Head and shoulders above: Why Trav is the key to Australia's T20 World Cup success
In just under three weeks, the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup will commence in Texas as the United States face off against Canada in…
Every now and then an article will appear on The Roar, which discusses how one day cricket is dying and how it should be banished from the international cricket scene.
I don’t like these articles because I believe that one day cricket has a place in international cricket and deserves to stay.
Now I will admit, I do sometimes (but very rarely) find them a bit boring at times. Although I’ll watch a Test match from start to finish, I still can’t watch an ODI for the entire day.
It adds something more that T20 cricket doesn’t. Test cricket is a patience game, while T20 is hit out or get out. One day cricket adds a good mix between aggression and defence. Building a solid innings but not taking ages to do so helps develop important skills for both Test and T20 cricket.
So instead of bagging the 50 over game, I’ve come up with a solution. England unlike Australia, don’t have a 50-over domestic competition. Instead they only have 40 overs per side.
Why don’t we take off 10 overs each and do the same?
It would mean more aggressive play that could bring in more people to the games, which have suffered disappointing crowds recently.
It would be more exciting for the T20 fans that love seeing their heroes smashing sixes to all parts of the ground. It would also involve a little more patience and the need to build pressure.
A lot of people say that there is no need for the one day format. I think there is, as long as we tweak it a little.
If there were only two formats of cricket (test and T20) it would be too big of a gap between the traditional game played across five days, to the big hitting game played in three hours.
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