Posts Tagged: ICC

0Corruption Bribe Spot FixingThe IPL — In competition with the Snooker?

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Two of my favour­ites sports have dom­in­ated the sports news pages this week, but sadly for all the wrong reas­ons. The last few years have seen a sig­ni­fic­ant increase in the num­ber of reports of gambling-related cor­rup­tion, is this a case of increas­ing crime or increas­ing crime detec­tion?… Read Full Article

0International Cricket Council logoWhat’s wrong with the ICC test ranking system?

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Any­one that fol­lows test crick­et will know that all the sides are ranked, for example, at the time of writ­ing South Africa are (rightly) ranked the best side in the world. I’ve long felt that the sys­tem used to rank teams needs revis­ing, as it often seems to pro­duce rank­ings that are clearly at odds with how well teams have been play­ing. Let me use the cur­rent rank­ings as an example.

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