Cricket is a great game, but like any sport it could always do with some improvements.
These are five ways to improve the sport of cricket.
1. Remove DRS
Sometimes in sport you get a howler. Sometimes the howler is for you, sometimes against you. It’s all part of sport. At the moment, the world has accepted DRS but India haven’t.
You cant run a sport with rules for some and not for others. But India in this instance are right – the DRS is not needed. Accept the umpire’s decision like it always has been.
They tend to even themselves out naturally over a career. If you get a howler, live with it. You weren’t the first and won’t be the last.
2. Make 50 over cricket extinct
Does anyone get truly excited about this format anymore? People still go for a family day out. Players still play it cause it brings money into their pockets. But the days where Dean Jones would walk out on to the MCG and 70,000 Victorians would go crazy for the Australian number three are long gone.
Now there would be 20,000 people standing to stretch their legs. Cricket needs a long format and a short format – not one in between.
3. Introduce two tiers for Test cricket
This has been put forward by a few different people. But to have a top six and a bottom six playing each other will mean the ‘Test’ stays in Test cricket.
What the West Indies produced in Hobart and the first two days in Melbourne was anything but Test cricket. They need to play nations that are their level, like Bangadesh and Zimbabwe.
4. Less cricket
No more meaningless one day tournaments and don’t overdo T20 cricket. Reduce the workload and the amount of cricket played. Cricket has fallen victim to those wanting to make a lot of money from the sport.
In 2001 when Australian toured India, the stadiums were full. India’s crowds have fallen dramatically since then. There needs to be an effort to get these people back to Test cricket.
5. More grass on pitches
We need to help the bowlers a little more. A few more green tops, especially in Australia wouldn’t hurt.
The WACA is a good example. It’s sad to see a pitch, that was the quickest in the world in the 70s to the 90s, now become a normal strip.
Someone find a way to get that old pitch back.
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