Back when this blog was relatively unknown, news broke out about the possible inclusion of cricket in the Olympics.
I posted it on my blog along with my opinion on which format was apt for the Olympics.
This set of a series of comments and Soulberry, the father figure to most Indian cricket bloggers generously posted it in the BBC very own 606.
The majority felt that the ODI’s was the apt format. However, some insisted that Test matches were the way to go. Interestingly, the Twenty20 was never in the picture.
We are all familiar with the eventual turn of the events. Twenty20 took the world cricket by storm and even a traditionalist like the former Australian wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has pushed for the inclusion of Twenty20 cricket in the Olympics from 2020.
This gives me a pause to wonder how we ignored the aptness of the Twenty20 format. If there is one format of the game that appears to suit the Olympics to a T, it is undoubtedly Twenty20.
Are there any naysayers?
1 comment:
Yay yay... is there any chance of cricket being included for the next one.
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