Australia captain Alyssa Healy says she would again any transfer to develop ladies’s multi-format collection right into a world championship occasion.
Thursday’s Test between Australia and England at Trent Bridge will kick off the seventh multi-format Ashes between the groups. It was launched in 2013.
The winner of the Test match will gather 4 factors on the general head-to-head leaderboard, whereas three Twenty20s and three One-Day Internationals are price two factors every.
The multi-format collection is certainly one of three Australia will play within the subsequent seven months, with a tour to India and residential fixtures in opposition to South Africa to observe.
Officials are determined to encourage extra ladies’s groups to play Test cricket, with Pakistan and New Zealand having not executed so since 2004.
One thought would come with turning the multi-format collection right into a biennial world problem, in the identical vein as the boys’s World Test Championship.
The championship could be simpler than the boys’s, given all collection are the identical in size and might be used to finish an general ladder earlier than the highest two qualify for the ultimate.
Most fixtures would already be scheduled within the Future Tours Programme, with solely South Africa needing to make up video games as they haven’t any Tests set past this summer season.
“Why not do it?” Healy mentioned to AAP.
“That could be a really great idea. It would take investment, it would take time and planning.
“And whether or not we’re at a spot to do this or not, or whether or not the ICC are able to put that in place, I’m not certain.
“But at least organisations are willing to put it to the table, which is cool.”
The different advantages of such a system could be to present extra context to particular person collection, and provide extra to play for in every Test match.
As issues stand, groups typically play defensively within the Test in a bid to not quit factors on the collection ladder.
But the lure of gaining factors and locations on a championship desk might change that.
“You could go one of two ways with the Test match in these series,” Healy mentioned.
“We went from a point of it being worth a lot of points, and then it was you don’t want to lose because you’re out of the series.
“Then it was a mid-point, and now there may be discuss of creating it price much less factors.
“Hopefully us playing against three different sides in the space of seven months might encourage a few others to go, ‘You know what, we might have a go (at Test cricket)’.”
Cricket Australia chief government Nick Hockley instructed AAP the precedence remained encouraging extra nations to play multi-format collection.
“We’re really encouraged that more countries are wanting to play,” Hockley mentioned.
“We would love to see multi-format series being a regular feature of all tours.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
