FICA International Survey 2008

Tests remain the players' choice

Here are some salient point of the survey,

Test cricket
86% of players rate Test Cricket as the most important form of cricket - significantly in front of the next best the ICC World Cup (10%)
60% want a Test Championship to be created to give Test Cricket greater context
98% believe it is important that Test cricket maintains its current status in International fixturing

Twenty20 impact
Players believe that the impact of T20 will affect ODIs more so than Test Cricket.
70% of players believe that the T20 impact will affect the popularity of ODI cricket from a spectator's point of view.

IPL and ICL
86% believe that ICL is an attractive option.
67% would consider playing in the ICL.
24% believe that ICL is not in the interests of the game
52% would retire prematurely from International cricket to play exclusively in IPL
95% want a window in international cricket for IPL

81% claimed the bed was too lumpy.

12% Thought 'Owner of a lonely heart' was a good song.

38% Preferred their Martini stirred.

90% Admitted to checking out their teammate's tackle.

50.00000000000000000000000001% thought L was better than T.

99.9% thought Lalit Modi was a thunderqunt!

72% Thought that good neighbours really do become good friends.

88% thought that "once you'd popped you couldn't stop!"

60% want a Test Championship to be created to give Test Cricket greater context

I'd love it if that happened.

doremi wrote:

60% want a Test Championship to be created to give Test Cricket greater context

I'd love it if that happened.

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No-one has come up with a decent proposal as to how to go about it yet.

I did.

Really? I must've missed it.

It was some time ago. In C4. I've forgotten most of the details.

It was undoubtably good though.

8 out of 10 cats preferred it.