotion and relegation system. I know some countries are completely averse to that. Sometimes, they’ve just got to grow up for the better.” It’s the same for everyone. On the eve of this tournament, prominent commentator and incoming Marylebone Cricket Club president Mark Nicholas suggested 50-over cricket should be played only at World Cups henceforth, the way best-of-five set tennis played only at majors.. “It will always hold a very special part of my heart for what it’s given me throughout my career. I think that’s a question that should be posed to the next generation of players, and to everyone watching the game, really.

Australia’s position is that the three formats – Test, one-day and Twenty20 – can co-exist, each with its own identity. That’s debatable. One of those three, the Malcolm-in-the-middle, coexists by barely existing at all, except as a revenue-raiser, staged quarterly. “We’re seeing with the introduction of the world Test championship how that works, we’ve seen with the qualification through to this World Cup with major cricketing nations like West Indies missing out and Netherlands coming through.

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