{"id":196095,"date":"2026-07-23T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=196095"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:37:43","slug":"ashes-test-to-played-in-india-cricket-australia-chief-floats-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=196095","title":{"rendered":"Ashes Test to played in India? Cricket Australia chief floats the idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71259538\">Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg is open to the possibility of staging a Test against England in India.<\/p>\n<p>The three nations represent cricket\u2019s \u2018Big Three\u2019 \u2014 the sport\u2019s most powerful nations \u2014 but India is the financial powerhouse of the global game, fuelled by the mass enthusiasm for the sport in the world\u2019s most populous country.<\/p>\n<p>Any Australia-England fixture in India would need the backing of both the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not something that we are planning, but it\u2019s open for consideration,\u201d Greenberg told the        <i>BBC <\/i>in comments published Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019d have to be open to considering all options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur relationship with the ECB and the BCCI is very strong and clearly there are opportunities in India to put more content in certain areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia and England played the first Test in cricket history in Melbourne in 1877 and next year they will meet at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for a one-off pink-ball fixture to mark the 150th anniversary of that inaugural clash.<\/p>\n<p>Several former players are understood to have voiced concerns that the showpiece match will be a pink-ball affair but Greenberg said it was not his job \u201cto be popular\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to get as many people for the game as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cPlaying that game in the day while people are at work and school would\u2019ve made that difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly there\u2019s a commercial imperative with broadcast rights back in the UK and the time zone. Pink-ball Tests for us are hugely advantageous in terms of audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will anger some of the traditionalists but we\u2019re in the business of getting more eyeballs on our game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Greenberg said Cricket Australia was trying to strike a balance between celebrating a significant landmark in Test history and ensuring the longer format attracts new spectators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to balance celebrating 150 years of Test cricket between our two countries but also have an eye on the future and how we can evolve the sport,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 23, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/australia-vs-england-ashes-test-in-india-host-todd-greenberg-comments-cricket-australia-chief-executive\/article71259538.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg is open to the possibility of staging a Test against England in India. The three nations represent cricket\u2019s \u2018Big Three\u2019 \u2014 the sport\u2019s most powerful nations \u2014 but India is the financial powerhouse of the global game, fuelled by the mass enthusiasm for the sport in the world\u2019s most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Australia_England_Cricket_61633.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193146,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193146","url_meta":{"origin":196095,"position":0},"title":"ICC endorses Afghan refugee women\u2019s development programme, re-constitutes taskforce","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The International Cricket Council (ICC) has endorsed the continuation of its Development Pathway Programme for Afghan refugee women cricketers and set a target of enabling the team to compete in the governing body\u2019s qualification pathway by 2030. 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