Think of the UEFA cup: the elite teams play in the Champions League.... but the "plate" tournament is huge: exclude those Test sides who have blown their chance at top spot... and present the tournament as a "best of the rest" thing in which A teams and lesser countries play in a qualifying round in order to meet the likes of Bangladesh, Kenya, WI and Zimbabwe in the knockout phase... and you have a classic "plate" contest....

UEFA Cup; UEFA Champions League
The above links explain how the Cup and the Champions League work. Clearly, the Cup is for losers and, as such, should be re-named the UEFA Losers Cup.

Perhaps our tournament could have a more positive name. Instead of Plate, it could be called the Developing Nations Cup or Emerging Players Cup etc.

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Good to see a trophy tournament involving A teams and Associate member teams. Things are heading in the right direction. If only they were televised.

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In honesty, seeing A-Team Tests on TV sees a little far because X TV company would not want to spend money buying the rights (cheap though they would be) and then sending out TV crews and commentators et al just for few people to watch it because there is little demand for it.

However, getting the rights to some A-team ODI's would be a great idea. ODI's will be much better for TV viewers (considering the lowered demand for A-Team cricket tests but One day games are much easier for the time demanding people) and I think that the audience levels would be pretty good. Certainly Australia/England games I think would generate a decent level of viewings in the UK.

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I think Vrock that for very little money it would be good to see A-Team Test on TV, be it BBC2, or even BBC3 it would make a very pleasent watch.

Also ITV have channels "4" of them I think, and all have to be filled with programmes, so they might just bite at the idea, it would for very little money for a lot of viewing time.

Personaly. I would watch such up an coming cricket Tests.

But I think I would want all Test cricket nations involving.

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ITV2 does have a lot of extra sports events so I guess they could always cover them, the main problem is there is just not enough demand for them.

I do agree, the rights to them would be tuppence due to the lack of demand. It's not like ITV get that many viewers anyway.

If there was a test tournament for A-Team sides I reckon SKY would dip their hand in and get the rights, they have shown A-Team cricket before. All be some England versus Sri Lanka ODI's which came to my mind just now, last year.

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