CHAMPIONING WORLD CRICKET // DEVELOPMENT


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GLOBAL REACH


T20I status for all and the launch of social cricket initiative criiio are just two of the radical innovations to grow the game


Competitions: Clearing the Pathway


Over the past 12 months, attention was given to a complete re-structure of the men’s pathway events in order to better address the high- performance needs of Members and to provide more, and more meaningful, international cricket.


T20 is the format that the ICC Board has stated will best grow the game internationally so the awarding of T20I status to all Member federations and inclusion in the MRF World Rankings was an important milestone. Participation fees for all pathway events have been waived and the participation criteria for pathway events have been relaxed – thus removing significant barriers to participation in ICC events for all Members.


The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 and the Cricket World Cup Challenge Leagues, which will run from 2019-21, replace the ICC World Cricket League. Under the Cricket World Cup League 2 structure (which will be contested by Namibia, Nepal, Oman, PNG, Scotland, UAE and USA) there will be 126 ODIs played across 21 tri-series in defined windows, with the first series kicking off in Scotland on 14 August 2019. The pathway towards the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup is now clearer for Members and for the wider public. Most importantly, the new structure, with defined competition windows, will enable Members to better structure their high performance programmes and plan their international cricket schedule for the next two and a half years.


Hosts Namibia won the last ICC WCL Division 2 competition beating Oman in the final, a fixture which was awarded ODI status. Papua New Guinea beat USA for third place and all four nations qualified for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2019-21 with the USA gaining ODI status for the first time.


Participation: Play the game your way


There has been a focus on two areas with regard to participation:


• Positioning cricket at the forefront of a global shift away from organised sport and towards more social and flexible physical activity formats; and


• Enhancing the capacity of Members to deliver their strategic objectives through the development of world class resources that can be used and applied in accordance with their own development strategies.


Based on research conducted by the ICC, cricket has an estimated 460 million participants. Most of those engage with the sport in social formats. A smaller group participate through organised school and club cricket – at both junior and senior levels.


In order to grow the participation base, the ICC has to strengthen its offering for both social cricket as well as the organised cricket programmes run by our Member Federations.


Criiio is the culmination of nearly two years’ research and design by the ICC to create a cricket offering to the hundreds of millions of people around the world who enjoy our game outside of the traditional structures. It is a celebration of bat and ball recognising that cricket can be played anywhere, at anytime, by anyone and was launched on the eve of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup.


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