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No Super Series on horizon

Afp, Sydney
Australia's overwhelming dominance of the world's best in three lopsided one-dayers and a Test match may have killed the International Cricket Council's golden goose concept of a super series.
Ricky Ponting's Aussies crushed the World XI by a whopping 210 runs here Monday in a one-off Test that was scheduled to go for six days, but ran out of puff as a credible contest well inside four.
Ponting praised the concept -- his 132,000 US dollar share of the lucrative prize money perhaps helping his sentiments -- but it is unlikely if cricket fans will get to see more in the near future.
"When we set this series up, the question we asked was, 'Can a team of champions beat a champion team?'" ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said.
"And I think we saw the answer comprehensively both in Melbourne in Sydney," Speed told a press conference after the Test on Monday.
"As far as the world team is concerned, we share the players' disappointment in their performances.
"As for the future, I simply don't
know about that. It's a concept that for it to succeed it requires one team to stand out from the pack, to be the best team in the world.
"We've seen that with Australia in both one-day and Test cricket and so it was an opportunity to test that team against the rest of the world."
Speed said the next great team in world cricket could be England, India, South Africa or Australia, but the super series concept would not become a regular event on the world cricket calendar.
"It's not something we'll put in on a regular basis, it's not something that we're going to say we'll play this every two, four or six years," the ICC chief said.
"It's something that, if a team emerges that justifies being called the clearly the best team in the world, we may take the opportunity to put the rest of the world together and have a team of champions take them on.
"There's certainly no commitment to play this every four years. It was an opportunity to fill the gap and have an ICC event this year."
World XI coach John Wright floated the idea that a future series involved the top-two ranked one-day and Test teams and not a conglomeration of world stars.
"There are things the ICC needs to look at. From a personal point of view, sometimes finals are attractive, where a winner takes all," the former New Zealand Test opening batsman said.
"Number one versus number two over four years. There are various concepts out there. It is an attractive package, but it's got to produce the quality of cricket to match.”