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Tim May calls for six-year touring cricket schedule

MELBOURNE: International players’ union boss Tim May plans to lobby the International Cricket Council (ICC) to switch to a six-year world touring programme to help reduce the workload on players.

May has resigned as chief executive of the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) to move to Texas with his American wife and their children. But the former Test off-spinner will continue working as chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers Association (FICA), which works with all player unions across the world.

The ACA and FICA are opposed to heavy scheduling, believing too much international cricket threatened to reduce players’ careers and saturate the market. May said cricket overload was hurting the sport globally, as cricket could not afford to have its superstars sidelined through injury.

This week Indian batting hero Sachin Tendulkar said he would be out for up to four months with a tennis elbow complaint.

The ICC is reviewing its scheduling program and has suggested guidelines to avoid over-scheduling by member nations, but May said these were not rigidly followed. May said FICA would approach the ICC to try and have every Test-playing nation to play every opponent home and away in a set time-frame – extended from five to six years in an attempt to reduce players’ workloads. afp

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