{"id":82138,"date":"2016-06-03T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/as-icc-plans-test-cricket-overhaul-afghanistan-might-get-lucky\/"},"modified":"2016-06-03T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T07:00:37","slug":"as-icc-plans-test-cricket-overhaul-afghanistan-might-get-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/as-icc-plans-test-cricket-overhaul-afghanistan-might-get-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"As ICC plans Test cricket overhaul, Afghanistan might get lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"367\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/6 June\/3  Jun\/Afghan - Crit - Test game (3).jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (SW): The International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has hinted major overhaul to revive test cricket, a move that might pave the way for emerging countries like Afghanistan to come up front.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to promote the 2017 Champions Trophy, Richardson offered the prospect of Test status to the likes of Nepal, Ireland and Afghanistan, but warned more established nations &#8211; notably West Indies &#8211; that they could find themselves playing Division Two cricket if they are unable to improve their red-ball form.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#39;s a general realisation now that, if we&#39;re going to keep Test cricket going well into the future, we can&#39;t just say it&#39;s going to survive on its own,&quot; Richardson has been quoted by the ESPN Cricinfo.<\/p>\n<p>He said countries like Nepal, Afghanistan and Ireland are keen to play test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (SW): The International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson has hinted major overhaul to revive test cricket, a move that might pave the way for emerging countries like Afghanistan to come up front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}