ICC to try Sachin's Idea!

The ICC has decided to test Sachin's idea of splitting the 50-over ODI format into a four innnings 25-overs match.

Sachin earlier said, "I am for 50-over cricket. I think we should have 25 overs a side to start with. I thought of this during the 2002 Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka."

The ICC cricket manager Dave Richardson said to BBC sport, "I quite like that idea, I believe South Africa may try something along those lines."

"This might work in day-night cricket where one team has to bat in day and the other at night. It provides something different and reduces the effects on the team who loses the toss and has to bat first on a damp wicket," he said.

Richardson revealed the concept of two 25-over innings had been proposed a number of times and resurfaced once again at the ICC's cricket committee annual meeting at Lord's in May.

(source: net)

Sachin Suggests 25 over ODI!

Sachin suggested a new formula for ODI game. Recently there were lot of opinions coming from several players, coaches, cricketing bodies. England abolished the 50-over ODI format in their domestic season.

Sachin said, "I am for 50-over cricket," in an interview to the Times Now channel. He said, "I was thinking of probably 25 overs each to start with and again you go and play 25 overs."

He remembered the ICC Champions Trophy final in Srk Lanka held in 2002 where the Sri Lankans batted their full innings for two days in a row but rain forced abandonment of the match and the trophy was shared between two teams.

"This is also because in certain places, in day-night matches the conditions are completely different when you bat or bowl second," he said.

"So both sides (will) get to bat when the lights are not on. Then both bat when the lights are on, 25 overs," he said. "So it is not so heavily dependent on toss."

Other cricket players like Kapil Dev, Dean Jones have come out with their version.