Wednesday, 10 May 2006

Ben on...future tours programme

The Future Tours Programme has been been released by the ICC, now extended to a six-year cycle.

It is nicely laid out and colour coded, but will take some time to analyse. However, one thing that stands out for me is that New Zealand seems to be the only country with anything like a regular off season.

I would really like to know how the schedule is decided, as the sequence of tours seems quite strange. New Zealand's next overseas tour is to South Africa, the same as our last overseas tour. And this won't come until the '07/'08 season. In that season we also play host to England, and then less than a month after hosting them we travel there for another series.

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