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It’s a phrase we hear over and over again: ‘it’s the Twenty20 of (insert your favourite sport not named cricket here).’
Since the explosion in popularity and value of Twenty20 cricket, it seems like every sport wants to create their own equivalent in a bid to increase the profile of their own code and reap the financial rewards that inevitably follow.
While five-a-side football and rugby sevens have been around for a significant time, we’ve seen sports like tennis, golf, athletics, netball and now the AFL experiment with (or, in the AFL’s case, talk of experimenting with) introducing new short formats of their established games.
But are these abbreviated matches having a positive impact on their sports, or are they just creating more issues?
It’s an issue we’re going to be discussing on The Roar Podcast, and we want to hear what you think on the matter.
Do you think having multiple formats of one sport increases the fan- and player-base of that code, or do they simply compete against each other and cannibalise the existing audience?
One of the oft-criticisms of T20 cricket is it’s having a detrimental impact on our Test batting, with dour and defensive opening batsmen becoming rarer and rarer. So is the introduction of new skills brought about by shorter games – whether in cricket or another sport – helping the existing games evolve for the better, or are they ruining what we already have?
Throw your answers to those questions and any other points you’d like to make about short-format sports in the comments below, and we’ll discuss the best ones on the podcast.
The Roar Podcast will be dropping in early November, keep your eyes peeled on the site for more information in the coming weeks!