{"id":269192,"date":"2025-08-19T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269192"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:43:30","slug":"test-cricket-could-bankrupt-nations-aussie-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269192","title":{"rendered":"Test cricket could &#8216;bankrupt&#8217; nations &#8211; Aussie CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The traditional Test calendar could lead to bankruptcy for certain nations, Cricket Australia chief Todd Greenberg warned as he called for a slimmed-down schedule.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenberg wants quality prioritised over quantity to ensure a viable future for red-ball cricket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently set up a working group to discuss the Test format and the potential to introduce a two-tier system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Scarcity in Test cricket is our friend, not our foe,&#8221; said Greenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think everyone in world cricket needs to aspire to play Test cricket, and that might be OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re literally trying to send countries bankrupt if we force them to try to play Test cricket.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional Test calendar could lead to bankruptcy for certain nations, Cricket Australia chief Todd Greenberg warned as he called for a slimmed-down schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":269193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,14934],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-269192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-cricket","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269192\/revisions\/269194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}