Champions Trophy farking off?

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/561563.html

Bet the ICC will cock up in the last moment and organise one in 2017 again.

I thought that was already decided about four years ago, due to T20?

Aye, there wasn't supposed to be one next year. That was organised in place of the Test Championships due to telly money pressure.

Ah, I think my fried brain remembers something about that. Shite tournament really, anyhow. Certainly not disappointed.

tricycle wrote:http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/561563.html

Bet the ICC will cock up in the last moment and organise one in 2017 again.

they might, if the test championship does not get enough advertising dollars. more than one national board is dependent on icc handouts to balance their budgets and now they are kind of addicted to it

Aye, and that's the worry. It's a pretty pointless tournament.

been so for a decade now

it was always utterly pointless

Only one that sticks in my memory at all is the one held over here in the depths of autumn, when we beat the Aussies in the semis then let a couple of West Indian tailenders turn around a hopeless position in the final...

One positive of the proliferation of T20 is the demise of the SODIT, a category of which the ICCCT was king!