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The 2012 ICC World Twenty should have been a 20 nation or atleast a 16 nation tournament and not the present 12 Nation

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The ICC says that T20 will be a driver for spreading cricket around the World however as a punishment for reversing the 2015 World Cup from 10 to 14 they cut the 2012 World Twenty20 to just 12 nations from 16. Already we have seen viewer fatigue as people enjoy India playing against just Aus, SA, Eng, Pak or May be SL. New teams performing like Ireland in this world cup are really exciting to see. However these teams can develop as the bigger teams can play few matches against the top 8 Associates. However the present FTP limits the Team to just play between the top 6 teams and some little for the rest 4 test teams. The Associates are simply out of sight Rugby has expanded it's World Cup to 20 nations and we can see some teams like Italy, France, Argentina have become really good and started to compete against the top teams. They also have introduced a shorter version whereas in Cricket the Olympic Chief is after Cricket to be included by ICC lead by BCCI are simply not interested. Just want to understand what other people think on the same. Your views please

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20 nations are way too much and will make the first round meaningless. Better is to keep a qualifying tourney which lets top 20 associates to play for 4 minnow spots in the world T20. And also teams like BD need to be stopped giving free tickets.
it dosent matter t20s are over in no time
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Sorry but I vote for lesser number of tontee tontee matches. FFS cricket will never break in US etc. even if we start 10-10 and there is no reason for going of an overkill of the crap format.
Well if we see the present top 10 Associate Nations at the moment they are 1. Ireland (Doing Great) 2. Afghanistan (Winners of Inter Continental Cup) 3. Scotland (Runner Up in Inter Continental Cup) 4. Netherlands (Gave a decent performance in 2011 WC. Need more exposure. Over 100 years cricket Tradition) 5. Canada (With so many South Asians and Windians Immigrating (5% of Population) cricket is making headway in country) 6. Kenya (Former powerhouse. It was lack of exposure that brought them to the present state. However now various great steps are being taken) 7. UAE (Home of cricket(Sharjah). The team under new coach has shown very strong performances) 8. Namibia (Played in 2003 Word Cup. Playing in Domestic league of South Africa has given a right exposure) 9. PNG (Excellent development program. Presently 60000 Children are playing cricket. The junior teams are doing excellently) 10. HK (The junior development program has really helped. The senior teams has so many youngsters. If the Chinese population take game it can really pick up) So 20 nations cricket is not really about USA or China. They are long way to come there but rather about places where much has happened. It is the lack of exposure to such teams that does double harm 1. Players don't get exposure 2. The Game does not spread as the local media rarely gets to cover the game Hence a 20 Nations T20 World Cup will be a right step. It does not take much time and daily 3 matches can be held on a day. This would be the right step. If America takes cricket and comes up to that standard then let it be like that. They have shown similar potential in Rugby because they were given chances.
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And we always will keep watching the following series for life 1. Ind V Aus 2. Ind V Eng 3. Ind V SA 4. Ind V Pak 5. Ind V SL Rest too boring to watch like Ind V WI or NZ or BD or ZIm or any one. Point to ponder upon and break the notion that cricket cannot spread. Cricket has highest number of teams in History. T20 is not long. It surely can spread the game

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I think it's rite to expand the ODI World Cup, ODI cricket will at minimum spread development of cricket infrastructure in the associate contries. A larger t20 world cup, will mean more teams, but those teams will be filled with mercenaries, like canada full asians and holland filled with south africans and australians. T20 with 16 teams is alrite as it is.

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