T20 cricket is crap, and these stupid T20 tournaments popping up all around the world are rubbish. More test cricket please.So i gather the kiwis here don't like it.
I guess we could always have 1 franchise from namibia and 1 from zimbabwe.
Great call.T20 cricket is crap, and these stupid T20 tournaments popping up all around the world are rubbish. More test cricket please.
It doesn't bother me how much T20 cricket is played, as long as test cricket doesn't get cut back (there isn't enough test cricket as it is). The more of these stupid T20 tournaments popping up everywhere and the more chance we will see test cricket suffer.Great call.
Like it or not, T20 is here to stay. The game will generate no significant revenue if Tests were all that got played.
Adam Gilchrist summed things up perfectly in his Cowdrey lecture.
Yes Oram does play tests.Does jacob oram even play tests anymore,he may well be better off playing spl.
Don't have to play your international players in the spl,it heps but its not the be all or end of.
That's what I'd love to see.Why not just completely decouple T20's from other international cricket, shift the game to a series of agreeable International Premier leagues, (IPL,SPL, EPL) however many can be fit in a calendar year and then reduce International T20 matches to the one marquee t20 World cup ever 2/4 years? It would make T20 what it probably was meant to be in the first place. Cricket equivalent to Rugby sevens.
That would indeed overwhelmingly be the best course of action. However, it is pretty much OOTQ, given that those Twenty20 lovers want to see their team play Twenty20 instead of ODIs, and various people at the ICC Board want a Twenty20 World thingy. They are not in a sufficient minority for these things to be disposed of.Why not just completely decouple T20's from other international cricket, shift the game to a series of agreeable International Premier leagues, (IPL,SPL, EPL) however many can be fit in a calendar year and then reduce International T20 matches to the one marquee t20 World cup ever 2/4 years? It would make T20 what it probably was meant to be in the first place. Cricket equivalent to Rugby sevens.