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ODI CRICKET : A DYNAMIC ENTITY

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"You know all these runs scored nowadays makes no sense. It was tough to get 200+ in an One Day International with a right balance between Bat and ball", murmured an Once Die-Hard cricket fan to his son, when he got ecstatic after watching AB de Villiers smothering the West Indian bowlers at Sydney in the World Cup. Although it didn't help in the father's favour, yet he was sure his son would understand it soon enough. Source: Financial Express Starting from the fielding restrictions to the club-like bats to the outrageous shots, probably ODI cricket has seen more than what Pandora saw after opening the box. As the above pic of the South African star depicts, if a cricket fan from say, 20 years ago happens to see this image, he/she might be thinking the batsman just posed after a false shot. However it'd come as a great shock after knowing that it went for a BOUNDARY !! Yes, A BLOODY BOUNDARY !! The popularity of ODI cricket on the international sc...

Modern Day Cricket : The Permanent Change

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The thing that each generation of cricketers, analysts and fans ponder about, the modern day cricket. As they say, change is the only permanent thing, so does modern day cricket. Gone are those days, when batsmen faced raging fast bowlers with caps on, when fans used to rush in after the team’s victory to celebrate with the players themselves. It’s all ‘closed’ now. Physically out of reach, mentally as well. Fans are now defined as a bunch of people who turn up to the cricket fields just for the sake of entertainment (T20s, errr…). The enthusiasm of a cricket fan of this generation has certainly been changed, thanks to the ever-lasting process of modernization. It would be a mistake to say people aren’t supporting the true form of cricket, but even in that form of the game, one wishes to see a contest between the two teams. Entertainment, that is. How far the changes are going to happen and up to which extent in the cricketing world, we don’t know. Yet from the f...