Would you be interested to see an annual 50-over Tri-series between India, India 'A' and India 'B' with all of India's big players playing?

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

 

Would you be interested to see an Would you be interested to see a 50-over Tri-series between India, India 'A' and India 'B' played every year or 2 years?

 

Imagine India's fringe players suddenly coming into national limelight by scoring big runs against Bumrah and Shami, or a bowler getting the better of Rohit Sharma or Kohli.

[Insidious]

15 years back, we used to have challengers trophy in our domestic callender, where all the senior used to participate. Sachin, sourav , Rahul, yuvraj, Raina all used to participate in that series. Why that concept was discarded? Pathetic!

[philcric]

Getting 2 competitive teams outside of international players might be difficult.

 

May be 3 (or 5) match series between Ind and Ind A would be good.

 

[Mosher]

Challenger series was great. Fringe players competing with India players was a very good idea. Don't know why it was stopped. 

[Clarke]

Would prefer more teams, 4-6. Gets all our potential players in the limelight as well with more opportunities than 2-3 games.

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

23 minutes ago, philcric said:

Getting 2 competitive teams outside of international players might be difficult.

You don't need to. Form the two best teams you can form from outside of the international players. It's upto individual players to make it count. The series could be promoted with the same importance as an ODI or even IPL, with fringe players challenging the international team.

[express bowling]

Yes

 

I want to see such a tri series every year.

 

 

[Ankit_sharma03]

We want to see but the point is will it get its audience n sponsors...if not wnt happen in the best way

This idea is gr8 for our cricket but BCCI dont see it as viable

 

its far better then playing poor performing international teams

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

50 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

We want to see but the point is will it get its audience n sponsors...if not wnt happen in the best way

They're promoting IPL right now with just Indian players. Why can't the Challenger Series (or whatever they want to call it) be promoted the same way with players most of whom are household names now because of IPL? It can be a major tournament in the annual calendar IMO.

[sandeep]

23 minutes ago, TNAmarkFromIndia said:

They're promoting IPL right now with just Indian players. Why can't the Challenger Series (or whatever they want to call it) be promoted the same way with players most of whom are household names now because of IPL? It can be a major tournament in the annual calendar IMO.

Yep, presentation matters a lot.  Call it 'all-stars' or whatever, put some promos around it, and decent coverage.  There are plenty of Indian cricket fans who would appreciate it.  They are out there.  Problem is that the ad dollars are more primed towards chasing that big fat sweet spot of 'casual' fans, who want to see 'their guys' against 'other guys'.  Especially "phoren" other guys.  

[Khota]

Absolutely. This is avery good and a practical idea. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 hour ago, TNAmarkFromIndia said:

They're promoting IPL right now with just Indian players. Why can't the Challenger Series (or whatever they want to call it) be promoted the same way with players most of whom are household names now because of IPL? It can be a major tournament in the annual calendar IMO.

yes i have the same question

but diff wud be t20 format n odi format n city base loyalty 

[zen]

If they can schedule something with so much cricket being played (may have to cut back on some international series)  ..... if it happens, it should be on zonal lines (or something to that order) as it is hard to follow randomly selected Ind A, B or whatever 

[bowl_out]

7 hours ago, Clarke said:

Would prefer more teams, 4-6. Gets all our potential players in the limelight as well with more opportunities than 2-3 games.

That's too many. And defeats the purpose of domestics.

 

Three teams is ideal. Just the top 35 players makes it competitive

[Clarke]

1 minute ago, bowl_out said:

That's too many. And defeats the purpose of domestics.

 

Three teams is ideal. Just the top 35 players makes it competitive

It's just 4 games and one of the sides plays just two, even good players may miss out. I'm fine with three teams if they play each other twice, although still think a slightly bigger pool of 4 teams sounds better.

[Vk1]

Hugely disappointed with our batting stocks for LOI games.. we just don't seem to have any talented middle order hitters.. always giving chances to street smart gully players like Karthik, Jadhav who can barely hit a fast bowler like Turner did today..  these kind of tourneys might unearth some potential if there is any

 

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

3 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

yes i have the same question

but diff wud be t20 format n odi format n city base loyalty 

I don't think so. People are so cricket crazy in this country that a match with the top IPL and national team stars is going to draw people, especially in cities which don't get international cricket very often.

[Mariyam]

How does one market an event like this?

Who does one root for?

 

A better idea would be to make it zone/region wise and split the Indian team, India A and India B by geographic regions.

Edited March 11, 2019 by Mariyam

[R!TTER]

Too much cricket these days, would't make sense given we also have IPL. Now if we could rest key players from IPL this would make it more viable.

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

1 hour ago, Mariyam said:

How does one market an event like this?

Who does one root for?

A better idea would be to make it zone/region wise and split the Indian team, India A and India B by geographic regions.

Current stars vs future stars. Fringe players gunning for a spot in the national team. Not hard in terms of how to market it. Star Sports is doing it right now with IPL.

 

The draw will be the players. Fans will flock to the stadium to see Kohli, Dhoni, Bumrah etc. donning the India blues anyway. It's win-win for the fans no matter which team wins the game. It will showcase the quality of our bench strength and if anyone can compete with our international players. People don't take domestic, IPL or 'A' cricket performances seriously, but if they perform against our international team, they will come under the limelight and people will know they're the real deal. Imagine our international team losing to India 'A' or India 'B'. Anyone coming up with match-winning performances against our international team will be the talk of the country.