ICC allows batting team to choose one Powerplay

[Uppercut]

Yeah, agree entirely. However, what irritates me is how people use bad-ODI-circumstance (ie, that) then say that Twenty20 is better because the best Twenty20 is supposedly more interesting, then get irate when people mention how rubbish Twenty20 often is when things don't go well in a Twenty20 game too.

I guess a bad T20 game wastes 3 hours of your life as opposed to 7. Really my preference for T20 is just a personal thing, i wouldn't try to pass it off as anything else, i just enjoy it more. Just as i enjoy tests over either.

 

[Migara]

As far as i am concerned this is one way the ICC can kill the unpredictability in the middle overs of an ODI game and this way the powerplay also fulfill a purpose, as you say spinners could be effected by this, then that's where a captain' tactics and how he rotates his bowlers, comes into play, imo it would make the game a bit more interesting, but then i guess its only me who thinks that way.

Completely disagree. The powerplays has killed the spinners. Pre-powerplay era, teams could manage with 2 seamers and 3 spinners, which is not possible now. It's very difficult to have even two spinners now in a side unless they are very good ones, and only SL and IND can enjoy that at the moment. The new rule will make even 2 spinners useless. Then it will be only one spinner. Taking spinners out of the game will make it less popular, as lots of big hits come from spinners as well as lots of mis-hits.

They should go back to the rule of new ball from each end.

 

[Uppercut]

Completely disagree. The powerplays has killed the spinners. Pre-powerplay era, teams could manage with 2 seamers and 3 spinners, which is not possible now. It's very difficult to have even two spinners now in a side unless they are very good ones, and only SL and IND can enjoy that at the moment. The new rule will make even 2 spinners useless. Then it will be only one spinner. Taking spinners out of the game will make it less popular, as lots of big hits come from spinners as well as lots of mis-hits.

They should go back to the rule of new ball from each end.

I thought spinners going out of the game is a bad thing?

 

[Richard]

Kinda guessing that last line is ironic and in fact pointing-out other things that could be done to kill spin in ODIs even more.

 

[Uppercut]

Thought that might be the case but it isn't written like that. I guess in Sri Lanka they have a sense of irony and sarcasm subtle enough to confuse even us.

 

[PhoenixFire]

I pretty much never watch any limited overs cricket, so it doesn't bother me.

 

[Richard]

Haha, wow, serious? Had honestly never noticed that before in the 100s of CW\MSN chats we've had.

 

[Migara]

Thought that might be the case but it isn't written like that. I guess in Sri Lanka they have a sense of irony and sarcasm subtle enough to confuse even us.

"Perhaps" at the begnning would have made it much clearer

 

[Uppercut]

Maybe. Everyone complains that British people's sense of sarcasm is really confusing and impossible to pick up on, so it feels a bit odd when it happens to us

 

[PhoenixFire]

Haha, wow, serious? Had honestly never noticed that before in the 100s of CW\MSN chats we've had.

Well I mean, I'll occasionaly flick over and watch if there is some domestic ListA stuff going on and maybe the odd international, but I'll never set myself out to go and watch one.

 

[tooextracool]

My belief is that ODI cricket has run its course and Twenty-20 is the new 'in-thing'. I dont think that overcomplicating the game of ODI cricket is going to change anything and if anything shows the dwindling interest in this format of the game.

Look at it this way. If 50-over cricket was invented after 20 -20 it would have been looked on as a complete joke and would not have had the extended success that it did because it is merely a cross between 20-20 and test cricket.

 

[Uppercut]

I wonder where it's fanbase is going to come from, it doesn't have an appeal that isn't replicated much better in another form of cricket.