England captain Ben Stokes announced his retirement from ODI earlier this week and since that decision a debate has begun about the cricket schedule and how players can choose different formats to ease the pressure on their bodies. surname. Former Head Coach of Team India Ravi Shastri has now proposed a radical change, saying that only the top six teams will be able to play Test cricket and the sport could be popularized to different countries through whiteball cricket.
“If you want Test cricket to survive, you can’t have 10, 12 teams. Keep the top six, keep the quality of the cricket and respect the quality over the quantity. That’s the only way you open up the opportunity. opportunity for other crickets to be played Expand the team in T20 or one day cricket if you want to spread the game but in the Cricket Trial you will have to reduce the team then it doesn’t matter if England don’t go to the West Indies or if the West Indies hadn’t come to England,” Shastri said on Sky Sports on Friday.
“If they’re in the top six, they play and if they’re not in the top six, they don’t play. Whether it’s India, Australia or England, you have to qualify for that top six, if you want around playing games. If you want to experience the game, do it with a white ball, ideally a T20 cricket. In short, it’s a football model, you will have the World Cup, a big tournament and a part. the rest of it will be different leagues around the world,” he added.
When asked the reason for his proposal, Shastri said: “What is Test cricket? It tests you, you need quality. So if there is no quality who will watch it? You will have two or three. day of games of the day, if you go to countries that have never played Test cricket and you say you arrive in England or India in bowler friendly conditions, both in first leg or finish, the game will finished in two and a half days.”
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“You’ve taken money from broadcasters for five days, they’re not going to be happy and the fans aren’t going to be happy,” he added.
While announcing his decision to retire from ODIs, Stokes stated that playing all three of the game’s formats had become unsustainable for him.
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