Future cricket looks shorter
The likelihood of the 50-over game being scrapped for good for the sake of Twenty20 and even shorter formats seems inevitable, writes Peter Williams in the New Zealand Herald
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
The likelihood of the 50-over game being scrapped for good for the sake of Twenty20 and even shorter formats seems inevitable, writes Peter Williams in the New Zealand Herald. With each decade, the attention spans of the viewing public has only decreased, which explains the rapid success of Twenty20.
If the 2007 World Cup was the most tedious international cricket tournament of all time, will the 2011 event have any relevance in an evolving marketplace? Will the 2015 event, scheduled for New Zealand and Australia, even happen?
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo