The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has suggested limiting the number of one-day internationals after the 2027 World Cup to improve quality and create space in the calendar, as well as establishing a fund to help smaller nations play Test cricket.
The custodian of the game's laws also called for more funds to be directed to women's cricket, saying "significant transformation" was needed to protect the sport overall.
"The suggestion is that a scarcity of ODI cricket would increase the quality, achieved by removing bilateral ODIs, other than in the one-year preceding each World Cup," the MCC said in a statement on Tuesday.
"This would, as a consequence, also create much-needed space in the global cricketing calendar."
The recommendations could only be implemented following cricket's 2023–2027 cycle.
The MCC's World Cricket Committee (WCC) panel expressed "particular concern" for the sustainability of Test cricket outside of India, Australia, and England while welcoming additional money into the game and pointing out the financial discrepancy among members.
