Harsha Bhogle suggests:
This is an idea worth examining.
Here are a couple of more advantages to the one mentioned regarding the toss.
25 overs per innings will give the sides an opportunity to regain initiative and turn the game on its head. It will also create anticipation among the spectators on how teams will play in the second innings.
Compartmentalizing an ODI into bursts of two 25 overs innings each, will make the game faster. It is too short a time for batsmen to worry about a collapse and for a bowler to conserve his energy.
However, implementing it will erase the distinction between a T20 and a 50 overs game. The practical among us will say that 50 over game is nothing but two T20 games played on the same day.
How do you rate this idea?
The idea that appeals the most to me is, at some time in the future, to convert
50 overs cricket into two innings of 25 overs each.
Conditions
will be more even for both teams (the dew in a day-night game will affect both
teams since each will get 25 overs in the evening), the toss will give the
captain more to think about and the commercial side will be well taken care of.
It is an idea that has emerged from Australia and I first read of it in an
article by John Buchanan.
This is an idea worth examining.
Here are a couple of more advantages to the one mentioned regarding the toss.
25 overs per innings will give the sides an opportunity to regain initiative and turn the game on its head. It will also create anticipation among the spectators on how teams will play in the second innings.
Compartmentalizing an ODI into bursts of two 25 overs innings each, will make the game faster. It is too short a time for batsmen to worry about a collapse and for a bowler to conserve his energy.
However, implementing it will erase the distinction between a T20 and a 50 overs game. The practical among us will say that 50 over game is nothing but two T20 games played on the same day.
How do you rate this idea?
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