Despite there being more ODIs played than ever before, the men's Cricket World Cup in India gets underway with questions again being raised over the future of the format and its place in an increasingly crowded cricket calendar.
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"It just feels as though the world of ODI cricket, despite the broadcasters loving it, is getting smaller by the day," former Australia batter Ed Cowan"Not to be a doomsayer, but that's not an unrealistic situation.More ODI matches than ever, but few of them matterBy looking solely at the number of matches being played, one could be forgiven for thinking that everything is rosy in the 50-over garden.
That dwarfs the 2,515 officially recognised Test matches that have been completed in the 146 years of Test cricket — in just over a third of the amount of time. Incorrectly assuming that all those Tests were scheduled for five days, in the 1,542 days since the last World Cup final, those 12 teams have combined for a scheduled 1,581 days of cricket.The Cricket World Cup — that is, the 50-over World Cup — is the oldest of cricket's global tournaments, having first been played in 1975.
Earlier this week, new chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club , Mark Nicholas, proposed the best way to ensure the longevity of the format could be to limit its playing to the quadrennial World Cups. "[That would be] achieved by removing bilateral ODIs, other than in the one year preceding each World Cup.In 2015, England were knocked out of the 50-over World Cup in Australia at the group stages. Seven years on, they have become the first men's team to hold both the 50-over and 20-over World Cups.Timing in sport is everything.
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