'Urgent intervention': Game's huge mess blasted

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A committee of erstwhile and existent cricketers has warned the crippled needs "urgent intervention" to benignant retired its scheduling messiness that sees T20 leagues clash with planetary fixtures.

The MCC World Cricket Committee (WCC), which is chaired by erstwhile England skipper Mike Gatting and besides includes Justin Langer and Graeme Smith, says the crippled has reached "an important crossroads".

It urged the ICC to find a amended equilibrium betwixt home T20 leagues and planetary fixtures.

The WCC pointed retired that the docket is "saturated with franchise competitions, which overlay and compete" with the Future Tours Programme (FTP) of planetary matches.

"Of the home tournaments, lone the Indian Premier League commands thing similar a model to debar planetary clashes," it said.

"Also notable successful the caller men's FTP is an alarming and increasing disparity successful the magnitude of planetary cricket played by a number of subordinate nations compared to others; a concern which is intelligibly neither equitable nor sustainable."

Langer, who joined the WCC this year, says the planetary crippled indispensable proceed to thrive.

"The quality betwixt planetary cricket and home T20 cricket is that the full federation cares erstwhile their state is involved," helium said.

"The champion players' statistic are measured astatine planetary level: everyone knows that (Sachin) Tendulkar scored 100 planetary centuries and that (Muttiah) Muralitharan took 800 Test wickets.

"We request to support the integrity of Test cricket, and planetary cricket successful general. It is however large careers are judged and it is wherever existent passionateness and lasting memories are generated."

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