Former West Indies captain Sir Clive Lloyd, who led them to success within the 1975 and 1979 World Cups, has criticised the plans, saying they “should be stopped now”.
”It is going to be horrible for all these international locations who work so onerous to get to Check-match standing and now they’re going to be enjoying amongst themselves in a decrease part,” Lloyd, 80, mentioned.
“How are they going to make it to the highest? Whenever you play towards higher groups, you enhance. That is how you understand how good you might be, or how unhealthy you might be. I’m very disturbed.
“The higher system could be to present the groups the identical sum of money to allow them to get the instruments to enhance.”
West Indies had been unbeaten in Check sequence between 1980 and February 1995, however have struggled in recent times, with their final sequence win coming in February 2023 towards Zimbabwe.
Their final sequence win towards a workforce that might be within the proposed tier one was towards England in March 2022.
They did pull off a well-known win towards Australia in Brisbane in January 2024 to attract the sequence.
”We battle rather a lot, we’d like particular dispensation,” mentioned Lloyd. ”Some on the backside will not be enjoying Check matches and a few are enjoying a world of Check matches.
“The system isn’t proper. They’ve to sit down down and work it out, that is what they’re there for. That is their responsibility, that is their job to try this.”
Former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent can also be towards the proposals.
“If we simply see increasingly of the massive weapons going towards one another, nice, I am positive it could be entertaining, however what does it imply for the sport?” she instructed 5 Stay.
“The truth is that we’re enjoying in a worldwide sport, and what we do need – simply to play a few international locations to maintain the excitement there persistently?
“Scheduling and timing of key sequence does develop into actually necessary and making an attempt to keep away from these large home windows [like Olympics and major football tournaments], however I would not sacrifice having a worldwide sport simply to maintain everybody revved up 24/7.”
