If BCCI wouldn't have acted on suggestion then he would have said 'will the real BCCI standup?'.
Tell us what loss is going to happen to Indian cricket by this? Loss of interest?, who watches U-15, U-17? Within few months we will have test series in Aus. Dear author you will see the 5 day matches not taking much more than a day to end and that should provide you all the excitement you are craving for. Don't you then come back home crying. Vikram Melbourne
The recent move by BCCI to ban One-Day matches for under-17 cricketers really defies logic. ODI matches are here to stay forever as they are favored by the majority in today's spectators. This 'silly' ban is probably going to hurt Indian cricket in the long run.
Since it will be difficult for youngsters to adjust to the shorter format, if they have little exposure to One-Days in their formative years.
BCCI should not be unnecessarily nostalgic and let spinners adapt to the reality of the 21st century. In fact, Warne,Harbhajan,Murali and Kumble have proven that they can hold their own in ODI tournaments also(especially on spin-conducive wickets) !
Interestingly this ban comes at a time when the majority of cricket fans all over the world prefer ODI over Test matches.In fact the English County is currently experimenting with a new 20-over tournament.
Increasingly ,with a faster pace of life, getting time to watch any game is proving more difficult. Hence, it is fair to predict that shorter duration matches become more popular in the future. BCCI should wake up to this reality!
Rediff has consistently done well to cover cricket from a rational standpoint. These so called greats have gone nuts. If the rest of the world bats like they do in one dayers and our bowlers keep flighting it, Indian cricket will go for a six. Bedi kept hyping a guy called Sanghvi just because he flights well and loops well. Hello...where are the wickets to show? The same system produced Laxam Sivaramakrishnan, Bhajji and Kumble. The answer lies in adapting to ODI and not banning it. Look ate Warne's bowling in ODIs. It is amazing that he manages to still spin and drift the ball in the slog overs. A good bowler is one who takes wickets and not the one who flights it well.
It's so mundane to see these clumsy articles being regularly published for name-sake news with totally illogical assumptions and hollow arguments masked in the rhythm of logic. If these sub-standard articles are going to be kept published, rediff.com is going to lose a lot of traffic. Wish there is better competition for the indian portals.
Perhaps the next panel they cook up will be a bunch of batsmen who will say that all bowlers in under 17 tournaments should not be allowed to turn the ball or move it in the air!! Cricketers in this age group should be encouraged to play as much cricket as they can, to develop and discover their talents. What is going to happen with this move? We'll have a bunch of next generation spinners who toss the ball in the air and get hammered by players from countries like Australia. In 10 years there wont be places for 'specialist' cricketers in one day cricket. Each player would have to bat and bowl to a certain level apart from being an outstanding fielder. The board should be looking at picking these kinds of players, packing an 'A' team with them and sending them off on tours all over the world. Indian cricket is going the opposite way from the aussies, if they are teaching their batsmen to be more aggressive, were doing the opposite. I remember how Rahul Dravid was dropped because he was content to 'hold back his strokes'. Instead of making it more exciting, this would only move the way back to how it was in the 70's...boring.
For the sake of writing an article and to make news of anything the writer had wrote this one. He himself has said "In any case, here's a point to ponder. There is no under-15 and under-17 one-day tournament in the country today. So what is the ban all about? " at the end of it. Since the annoucement makes the decision so no issue , why the hell is the article for?
Bhishen Bedi and Prasanna may be wondeful players during their days. But, they are highly critical of present day players. Specially Bedi just rubbishes many except Tendulkar. Muralitharan and Ganguly are the best examples. Even if it is ur personal opinion please mend ur ways
