SaintPowelly wrote:TO add to that, there is no incentive for the Derbyshires, Gloucestershires etc, to improve their grounds, because hosting 1 ODI every other year isn't financially viable.
Hants and Durham are in all kinds of debt because of upgrading ( attempting to ) to test match standard stadiums without getting a real look in.
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braveneutral wrote:I don't have a problem at all with putting it out to tender (no cost involved) whether it be an A and B group or a simple International classification for a pre-determined number of grounds. Any county can bid and say gets a license for a certain number of years given that they meet the criteria. Even specify Lord's as having some special guarantee if you must.
The problem comes I think in this model when, for example money is being taken from the central pot and given to international grounds to develop and maintain international standard when non-international grounds would need to foot the costs themselves.
Even if one or two of the lower level international grounds were to be named as the Home of the Lions, it might boost crowds for their matches.
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