Protecting history

Global Game Leadership Committee: In its comprehensive report to fix cricket’s ever-busy landscape, the World Cricketers’ Association (WCA) has called for protected windows to play international cricket, as well as for having more equitable revenue distribution and making ICC a global governing body.

Titled ‘Protecting History, Embracing Change: A Unified, Coherent, Global Future’, WCA said the report is the culmination of a six-month review of cricket’s global structure, and draws on interviews with 64 senior game stakeholders, including players, administrators, and commercial and media partners, in addition to the compilation of data from various experts.

WCA has cited the current global cricket scheduling as chaotic, inconsistent, and confusing, with the overlap of international games and domestic T20 tournaments leading to erosion of the overall quality of the product.