How Will T20 and Tests Be Balanced In Cricket Schedule?

[hawkeye]

Will T20 soon be Cricket's Most Important Format?

We are now experiencing what will be a long season of cricket?s briefest version. After the current ICC World T20 in Bangladesh it will be time again for the Indian Premier League, and so lovers of this format will have much to feast on, while those who detest it might consider a kind of cricket fast until all the razzmatazz and six-hitting comes to a pause.

Those of us who prefer our T20 cricket in relatively small doses will pick and choose which games to watch, when to tune in and tune out, as the marathon task of following every game will be much too taxing for most.

This is not only due to the scepticism in which some hold T20 cricket. Had it not been for the high drama generated, and the absorbing pace bowling of Mitchell Johnson during the Australian leg, back-to-back Ashes series would surely have tested the patience of many ardent fans; 35 WT20 matches, followed soon afterwards by 60 IPL games is a lot to consume in such a short spell.

Will Tests Have To Give More Ground To T20?

 

[PokerAce]

Will T20 soon be Cricket's Most Important Format?


Will Tests Have To Give More Ground To T20?

No I like T20 as a form of entertainment, but there is no way T20 can ever be the most Important format of Cricket. Well suppose it may one day be, but that will be a disaster.

That will be the equivalent of shrinking Tennis matches down from 5 sets to just three games, and that format become the most important format of tennis. That would be a disaster and so would T20 becoming the most important format of cricket.

I do enjoy T20 for what it is worth and the entertainment, but there is no way T20 can replace Test Cricket as the ultimate form of cricket. In a test cricket, the batsman, bowlers and the captain is tested on so many levels that T20 cannot ever provide.

 

[Epic]

How Will T20 and Tests Be Balanced In Cricket Schedule?

The real question is how will ODIs and T20Is be balanced, because they're doing a horrendous job of that.

Will T20 soon be Cricket's Most Important Format?

No, but the most profitable.

Will Tests Have To Give More Ground To T20?

No, but ODIs will.

 

[Ohm]

Remove TT series, arrange world cups each year or two, host premier leagues for profit and let give our legendary format(test) some freedom.