Sachin Tendulkar Asks For Changes To ODI Cricket, Questions Relevance Of Duleep Trophy

India legend Sachin Tendulkar has asked for changes to be made to the ODI cricket and has asked for four innings in an ODI, once again. Earlier as well, Tendulkar had asked for the changes to be made but they weren’t implemented. Tendulkar said that a team should bat twice for 50 overs.

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“The 50-over format is the first thing that needs a look-in. As I had suggested, the format needs a tweak of two innings of 25 overs per side with a 15-minute break between each innings (a total of four innings between two teams). The number of innovations that can be brought in are huge,” he told The Times of India.

“Let’s say there’s a 50-over-a-side match between Team A and Team B. Team A wins the toss, bats 25 overs; then team B bats for 25 overs; Team A resumes innings (with whatever wickets left) from the 26th over; Team B then resumes the last innings to chase the target. If Team A has lost all their wickets within the first 25 overs itself, then Team B gets 50 overs (25 overs plus 25 overs with a break) to chase the target,” Tendulkar added.

In past few years, lots of changes in the ODI cricket – the present powerplay rule has seen the format become batsmen friendly as more teams are scoring 300+ scores.

He also questioned the Duckworth & Lewis method and said that only two men who made the rule understood it. Further, Tendulkar questioned the relevance of Deodhar Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy.

As per the present format, the Deodhar Trophy and Duleep Trophy teams have players from different states and as Tendulkar mentions there is a lack of team bonding. Earlier, both the tournament were played on zonal basis and players from different zones used to play for their zone.

“Look at the Challenger. Players come from different states, zones, play together for a few days and disperse. There’s no team bonding. Do we even remember these games? Teams are randomly chosen. The same applies to the Duleep Trophy in certain ways. It doesn’t serve any purpose when players arrive overnight from different zones and play a few matches and go their separate ways. Even in IPL, teams stay together for two months,” he said.

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In the case of Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy, it used to be played after IPL auction and top players used to give it a miss. However, the tournament will a must-watch for franchises this time as it will be played just a month ahead of the IPL 2020 auction.

Tendulkar isn’t a part of any ICC or BCCI committee but being an ICC Hall of Famer, there are chances that the apex board will surely revisit his proposal.