Bowlers are always restricted strictly with field placement. Most of the fieldsmen should stand within a near circle and two or three can stand on the boundary line. Next, the wicket prepared for one day matches mainly suits for batsmen (mainly in india) where the ball does not bounce more than knee height and batsmen are fearless to swing their bat at their free will. The poor great bowlers even find it difficult to restrain a mediocar batsman in such tournament. as bowlers are handicapped with strict rules of one day, twenty twenty games. To make cricket popular we shall not forget the great contribution of CHANNEL NINE OF AUSTRALIA WHICH WAS NAMED PAJAMA CRICKET AND CARRY PACKER BECAME FAMOUS. But that is all. Thereafter Indian board utilised this limited over games more popular and crowd pulling evenwith stiff price of the ticket by inviting so many indecent factors on cricket ground. and went on looting huge money and made the cricket a great circus.
Good... God proposes, board refuses.. Nice slap on this guy who can no more bat or field for 50 overs continuously and hence proposed these changes. The hidden agenda was to extend his career for few more years if ICC decides to adopt this 25 over innings proposal!!
Its actually a good idea however the down side is we would be creating a mix between test cricket and ODI to fit a single day or two days. In my opinion this would probably make the use of Test Cricket and ODI both a havoc. I agree with the ICC. There is no real need to change the format.
However, I do agree that 50 Over cricket is getting boring too.
Why not have 1st inning of maximum 100 Overs, and second inning as it is in existing rule, This should increase the possibility of result instead of draw
Re: Change Test format
by Shivam Parikh on Sep 21, 2011 03:15 PM
Too long. The idea is to shorten the fatigue that players end up with after long bouts on the field. Sachin's suggestion is to try to minimize the time that each time has to stay on the field in the heat. By the time the fielding first team bats, their openers are tired (a bit).
As mentioned, I don't agree with the idea though I do agree that the opening of 20-20 has caused major downside to both test and 50 over cricket. If you see cricket matches of 50 overs - the stadiums go unsold. Test Cricket stands are empty unless free tickets are given. The actual earnings from live stadium audience is none. Everything is tv ads now. Question is how many viewers will continue to watch 50 over matches on tv vs. 20-20.
Somewhere old test cricket and 50 overs should never have been replaced with 20-20. The game of cricket is becoming more entertaining in 20-20 but records, history and the real sport is changing too much.
