Associate nations to enter into the current bilateral cricket framework. It is in favour of considering cricket for inclusion as an Olympic sport and revisiting the number of teams that will compete in the World T20 and World Cup.The body would also like to see the role of the Champions Trophy reviewe

LONDON -- Lying flat on the Vicarage Road pitch, it seemed Anthony Martials game could be prematurely over.The Manchester United forward had clashed with Watford defender Daryl Janmaats head as they both soared to reach the descending ball. While Janmaat made the connection for the header, Martial felt the full force of the impact with his Premier League opponent.But after receiving attention from Uniteds doctor, Martial was able to continue playing in Sundays game -- for a short time, at least. Seven minutes later, Martial was off the field for good.Although it was a crunching tackle that brought Martial down again in the 34th minute, the Frenchman was still clearly disorientated from the earlier collision. After Uniteds medical team carried out further checks on the players vision, Martial left the pitch clutching his forehead with his left hand.It immediately raised questions about why Martial had remained in the game, if concussion was suspected. The English Football Associations guidelines , introduced in November, are clear: There must be no return to play on the day of any suspected concussion.United manager Jose Mourinho was vague after the 3-1 loss at Watford, saying he did not know if Martial was concussed. Martials only comments on the incident came through his social media accounts on Tuesday, writing alongside a thumbs-up emoticon: Feel much better today.The continued uncertainty about Martials condition has prompted scrutiny of Uniteds adherence to concussion protocols. Headway, a British brain injury association, called for an independent review into how concussion guidelines are implemented.Too often over the course of the past few seasons we have seen players return to games following a head injury, only to be substituted a short time later showing more obvious signs of concussion, Headway said in a statement, warning about the dangers of a player receiving a secondary blow.But Ian Beasley, who helped to create the FA guidelines, cautioned against a rush to judgment against clubs or his fellow doctors.Things happen on the pitch that are easy to see from the stands and on camera but are not easy to see on the touchline, Beasley told The Associated Press.Its like someone sprains their ankle. You see how it goes and within two minutes they put their hand up and say they cant carry on. You havent done any more damage it but at least you know what the situation is.Snap assessments are required during matches, although precise tests for concussion dont exist. Players are asked standard questions by the medic, including:- What venue at we at?- Which half is it now?- Who scored last in this match?All the questions can be answered normally and later inside they start to feel the effects, five to 10 minutes later, sometimes two hours later, said Beasley, who was England team doctor until June when he left the FA.Doctors like Beasley can receive calls from players long after a game suspecting concussion that wasnt immediately obvious at the time.Concussion is not a straight forward thing, he said. So people will ring you two hours after you have got home in the evening after the game and say, `Ive got a headache and I feel a bit groggy, and theyve got concussion. Its an evolving condition.FIFA allows matches to be stopped for three minutes while team doctors assess players with head injuries.The FA protocols were introduced following a high-profile incident in the 2013-14 Premier League season when Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was allowed to return to the pitch by then-coach Andre Villas-Boas despite appearing to lose consciousness when he was struck on the head by an opponents knee.The FA only provides guidelines and cannot punish a club suspected of being too hasty in allowing a player to continue. There is no evidence United was at fault on Sunday.But its a reflection of the growing awareness of concussion that head injuries during globally-televised games, such as the Premier League, can prompt an immediate stream of comments online from fans and pundits debating medical procedures.The more people who focus on concussion is fantastic, Beasley said. 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They called for rebalancing of the structures to reflect modern realities.The cricketers interviewed - which exclude those from India, Pakistan and Zimbabwe, who do not have player associations - recognised that while international bilateral cricket remained the major source of the games revenue, it was rapidly losing its attractiveness. In order to remain valuable, players advocated ways to improve the game by centralising global competitions in all three formats while creating distinct windows for domestic T20 cricket.Players want less Tests and significantly less ODI cricket overall, but more international T20Is. They want to keep the longest format concentrated in countries where the market and a strong four-day structure exists and confine ODI cricket to a league culminating in a global event, such as the World Cup, and removing all other bilateral fixtures. They also want T20 cricket to be played in a league format with a headline event, similar to the qualification process for the 2017 Champions Trophy. This more condensed structure will, according to FICA, preserve the value and generate interest in bilateral cricket which has become a poor sporting product that delivers limited context and narrative beyond results against rivals and benchmarking against history, and is not part of an easy-to-understand clear competitive structure. The current rankings are regarded as so confusing that 72% of the players interviewed admitted to not understanding them.Players believe leagues will also unclutter the cricketing calendar which currently makes them feel forced into choosing between formats and testing their loyalty to their countries like never before. 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FICA would like to see a situation where that conflict does not exist for any player and believes building some form of free agency into national contracts will aid that.However, FICA warned that as lucrative as T20 cricket is for players it cannot prop up the whole game. Most countries rely on bilateral international cricket and the ICC for their income, while domestic cricket provides limited financial contributions. That means that in the short to medium-term domestic T20 cricket does not appear to be a viable alternative to support the entire economy of the global game. That could change in the long-term but as thing stand, domestic T20 leagues have to exist alongside international cricket.FICA would also like to see T20 cricket used as the vehicle to grow the game, a process it believes has stagnated because there is no documented clarity ... or viable pathway for Associate nations to enter into the current bilateral cricket framework. 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