19 September,2017 08:34 AM IST | Melbourne | PTI
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland felt that the ongoing series against India could be one of the last five-match rubbers in the ODI format as efforts are on to introduce a global league
James Sutherland
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland felt that the ongoing series against India could be one of the last five-match rubbers in the ODI format as efforts are on to introduce a global league.
According to cricket.com.au, Sutherland has confirmed that if the proposed introduction of a 13-team ODI league goes ahead, then future bilateral ODI series is unlikely to exceed three matches. However, individual boards are free to chalk out their own bilateral programmes. "I don't think you'll see any country playing more than three one-day matches in a series in the future," Sutherland said.
"They might intersperse them with some Twenty20 matches as well, but I don't think you'll see many five-match one-day series if the plans at ICC level unfold for a Test championship and a one-day league," he said.
The proposed ODI league could have six home and six away games. "The contemplation around one-day cricket in the future is that each country hosts six one-day matches and plays six away matches as part of that league, so that's likely going to be the limits of it."
Sutherland also felt that a World Test Championship is the need of the hour.
