Moeen fears schedule will hit 50 overs game
England all-rounder Moeen Ali believes 50-over cricket could soon be consigned to the history books if the 'unsustainable' domestic and international calendar is not fixed.
It was only three years ago Eoin Morgan captained EnglandtoanunforgettableWorld Cup triumph in the same format, with Moeen part of the squad.
Next year will see England attempt to defend their crowd in India but this year they have only played nine one-day internationals and have no more scheduled for the rest of 2022 with Test cricket and T20s taking precedence.
Moeen, who is captaining Birmingham Phoenix in the Hundred, said: "It just feels like it's going that way and there's nothing almost you can do because I think the interest in50-overcricketisnotthereas it probably once was.
"So yeah, having won it in 2019 it's a difficult one because I genuinely feel in two to three years time, nobody's going to want to play it.
"It's a bit like our domestic stuff here at the moment, there's the Hundred while the 50-over is going on and there's not that much interest in it comparedtotheCountyChampionship,theVitalityBlastand the Hundred."
The Royal London Cup, the domestic50-overcompetition, istakingplaceonceagaininthe shadowoftheHundred,afranchise tournament created by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
With so many franchise leagues all around the world, and two more to be added in JanuaryinSouthAfricaandthe UnitedArabEmirates,Moeenis fearful the schedule will force moreplayerstoretireandeventually a format will have to feel the consequences.