In odi's you get less fielders inside the circle in the last few overs if you are behind. There are actual match consequences. Also the overs will still get bowled, not lost like test cricket so there is no real advantage of being slow.
Given what pink balls do under the lights, it would make over rates even slower as teams tried to get as many overs in with that ball instead of the red one.
How about, and hear me out here as I might be spouting insane nonsense, starting before 11 AM ****ing local time during the English ****ing summer, the ****ing dull *****.
Actually all they need to do is play till 7 or 7:30 when there is ample sunlight usually.
Exactly, I used to play in a midweek league where games didn't even start before 6pm. There's perfectly good daylight in an English Summer to well after 9pm.
Because they're human beings? Can't keep them out there playing 24 hours for our entertainment, no matter how much you pay them and the support staff associated with conducting the game.
Its the local TV stations..we used to play till overs was done or bad light took over. Some Aussie stations had a big moan about it during a SA vs Aus series and the ICC changed it.
Bowl their overs in time then they don't have to stay out there. Sounds like a good incentive to me.
I would add big run penalties to it. Then they can decide if bowling with the pink ball is worth giving up 50 runs.
Starting early in some places are a problem due to dew.
Literally no one has suggested this absolute strawman of an argument you're knocking down.
Giant hot fans, lol.
You could play from 5am to 9pm in England in the Summer. Bigger issues seem to be in places like Pakistan where the light goes by 5.30pm.
The question is why we have a cut off. The answer to that is that the game has to end at some time, people have to go home. Not even anything to do with TV deals. Cricket has always had a scheduled end of play for common sense purposes.
But the scheduled end of play would normally guarantee at least 90 overs. Now it doesn't, but would it be so hard to make that the cut off? It would normally only add 30 mins or so.
So why is getting through the required number of overs before this cutoff (or at least reasonably close to that cutoff), not a problem in ODIs, in which there's actually more overs scheduled in the day?
the poors don't watch cricket so its fine
Teams are given 3.5 hours to bowl 50 overs in ODI's (they generally go 15 mins over). They're really not going any faster there than in Tests.
