What Next For ODI Cricket?

[Pratters]

These are trying times. I believe ODIs still have a place though they should be lesser in number.

What to do about the middle overs which get boring?

Matt79 raised a few points in a thread earlier and I don't think we will not see changes in ODI cricket. The middle overs are a pain in the ass and some thing new has to come up to solve this issue.

What do you believe should happen?

What might happen -

The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Sports | ICC plans to try Sachin formula

 

[Uppercut]

Make bowling restrictions less harsh. I'm sick of fascinating Bond vs. Dravid battles being cut short so Vettori can get through some Ian ****ing Butler overs. Never again do I ever wish to see batsmen milking Michael Clarke and Paul Collingwood for three singles to long off each over. 40 overs, 20 overs of powerplays, 4 bowlers bowl a maximum of ten overs each.

 

[sledger]

Don't think anything drastic needs to happen to be honest. For me personally it is not a broken format. The only thing that needs to be reviewed are the amount of games played. 7 match series are far too long, and in many cases (as in all probability with the Eng vs Aus series going on at the moment) leaves the very realistic possibility of having 3 pointless games left at the end. Need to get rid of the pointless Champions Trophy as well, with the T20 international competitions around there really is no need for this anymore.

 

[Cruxdude]

When I first heard of Tendulkar's plan, I thought he meant the innings is being split into two halves (ie they are not two fresh innings but just a continuation). I think this could well make the middle overs pretty interesting.

Teams might need to accelerate to catch up with the other teams score. This would bring in some nice tactics. Maybe the batting order would be shuffled around where we have tailenders coming up the order near the end of the first 25 overs to protect specialist batsmen for the 2nd innings.

If this is what they are implementing then I am all for it. If it is two fresh innings, no sir there are enough 20-20s going around.

 

[Pratters]

Make bowling restrictions less harsh. I'm sick of fascinating Bond vs. Dravid battles being cut short so Vettori can get through some Ian ****ing Butler overs. Never again do I ever wish to see batsmen milking Michael Clarke and Paul Collingwood for three singles to long off each over. 40 overs, 20 overs of powerplays, 4 bowlers bowl a maximum of ten overs each.

That sounds good. I love the idea of removing the 5th bowler. Remove him and even a 50 over game (say 48 over game) would be exciting.

 

[Glacier]

Is it just me or were ODIs not that boring these past couple of years or so? Obviously this recent England-Australia series has been atrocious but other then that a lot of the series I've watched have been much better.

Pak/Aus Abu Dhabi
Ind in WI
Pak in SL
SL in Pak(if only for a superb spell of bowling in the 3rd match)
SA in Aus
Aus in SA
NZ in Aus
Eng in WI

Off the top of my head I can recall watching these series and being reasonably entertained. The Pak in SL series and the two Aus/SA series were especially good to watch I thought. I think the Batting Powerplay has definitely improved ODIs and the only change they need to do is to trash the 7 match borefests.

I would personally hate to see the 25 over innings plan implemented. It would amount to 4 slogfests essentially and theres no guarantee that it too won't provide one-sided contests. As well as that, we'd no longer be able to see centuries, fivers etc. Look at T20s. 15 years from now, will there be any memorable spells, innings that'll really stand out?

 

[SaeedAnwar]

Don't think anything drastic needs to happen to be honest. For me personally it is not a broken format. The only thing that needs to be reviewed are the amount of games played. 7 match series are far too long, and in many cases (as in all probability with the Eng vs Aus series going on at the moment) leaves the very realistic possibility of having 3 pointless games left at the end. Need to get rid of the pointless Champions Trophy as well, with the T20 international competitions around there really is no need for this anymore.

yeah whats with these long ass pointless 7 ODI series? they dont make sense at all. I think after a test series, teams should only play 3 ODI series, like the way they use too in the 80's. Also why not have 2-3 major tournaments annually like Sharjah cup or some other international series involving 3 or 4 teams. The advantage of having ODI tournaments is that every game is closely watched even if the ODI match is boring.

Cricket Administrators are screwing every thing

 

[Migara]

Bring back super sub, and let teams decide super sub after the toss.

 

[irfan]

Let's can ODI cricket.

Just so we can say we ended the format in top spot.

 

[HMas]

Bring back super sub, and let teams decide super sub after the toss.

rubbish idea. This is same as playin with 12 players

 

[Jakester1288]

3 or 5 match series, 3 bowlers with a max of 10 overs each, nominated by the captain before the game or at the toss perhaps? In game might work or be better too? I'm not sure.

Lets put it this way.

DONT cut the overs
DONT have a 1, 2, 4, 6 or 7+ game series
DONT make it two innings
and to sum up everything I can't be bothered writing
DONT CHANGE ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR THE MAX OVERS FOR BOWLERS AND SERIES LENGTHS!

Then it's good.

 

[slugger]

How about captains having the freedom to allow their bowlers to bowl more than 10 overs if however a player does bowl more than 10 overs he no longer is available to your team as a batsmen and when a batsmen bats he no longer is available to you to bowl more than 10 overs.

Thus in affect you could chose a team with specialist bowlers however you sacrifice a wicket. you could use 3-4 bowlers, but your team now only has 8-7 wickets. etc..

 

[Noble One]

I am comfortable with ODI cricket as it is.

It is the quality of cricket being played that is destroying the spectacle. Reducing the number of over’s, increasing powerplays, allowing more bouncers; these factors do not remove the fact that we are forced to witness average cricketers such as Tim Paine, James Hopes, Luke Wright, Paul Collingwood, Tim Bresnan compete at an international level.

I couldn't think of anything more exciting than attending an ODI game where quality game breaking cricketers competed (Lance Kluesner, Chris Cairns, Alan Donald, Wasim Akram, Adam Gilchrist). Who out of the current England v Australia ODI series can really make you sit up and be enthralled?

 

[morgieb]

Actually agree with this.

 

[NUFAN]

3 or 5 match series, 3 bowlers with a max of 10 overs each, nominated by the captain before the game or at the toss perhaps? In game might work or be better too? I'm not sure..

Bizarre idea, what about if a bowler gets injured?

 

[Shri]

Instead of bringing the super sub rule back, introduce football style substitutions. Name 4 subs before a game( bat, bowl, wk, AR) and let the sides make the substitution at any point in the game. If the batting side makes a sub, take some powerplay overs away(if they are already been used fully, the batting side dont get to play 50 overs - let 'em play only 48 overs or something) and if the bowling side makes a sub and the sub bowls, award the batting side with some extra powerplay overs.

 

[Jakester1288]

How about captains having the freedom to allow their bowlers to bowl more than 10 overs if however a player does bowl more than 10 overs he no longer is available to your team as a batsmen and when a batsmen bats he no longer is available to you to bowl more than 10 overs.

Thus in affect you could chose a team with specialist bowlers however you sacrifice a wicket. you could use 3-4 bowlers, but your team now only has 8-7 wickets. etc..

Like that idea.

Bizarre idea, what about if a bowler gets injured?

Yeah I had second thoughts about that, decided in match is the best way to go.

 

[Migara]

rubbish idea. This is same as playin with 12 players

You are having some serious problems of comprehension or knowledge about cricket.

 

[Furball]

yeah whats with these long ass pointless 7 ODI series?

They're fine if there's good quality cricket being played. The England vs India series in England in 2007 is easily the best ODI series I've watched, because it was a close, enthralling contest right the way through.

 

[aussie]

Bring back super sub, and let teams decide super sub after the toss.

Seconded. Plus go back to normal 15 overs restrictions, the power-plays hasn't made the game more "exciting" as the critics who pushed for this change wanted. The stupid ICC is so knee-jerk in its reactions sometimes, but i guess thats what you get with a governing body that has no real power in the sport.

Dont blame the format, blame to players. ODIs shouldn't be scrapped at all.