my mission to save test cricket ! :)

[AARRONN]

hey guys!
i was just sitting down watching tv.. cricket ofcourse!!
mainly the recent test series between australia and india..
go the aussies!! even though we got hammered ...
anyway back to what i was saying... i was wathing the 2nd test match and thought about how different twenty20 and test are...
and how many people love twenty20
(idiots! you don't know what real cricket is)
and i thought what would happen if test cricket... stop being played because of lack of crowds and support??!!

so i decide to try and come up with a way to save test cricket.....

GET RID OF twenty20... is terrible!
its ruining cricket and giving new comers the wrong idea...
they think its all about 6s and cheerleaders?!?!?!
give it 10 years and there will be no such thing as a test match..
let alone a dot ball!!!!!!!!!!!!! or a great days cricket!!!!!!!!!.........
(get it because twenty20 played at night.......) lol sorry bad joke!

well anyway i think the ICC should make some changes to some forms of games....
here are my suggestions:

TEST
finalize test a little more....
(by making it 30 overs a session instead of how many over get bowled)
2 innings per side | 30 overs per session | 3 sessions a day | 5 days!
(450 overs in total)

okay yeah simple... but keep reading because this is what i think will be the form of the game that will save cricket!
wait for it.....

2DAY CRICKET
instead of 20twenty!... i got rid of the 0 and twenty out of "20twenty"
and put day :laugh.. sorry another lame joke...
+ if players perform well in this they get promoted to test team!
2 innings per side | 30 overs per session | 3 sessions a day | 2 days
(180 overs in total)

what i like about 2day cricket is that it will still have a test felling to it
but for people that think test are to "slow"??
Might like it as the game would generally go faster.

what you guys think? it will generally have fast run rates say around 3 - 5ish
because there are 2 innings to be played per side...

ONE-DAY (50 overs)
yes!!...still keep one-days! there great for the game
but yeah get rid of twenty20!!!
(yes i said it again!)
you may like it! but lets be honest..........
can you imagine a don bradman playing a twenty20??
so yeah
1 innings per side | 50 overs per side | 1 day
+ they should also try 50 overs and 2 innings per side...
but then i think that might clash with 2day cricket...?
so i reckon give 2day cricket a go and see what happens...??

what do you guys think??

 

[khalek]

I just love your ideas, well done mate

 

[SaiSrini]

Twenty20 is to cater to all those baseball, basketball, rugby and other sports fans where the duration of the sport is a few hrs (2 hrs or so). Twenty20 at 3 hrs gets closest to those sports in terms of attention span. People's attention spans are shrinking rapidly and test and ODI cricket are finding it hard to keep up with the shrinking attention of people. If someone can take care of that, test and ODI cricket can survive.

Giving test cricket more meaning is a way to go. Have a test world championship where the teams play for a big prize would be good. And that playoff event should be given hugeeeeee coverage and it should be glitzy and glamorous as much as possible. IT SHOULD BE THE ULTIMATE PRIZE FOR EVERY CRICKETER! Improve the pitches and make sure dull flat pancakes are not made for test matches. These can reduce the effect of shrinking audiences to a good extent. But Twenty20 wont be gotten rid of. Anything that brings with it huge money cannot be destroyed (SADLY!).

 

[afridi118]

base ball takes two hours loal baseball can take up to 5 hours too and american football can go longer than 3 hours.

nice ideas thoug but dont get rid of t20s just make it 1 per series or 3 per year per team
as many who dont watch test cricket watch t20s as its fast and they later start watching tests.

 

[-D-S-B-]

I like your enthusiasm AARRONN from AUSSSTRRAALIIAAA!!!!!

 

[sohum]

can you imagine a don bradman playing a twenty20??

Same argument goes for one-dayers, too, doesn't it?

While I would be more in favor of structuring the sessions, or rather, introducing in-game penalties for not hitting the required number of overs in a day. Right now, it's just a fine for the captain + team, I'd be in favor of adding penalty runs if you aren't on track at the end of a session.

2-day cricket--I'm sorry but that's very silly. 2-day Test matches will almost never end in a result--as witnessed by 2-day FC games that generally end up with about 2.5 innings being completed. What incentive would there be to score quicker? The only way this would have any hope of working is if you put a limit on the number of overs a side can play (45 overs?) with you getting the rest of the overs added to the number of overs you can bat if you bowl the other team out.

 

[Ollie_H]

The only way this would have any hope of working is if you put a limit on the number of overs a side can play (45 overs?) with you getting the rest of the overs added to the number of overs you can bat if you bowl the other team out.

The 2 day cricket is usually done for friendlies at the beginning of the English domestic season with a 60/40 split. I think with 2 innings, so on Day 1 Team A bats for 60 overs & then Team B bats for 40. And on Day 2, Team A bat for another 40, and then Team B have 60 overs to chase down the combined total. If you get what I'm trying to say? Each day is taken as a separate innings so in effect it is a regulated multi-day game.

 

[sami ullah khan]

Why do we need to fix something that is not broken? Test cricket is alive and kicking IMHO. A few recent series are testament to that fact.

 

[AARRONN]

I like your enthusiasm AARRONN from AUSSSTRRAALIIAAA!!!!!

looooooooooooooooooooolllllllll, thhhhhhhhhhhankkkkkkkks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AARRONN added 7 Minutes and 49 Seconds later...

Why do we need to fix something that is not broken? Test cricket is alive and kicking IMHO. A few recent series are testament to that fact.

agreed! a great example is Australia vs India in the 1st test! that was a thriller!
anyways thanks for the replies guys!

 

[AngryPixel]

Test cricket doesn't need any changes at all. Only thing we need to change is these frigging administrators. India-Aus, India-SAF, etc should be playing 5 test series not this 2 test crap.(Even though both matches were great but i and a lot of fans were left wanting for more of this kinda spirited cricket).

I guess there should be Elite and Plate levels in International level too. India,SAF,Aus,England, SL should be playing in ELITE group and NZ,BNG,WI,ZIM,PAK should be playing in PLATE group. Team topping the PLATE group should be promoted to ELITE group and similarly team at the bottom of ELITE group should be relegated to PLATE. That would result in more competitive games IMO

 

[rosewt02]

Liking the ideas but in ten years there won't be such a thing as even t20, it will be two over cricket!

 

[relentless_rock]

hey guys!

so i decide to try and come up with a way to save test cricket.....

GET RID OF twenty20... is terrible!

here are my suggestions:

TEST
finalize test a little more....
(by making it 30 overs a session instead of how many over get bowled)
2 innings per side | 30 overs per session | 3 sessions a day | 5 days!
(450 overs in total)

okay yeah simple... but keep reading because this is what i think will be the form of the game that will save cricket!
wait for it.....

2DAY CRICKET
+ if players perform well in this they get promoted to test team!
2 innings per side | 30 overs per session | 3 sessions a day | 2 days
(180 overs in total)

Might like it as the game would generally go faster.

what you guys think? it will generally have fast run rates say around 3 - 5ish
because there are 2 innings to be played per side...

what do you guys think??

Buddy, i appreciate your love for test cricket. As for your suggestions.. 2 days 2 innings game??.. how is that going to help? You hardly see any results in 3/4 days games.

I believe success of 20-20 cricket has pulled more crowds in, cricket has a much bigger market to cater to, Test cricket has benefited with more results. Rather ODIs are under threat and in dire need to reinvent.

 

[sohum]

The 2 day cricket is usually done for friendlies at the beginning of the English domestic season with a 60/40 split. I think with 2 innings, so on Day 1 Team A bats for 60 overs & then Team B bats for 40. And on Day 2, Team A bat for another 40, and then Team B have 60 overs to chase down the combined total. If you get what I'm trying to say? Each day is taken as a separate innings so in effect it is a regulated multi-day game.

That's an interesting format but I'm not sure if it would catch on. What happens if you are bowled out before the completion of your overs. For any sort of 2-day short-format cricket to succeed there'll have to be no draws. The team that scores the most number of runs total will win the game. There will be an incentive to take wickets (instead of limiting runs) if you get additional overs to bat.

Anyways, I think something like this would be two convoluted to achieve. We haven't yet moved to 2-innings games over 1 day (which is being trialed in Australia, right?) so this would be a step in a very strange direction.

 

[Ollie_H]

What happens if you are bowled out before the completion of your overs.

Honestly, I have no idea. Lemme have a look and see what I can find tomorrow.

 

[Dipak]

Tests can be exciting but people don't have to time to watch it, even the desperate fans, usually I miss half test match becuase of school. Test can e really exciting and keeps the spirit of the game. The 1st Ind Aus Test, in the final overs, I nearly finished all of my nails of...