Yeah this is exactly how I feel. I don't watch the IPL, I absolutely abhor it, but I see these scores popping up and it feels rotten. Feels dirty. If I know the BCCI (and I don't) I don't think they'd care a jot about listening to anyone, unless it's listening to the cash register continue to ring. This could be an incorrect generalisation about Indian people, but I would imagine their obsession with the game would go unbroken - I don't know if there'd be a point where they say 'nah this is perverse, we want the old game back'. They just love the game so much, I don't know if the pushback will ever come from them, and that's your majority market.
We've seen it's already cannibalised 50-over stuff, which kills me, really. But having said that, I don't want to watch 450 plays 450 - and that's coming, based on these IPL scores.
I'm a golf fan, and they're rolling back the technology in that sport...I wonder if that would be a solution in cricket. The bats are obviously insane in the amount of wood they have and how mi****s still go for six, and when you couple that with smallish grounds, it's just a wackedy-do fest. They could look at that as a way to address the balance - I still think you can play an entertaining game of T20 cricket on a big ground where you can't just clear the hip and find the crowd from the inside half of the bat. Obviously nothing can be done about the size of grounds, we can't shun every ground with boundaries under 75m.
But just like your ex-girlfriend, they have to want to change. They have to recognise they have to change. And almost always won't.
