Cricket, once a game where the noblest of men plied their trade in the spirit of sport, is on death-row and may never recover. Following the decision this month to scale back the ICC World Cup to ten teams, coupled with the states mulling over whether to allow Indian cricket fanatics to invest in our new Twenty20 competition, cricket is now in big trouble.
Cricket is sacrificing its organs in the hope of saving its brain without forgetting it needs organs to survive.
Cricket Australia, like most cricket boards, is putting all its time and effort into Twenty20 in the hope that it will attract fans to its matches.
However, this policy is like an old school adage – it’s bringing in fake friends who only care for it because of its popularity and driving the real loving friends away who have always supported it.
James Sutherland claims that Twenty20 cricket is attracting the under 30 category to the sport. Does the CEO of Cricket Australia make this up?
Nearly every under 30 person I speak to has more affinity with Test cricket. While enjoying Twenty20, there is no doubt to these people that a good Test will beat any other form of cricket.
Twenty20 Cricket is like a person who has had cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance. They look fantastic but you know that it’s all fake and has no real depth to it.
It should never have been allowed to become part of the international calendar. Rather, it should have been restricted to provincial sides trying to make some money to offset the Shield and ODI Cup
However, as is the nature of the ICC, they allowed the dollar to seduce their eyes and bastardise their sport (Allen Stanford, Lalit Modi). I understand that some major sports have been seduced by the corporate dollar to shorten their sports.
However, never have sports like tennis, basketball or rugby union allowed the popularity of their shorter forms hurt their traditions and their mainstream fanbase. Cricket has done the exact opposite and compromised their traditions something unthinkable in a well run sport.
I would laugh at the cricket administrators if my heart did not bleed from watching the game die.
These, I believe, will be the last Ashes in Australia without Twenty20 leagues compromising the availability of players. Watch the game suffocate in a room of ego and money.
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