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The short form of the game has come as a mixed blessing for cricket. It has attracted more people to the game and the…
I wouldn’t necessarily say that short-form cricket is the culprit, rather than it is the manifestation of the ideals the officials want cricket to focus on – those of slogging and lots of runs…. I would definitely call my article an overreaction (i wrote it as a “food for thought” kind of thing, i wanted to see how people actually feel about it all), but it is becoming a more common occurrence in test cricket.
Your last point is the kind of thing i would really like to see. I don’t necessarily want a bowler-dominated format, but i would like a format that rewards good bowling as well as good batting. The way it is currently is just too skewed towards batsman to make test cricket engaging as it once was.
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Good point. Looking at it that way, you can really see how much of a batsman’s game it has become. With the addition of all these new shots (paddles, reverses and scoops galore), and the further bowling restrictions, it seems only a matter of time until you have the strike/ball system implemented in the short-form.
Cricket has become too involved in its own marketing to the point that it has forgotten that it’s supposed to be a contest… It’ll be interesting to see how the day-night test goes too. It almost seems like the next step towards tests becoming extended ODIs.
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