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In cricket and in football world cup qualifying, why must most of the matches be giant versus midget ?
In cricket and in football world cup qualifying, why must most of the matches be giant versus midget with only a 1% chance of an upset (including a draw)? Why can't they have a system that creates more evenly matched games, and that allows countries to play someone of their own calibre? Why can't one of the two (world cup qualifying or continental cup qualifying) be played in higher and lower divisions ? Wouldn't a ladder system for test cricket and a system of divisions in the continents make for better suspense (they could have promotion & relegation and, if requested to, a short knockout tournament could still give you all the mismatches and the everybody-has-an-equal-chance-to-win you request)?
They do in Cricket
It is the ICC Trophy where all the minor teams have a tournament of their own to decide who the top 4 are who then qualify to play in the cricket world cup
Ireland won that trophy last time out and will be represented in the West Indies next summer
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