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Originally Posted by Night_wolf
what ICC is taking is a Big Risk with this tier system IMHO
as long as India remains in 1st Tier this could work, but what happens if india drops down?, then India cant tour Aus SA ENG, and vice versa..how would then AUS SA and ENG get share of the money that india make?
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I highly doubt India will ever fall out of the top tier, although they were always a 5th or worse ranked team up till the 2000s. The main issue is will the likes of WI, NZ, PAK, SL go along with being placed in a 2nd tier. I hope not.
This solution won't make Tests better. It will only benefit the top 4 even more. They should just leave it as is. There are only 9 viable Test teams and adding IRE and eventually AFG will make it 11. A de facto tier system already exists.