Cricket Australia's deal to host game's biggest draw-card, India, in four out of six summers.Byline: ANI Melbourne, Oct. 23 (ANI): Cricket Australia Cricket Australia, formerly (and still often referred to as) the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket Matches. has reached an in-principle agreement to host the game's biggest draw-card, India, in four out of six summers under the new Future Tours Program (2012-2017). The new deal means that teams like the West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. and Pakistan may not get the same public billing as world cricket's other two heavyweights-South Africa and England. Australia already visits India, the financial heartland of the modern game, for either Tests or one-day internationals every year, and commences a seven-game ODI series in Vadodara on Sunday. Under the new arrangement, which is not yet set in stone but has the provisional backing of the International Cricket International Cricket is a cricket game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was only released in Australia in 1992. Developed by Melbourne House (as Beam Software) and published by Mattel, it was the only cricket game released for the NES. Council, India would come to Australia almost as often, visiting for Tests one summer and one-dayers the next, news.com reports. "The objective has been to spread the quality of touring teams over the period so that we get better value for the fans. If we get it right, we could have India touring here in four out of six years during the next FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to period," said Cricket Australia spokesman Peter Young. There is an obvious benefit to hosting India more regularly - the value of television rights to CA when India's stars are in town exceeds television revenue for an Ashes tour because of the huge, cricket-mad population on the subcontinent sub·con·ti·nent n. 1. A large landmass, such as India, that is part of a continent but is considered either geographically or politically as an independent entity. 2. . (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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