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NEIL MANTHORP: Proteas hit for six as the big three nations push and shove
Imagine if Chelsea, Liverpool and the two Manchester football clubs decided they would play each other three times a season in the Premier League and only once against Bournemouth and Cardiff — and not at all against Huddersfield. It would increase revenue but the league would lose its credibility and reputation it has worked so hard to accumulate. The International Cricket Council (ICC), however, has bravely started out on that route, confident the game’s followers won’t mind (or notice) that some teams play each other several times more than others while some don’t play each other at all over the course of the next four-year Future Tours Programme (FTP). Australia and India have seven tours against each other in that time, including three four-Test series and no less than 17 ODIs and 11 T20Is. Not including the current humdinger of a tour, India and England have two more five-Test series coming and two others comprising three ODIs and three T20Is each. England and Australia, of co...
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