Future Of Cricket
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008If cricket pundits are the ones to be believed than the future of cricket lies in 20-20(T-20) cricket. Test match is way too long to be introduced in a new nation like USA or China and 50 over match also takes entire day to be played. For nations which are already playing cricket internationally 50 over game is the one to stay. regardless of it being deemed as the future people have been more often than not quoted saying T-20 is only a way of making money .boards have been making a tons of money and so have been the players and the true form of cricket is test cricket only. we all have been hearing about IPL for so long ,an Indian cricketer M.S. Dhoni has earned about $1.5 million for just 14 days of cricket . in these 14 days he would be playing about 120 minutes per match or to take it into perspective if he is supposed to play 24 hours a day he would earn this $1.5 million in a day only .not many people in the world make that much of money.
But still one has to take into account that test matches have been played for over a century now and this procedure was formulated way back. The format needs to be changed. Probably changed to limited overs say 100 overs per team. This time will be enough for the bowling team to get opposition out and similarly would be enough for the batting team to score 400 runs. Not only this will bring excitement to matches but also guarantee a result and these two factors might be able to pull some crowds in ground at least in the closing days of test match. as far as 50 over game is considered it needs to be shortened as well, say 40 overs and a time limit of 3 hours per innings.
at least cricket organizers should give some thought to this scenario otherwise it won’t be far when T-20 will take over the cricket and like INDIA all nations would start operating cricket leagues and it would get hard for boards to find players to play in international fixtures