ODI cricket has its own place, says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sourav-Chandidas-Ganguly-c90746 – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s former Captain and batting legend, Sourav Ganguly, feels that the One Day International (ODI) cricket has its own place under the sport and that its format should remain unchanged, despite Sachin Tendulkar’s efforts to refurbish the set-up into 4
innings.
Ganguly, who is more famously known as ‘http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607’s proposition to break-down the current ODI format into 4 innings of 25 overs each, is far from being implemented on the international circle, and does not even have a place under domestic cricket.
“There is no opportunity for this new format in Indian domestic cricket because there is lot of cricket. They play four-day, five-day, one-day, Twenty20, and then get ready for IPL (Indian Premier League). They play a lot of cricket, so I don’t think they
need another one for competition,” said Ganguly.
In a letter to the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haroon-Lorgat-c61719, Tendulkar cited his proposition to revamp the ODI format, which according to the Master Blaster, was fading in light of the rising fame of Twenty20 (T20) cricket.
In his proposition, Tendulkar felt that the original 50-overs aside setting of ODI cricket should be broken down to 25 overs, which would be played in 4 innings. The batter also recommended that the ICC should overhaul the shuffling of Powerplays.
Having said the above, the ICC turned down all recommendations put forward by Sachin and opted to support the current format.
However, for Ganguly’s recent comments, the batsman, who played 113 Tests and 311 ODIs for India between 1996 and 2008, said “I agreed with Sachin on a lot of things but at this stage having two 25 overs innings is like a T20 (Twenty20). After a certain
stage T20 does get boring. If you ask the best players in the world they say they want to play Test cricket.”
Dada further commented on the matter, stating that he still feels that a lot of talent and cricketing skills are required to play the current ODI format, and that it has gained a lot of fame over the years but is confident that the game will last for good.
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