Feralballer

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A lot of boring draws (or boring wins for that matter) originate from the first team batting piling on a huge score (of 500+) which makes it highly unlikely that the second team can win the contest. Instead the second team bats for survival. Which means they bat for time, to grind out a draw. Boring, boring, boring. There are exceptions of course, such as India’s fightback win over Aust in 2001, but these are quite unusual – we have to put up with a lot of boring matches to be open to such rare contests.

The tweak I am suggesting is to cap the number of overs in the first innings of each team to just 100 overs – roughly one day’s play. The first team still has the option of batting for as long as it wishes (or is able to) in the second innings. People moan about what you lose with rule changes, which is fair enough. But I ask that they also consider fresh contests can be gained by such a rule change.

It's time to take a baseball bat to Test cricket

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