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<blockquote data-quote="NZL Fan" data-source="post: 90525"><p>Some nice points there.............more then the French could muster in two test matches (ha!)</p><p></p><p>Perhaps the answer is to have a major tournament between the world cups (much like the European cup for soccer), or having the world rankings actually meaning something every year (maybe a world championship, big money, one off game between teams ranked 1 and 2 each year?).</p><p></p><p>A major cup event in between world cups will mean teams building a combination within a two year period rather then the current 4 year period (ie. less wasted years playing meaningless fixtures with below strength teams).</p><p></p><p>It's a nice thought HOWEVER it's major weakness lies in the lack of competitive teams - unlike soccer. This makes creating an interesting competition, that is different from the world cup event, very difficult - cricket has the very same problem.</p><p></p><p>Going back to proper tours (yes, with midweek games for blooding players) is most likely the only real answer - but this isn't very likely unless the number of domestic competition games are reduced in both hemispheres.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NZL Fan, post: 90525"] Some nice points there.............more then the French could muster in two test matches (ha!) Perhaps the answer is to have a major tournament between the world cups (much like the European cup for soccer), or having the world rankings actually meaning something every year (maybe a world championship, big money, one off game between teams ranked 1 and 2 each year?). A major cup event in between world cups will mean teams building a combination within a two year period rather then the current 4 year period (ie. less wasted years playing meaningless fixtures with below strength teams). It's a nice thought HOWEVER it's major weakness lies in the lack of competitive teams - unlike soccer. This makes creating an interesting competition, that is different from the world cup event, very difficult - cricket has the very same problem. Going back to proper tours (yes, with midweek games for blooding players) is most likely the only real answer - but this isn't very likely unless the number of domestic competition games are reduced in both hemispheres. [/QUOTE]
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