Semi Serious Ideas to Re-Invigorate Test Cricket

[honestbharani]

Butt and dick talk aside, how about a 4 way test

Going back to my 22 player idea, the players could come from 2 countries. So each country gets 11 overall across the test but could have 9 in the first innings side but 2 in the second innings side.

You are just ripping off the 1995 Survivor Series Wildcard matches though.

 

[NZTailender]

You are just ripping off the 1995 Survivor Series Wildcard matches though.

 

[Xix2565]

I'm not exactly sure why people should play through difficult injuries though, if we're taking this subs rule suggestion semi-seriously. How is that better in any way?

 

[Sunil1z]

jokes aside i really don't like this because i think it encourages roads

But this can also stop teams from playing with Pitch conditions too much .

 

[reyrey]

Allow teams to field a specialist keeper who doesn't bat. Reasoning being is that watching them carry out their craft adds to the viewing spectacle. Also allow a bowler to rest on the sidelines after he's bowled an over. Bowlers need protecting as much as possible.

So it's basically XII vs XII but only XI are on the field and only XI bat.

 

[Ali TT]

Superovers at the start of the match. Winners get to choose whether they want to add a wicket to their first innings (ie have a twelfth batter) or remove one from their opponent (leaving them with ten). Only applies to the batting in the first innings. Each side would nominate the extra batter and the one that they'd have removed before the game. Superover will happen after the toss but before the first innings begins.

Wildcard pinch hitter. An extra batter who can be sent to the crease at any point in an innings. Will only get to face twenty deliveries total but can't be out. Aim to score as many as possible off those twenty deliveries, team loses 10 runs every time the pinch hitter is dismissed. Innings otherwise proceeds normally with the other 11 batters. Pinch hitter doesn't play any part in the field.

 

[kyear2]

1. Play more matches (min amount of matches per year)
2. Have a regulation zone to create 2 divisions
3. Have a centrally generated schedule for all teams

 

[ataraxia]

Yeah, I agree with the 2 divisions thing actually. 2 divisions of 10 would be nice.

 

[Ali TT]

1. Play more matches (min amount of matches per year)
2. Have a regulation zone to create 2 divisions
3. Have a centrally generated schedule for all teams

England need to generally play fewer test matches

 

[Son Of Coco]

Allow teams to field a specialist keeper who doesn't bat. Reasoning being is that watching them carry out their craft adds to the viewing spectacle. Also allow a bowler to rest on the sidelines after he's bowled an over. Bowlers need protecting as much as possible.

So...basically what England have been doing for 20 years?

 

[honestbharani]

I wanna see Chahal do this at the fine leg boundary while some fast young fielder fields for him in between his overs at the other end.

 

[TheJediBrah]

So...basically what England have been doing for 20 years?

Funny how many of the proposed rule changes can be responded to by "England have already been cheating that way"

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Funny how many of the proposed rule changes can be responded to by "England have already been cheating that way"

It shows that, like they have said all along, England are saving Test cricket with their innovations.

 

[Jumno]

Maybe field 12 players or a super sub. To swap a batsman for a bowler. I'm sure around 2006 this idea came into practice in odis for a short while.

You always want one extra in the slip or in the covers.

 

[Son Of Coco]

It shows that, like they have said all along, England are saving Test cricket with their innovations.

Bazball = 5.75 rules breaches per over.

 

[Beamer]

I think this is required reading - India, Australia and England boards should do more for Test cricket - Johnny Grave

CWI has spent over 2 million dollars sending teams to Australia in the last four months and whilst CA have received all the economic benefits from those series, we've seen zero dollars back. Is that really fair, reasonable and sustainable?

We've got a Test team there, an ODI team and a T20I team, which will cost us another million-plus dollars in terms of match fees and airfares. We spend more on airfares than anyone else in the world." Grave said. "In percentage terms we will spend more than anyone on red-ball cricket so I would argue against any narrative that the West Indies aren't interested in Test cricket.

We play red-ball cricket at Under-17 level, U-19 level, we have A-team tours, we just played an academy series, and our first-class cricket system will cost more than any other place by miles," Grave said. "We have to put people up in tourist accommodation, we have to [use] hugely expensive regional flights just to be able to have one first-class game. We don't have a host broadcaster so to produce Test cricket along with hawk-eye and all the cameras is very expensive but we are still very committed to the red ball game.

Bottom line is the revenue model needs to change or these ideas are all pointless.

 

[Yeoman]

Profits from ICC tournaments to create a test match fund. The more tests a country plays, the more it gets from the kitty.

 

[Yeoman]

Boards actually use their right to deny NOCs for franchise leagues.

 

[Yeoman]

Full rewind to a time when test match and first class cricket was more popular and sustainable. Teams to travel by steamship and tours to last 6 months, playing provincial sides and upcountry matches against local XVs or XXIIs between test matches This would build a sense of drama and slow down cricket fans’ expectations, sensibilities and (quite probably) heart rates and metabolisms to rates at which they could better appreciate the longer game as a refuge from the fast-paced modern world.

 

[Flem274*]

Grant all nations test status.

It isn't sacred, and the stats dilution argument is for dweebs. When talking rugby union no one looks at the top try scorers and goes BUT THEY SCORED 5 AGAINST CANADA AND HE SCORED 3 AGAINST NAMIBIA SO INVALID they just look at performances in context.

One advantage I can immediately think of is it would open the door to get regular game time if you didn't have to fly halfway across the world for most games, and it would provide more opportunities for both local associate players and foreign ring ins to get some paid hours on the field. The Dutch could play a test against the poms, a series in Ireland etc and it would be a cheaper entry into test cricket than if they were granted test status tomorrow and marched off to Bangladesh or wherever.