Do you all agree with K.Pietersen that 50 over game will become history?

Question

Is it the end of one day cricket

Answer 1

K.Pietersen is a smart man, kudos to him. He was shrewd enough to observe the TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION of our great nation toward 20-20. He saw the ovation and tremendous crowd response worldwide (with the exception of understandable jealousy of a defeated nation) to IPL. He has foresight and may be right. Let us wait and see what future holds.

Answer 2

NO, I am not agree with K.Pietersen. current time i agree T20 cricket version is very famous but odi is the most compulsory version of cricket bcoz in this version we found who is batsman & bowlers. in odi's version complete & more time for batsman & bowler performance about t20.

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

No..I don't agree with K.P's observations at all...

There are too many who love and enjoy playing ODI's..

I for 1 love watching a good 50 over match...

Kevin Pieterson is only 1 man and i have not heard any other cricketer coming out with this comment..

No ODI's have to stay....

Answer 5

Sure, the same way tests have become extinct after the invention of ODIs!!!!!!

It is an opinion and needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Answer 6

K.P is absolutely right and even the boring test cricket has to go.

K.P no doubt is a brave guy and hats off to him.

Answer 7

England ace batsman,..Kevin is seeing day dreams ..Lol~

as someone say,.."ODI's have to stay....!!

Answer 8

In a way yes. I think 50 over cricket will be modified to 40 overs. 40 over cricket seems to be a real big change to people who have seen it, and i havn't heard any person who has watched a game of 40 over cricket claim that 50 over is better.

Even Shane Warne said he thinks that 50 over cricket should become 40 overs.

For me i want to actually see a 40 over match before i judge it. BUt in relation to your question, i think that 50 over cricket is here to stay but will be modified and therefore won't really be 50 over cricket. If i make any sense lol.

Answer 9

Agree with KP.

T20 is very interesting. ODI may be replaced.

Answer 10

20/20 is cricket at its commonest,  hit them fast and get it all over with.   I only hope that it is just a techinical blip that rights itself soon.

Answer 11

I don't understand why he said that when he just had his 6th 100's in ODI, he is one of the one day international player who has the higher rate of runs than the others..  but t answer yur question, no I dont agree with KP

Answer 12

That would be really sad. Cricket is the only sport in the world that can boast having as many as 3 formats to suit everyone's taste. (Only other sport with 2 significantly different formats seems to be Rugby Union, which has a fifteen-a-side 80 minute/game version, and a shorter 7-a-side game). However, with the fixture calendar already congested before the advent of the T20 format, there is now a reason to actually reduce the number of games of a particular format, unless T20 cricket is "decoupled" from the other forms and played by players who do not play Tests or ODI (kind of like football and futsal), or exist in parallel as a separate "code", like Rugby Union and Rugby League. Seeing that this is unlikey to happen, one assumes that the ICC will retain control and the same players will play all three formats (unless individual boards decide to pick entirely different teams for the different formats).

Back to your question. Firstly, ODI cricket cannot die overnight. The bids for 2011, 2015 and 2019 World Cups have already been made, and the would be hosts announced (subcontinent in 2011, NZ and Australia in 2015 and England in 2019). Plus, the ICC and most boards have already sold TV and Internet broadcasting rights for most events (World Cups, Champions Trophy, Asia Cup etc) until 2015. So, as far as the hosting of these events go, "the show must go on" as the terms of the contracts need to be discharged.

Plus, the current Future Tours Programme incorporates both Test and ODI series to be played between the 10 Test playing nations until 2012. Rights for these have been sold by the individual cricket boards already and stadia are being prepared to host the appropriate events/matches.

When ODI cricket was new on the scene, everyone predicted the demise of Test cricket. Instead, Test cricket became a better sport because of the increasing standards of fitness and fielding, faster scoring rates leading to more results, and better marketing strategies (learnt from the ODI version), applied to the game. It is possible that T20 wil augment ODIs in a similar way, such that the appeal of ODIs will increase and people will want to preserve the format as an enjoyable yet technically more demanding version than T20.

That said, T20 will itself develop as a game over the next 10 years. Between 1963 and 2008, limited overs cricket has become a much more sophisticated game. In the 1960s, the 65-over-a-side games were considered "hit and giggle", yet the standards of a 50-over game nowadays are far higher than may be expected from the reduction in the number of overs. So, a reduction to 20 overs, although now seen as a "hit and giggle" affair, will not necessarily signal the end of cricket as a serious sport. With the kind of money on offer, professionals (players and coaches) will always try to work out the best way to defeat the opposition by tactical awareness and not plain "agricultural shot making". This is true for all sports and all versions of cricket. Give some players a multi-million dollar professional contract, whether it is for a 10-over a side game or a 5 day Test match, the over-arching desire will still be to win and not merely to entertain. In this way, T20 will, in about 10 years time, become a proper "sport" and not simply "family entertainment". Plus, if it achieves success in China and the USA, people will have to take it seriously as there will be an emergence of new "cricketing powers" due to investments in infrastructure and player development in hitherto cricketing backwaters.

What this means is that, by the time of the 2019 World Cup (ODI), T20 will be highly-polished sport, a "finished article" waiting to be mass-marketed. This could then mean the end of the road for ODIs, as it will be seen to have outlived its relevance. Possibly, ODI cricket will die peacefully in 2019 (after the World Cup), meaning that the year of singular dominance of the 20-20 format will be, fittingly, if coincidentally, will be from 2020 onwards.

So although Kevin Pietersen's assertion that ODIs will become history may not be true in the immediate future, it is likely to be the case in the long-run.

Answer 13

K.P is right.

Answer 14

Kevin Pietersen is one of my most favourite players but I can not agree with him on this point. I am feeling sad for it.