Do you think that T20 cricket has brought down level of quality cricket?

Question

Do you think that T20 cricket has brought down level of quality cricket?

Answer 1

I dont think it has brought the level of quality down as the players in it are amazing players, what i do think will happen is that Test Cricket will become a thing of the past and more focus will be placed on 20/20 cricket and One Day Internationals as people would be more interested in going to the 20/20 match as they only go for 3 hrs and alot of action goes on or one day as you only there for the day unlike test cricket which can go for 5 days and can be very boring. I love cricket and love going to a game but would admit that i would rather go to a one day match or T20 match over a 5 day test match due to the excitement the two matches bring.

Answer 2

You must be at least 50 years old, and yearning for good old days. Man grow up, things change all the time and if you do not change with time you will be left on the sidelines.

Answer 3

It's just a different form of cricket.It is fast,furious and entertaining.

Answer 4

Hasn't affected the quality of cricket...it is just a very differnt game.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Who cares about that my friend? no one is interested in all that except making money in whatever ways they can. People just think T20 as a time pass to sit and have snacks, spend some time with their friends probably girl friends. Some even think it is a show off. This is what happening. Let them go for it. But WE LOVE THIS GAME.

Answer 7

i dont think u can say the QUAILITY has gone down. i think 20-20 requires DIFFERENT skills to play effectively...players need to adapt properly between the different formats...i think 20-20 can be useful for improvement in death bowling...i mean the batsmans comng at u for all 20 overs. not just like the last 5 or 10 in odi's. its probably tougher on the batsmen especially if u play a test match after a 20-20, they may tend to go for more shots than necessary. but at the end of the day they're professionals and its their job to do adjust between the different formats so basically my answer is no, it doesnt bring down the quality, it just makes it harder to change from 5th gear to 1st gear for batsmen.....

Answer 8

Well, I think that most of the other answerer's would not agree with me, but I think that T20 has indeed lowered the standard of quality cricket. Tests are the true cricket matches, where pure art of the game is required, and the real skills of the players are put to test. T20 on the other hand is all about playing power shots, and a form of instant entertainment rather than true cricket. The skills of cricketers are never really judged accurately in T20s. That's why the big stars of T20 (like Yuvraj) often fail to perform in tests. Besides, T20 is quite unfair to the bowlers who get only a limited opportunity to show their skills. So, with the advent of T20, the class of those skilled test players may completely disappear. 50 over matches are perhaps a better option for providing entertainment than T20s.

Answer 9

No. T20 needs to be judged by an entirely different yardstick than F50 or Tests. The game requires skills and strategies/ tactics that are different from ODI/Test cricket. Just to show you that there is room for using a cricketing brain, take the following example.

Think ODI cricket. A team batting second, chasing a score of 300, will aim to keep wickets in hand until the 30th over, scoring 130-140 for the loss of no more than 3 wickets. This would leave them 20 overs to score 160-170 with 7 wickets in hand. If, for example, two wickets fall in the 30th over, then you will have two new batsmen at the crease to do this job. The chase would then be a most enthralling one, with the batsmen trying to get their eye in, up the scoring rate and prevent the loss of too many further wickets as they go about trying to get the 300 required for victory. A successful chase is enjoyed and remembered for a long time by the fans, while the bowlers who can successfully defend this total are given plaudits for possessing the skills to bowl at the death.

This is essentially what T20 cricket is about. The whole game is "chasing practice", one in which batsmen attempt to see whether they can score at 8 an over (or more) for 20 overs, and bowlers try to stop the batsmen from scoring so fast, and the fielding captain tries to set the right field to help his bowlers. The format cuts through the fluff and gets right down to business, sparing viewers the need to watch 5 extra hours of cricket.

Even within the 20 overs, strategies on rates of scoring and bowling changes are key. For example, a batting team first may decide to try to score 50 runs in the first 6 overs (during fielding restrictions), similar to Sri Lanka's strategy of trying to score 100 in 15 overs during the 96 World Cup. The batsman, having achieved this, will usually slow down, scoring another 35-40 runs in the next six while trying not to get out, taking the score to 85 or 90 in 12 overs. With wickets in hand, the batting team will then try to double this score by the 20th over, getting to 170-180 as a good, competitive score.

Bowlers will have to work out ways to disrupt the batmen's rhythm, take wickets at crucial times, and bowl well at the death to prevent the batting team from, say, doubling its score at the 12th over, trying, perhaps, to keep the score to a manageable 150-160.

Teams batting second will have a different set of strategies/tactics, designed to successfully chase totals on different pitches and weather conditions, while the bowlers will have to come up with yet more plans to defend their team's total and cope with, for example, dew and other impediments to bowling.

So, as you can see, a whole range of skills, strategies and techniques will crop up within a few years as the T20 format is played with more regularity, making it a proper game and one in which the fans can judge and appreciate the players' abilities by a yardstick not used before, because T20 is a different game to that of ODIs or Tests. Thus, it cannot be said that T20 "has brought down level of quality cricket", but instead brought a whole new dimension to the game of cricket, a paradigm shift if you will.

Answer 10

What made u think so?

Answer 11

Its a different game but if it played a lot more than Test and ODI, then it will affect the quality of cricket b/c any batsman can play well of his day.

Answer 12

No,it's a  different game,where  team effort matters even more.

Answer 13

No.....it's taking cricket to a higher level instead!

Answer 14

yes. cricket quality is decreased by T20 cricket. But give more entertainment to viewers. So many peoples are want only entertainment in short time. Enjoy T20 cricket.

Answer 15

no dear.

as u may have seen that after ODI test cricket is more interesting and u may seen that now u can get every match have some result. previously result was not frequuent. most of the game was drawn.

Now after T20 test will be much more richer and interesting and it also developing diffrent type of inovative shots which will help the test cricket.

thank u

Answer 16

yeah its all about slogging