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Old 09-09-2004, 01:46 PM in reply to Richard Jenkins's post starting "I's probably too late to do anything..."
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Surely it's four years to the next one?

Just picking up on Rachael's comment that the ICCCT will never be very serious, well, to some extent I agree with that. But I saw on one of the websites that there is £300,000 for the winning team, which is no small amount, and some £10 million of profit from the first such tournament went into the ICC Cricket Development fund. Those numbers are surely enough to make the commercial considerations serious. I was surprised they were anything like this high. Given that all the profits from the tournament go to the development of the game in places where it is not well established, which seems a worthy cause to me, I'd expect the ICC to be looking pretty carefully at the projected financial implications before they leap on Aggers's and Pringle's suggestions.