Excessive Home Dominance
Now, we will take into account how much home dominance has downplayed Test cricket. Now, it has become the story of every other series. We will start with Ashes, the most compelling series of the lot in the whites. If we exclude the exceptional English triumph on Aussie soil in 2010/11, the script seems to be pre-written.
In the last seven Ashes series, six has been triumphed by the hosting nation.
If we talk about India and Australia, there fierce rivalry saw new highs in the early 2000s with both teams enduring a very competitive battle in Tests but now the charm of India v Australia series also seems lost.
The last six series has only seen hosts winning the bilateral series battle. Especially, the home dominance …show more content…
Everyone is so busy if not in their professional lives than in their smart phones that not many watch an 8-hour Test for consecutive five days or even a day. The youth is so impatient and fickle-minded that if they ruled the world then every ball in cricket will be about six, four or a wicket, so just imagine how much of a mismatch Test cricket is with present times.
No one anymore is interested in watching the ball go past the edge of the bat and the epitome battle of skill and technique of the batsmen with bowler’s mastery and tactfulness. Generally, the end of office hour’s is marked by the end of a day’s play in Tests unlike the T20s which mostly begun at night time and lasts for hardly three hours and serves up as a perfect entertainment package for one and all. You just need to grab the popcorn to enjoy the smoking sixes out of the park right from the onset. And this is what our generation wants; entertainment, entertainment and entertainment, at a rate of knots. Purists have become just a mere exception. Everything has to evolve with time as it spares none but Tests are seemingly on the same page where it was a century …show more content…
Though recently, the historic Day-night Test played with Pink ball under lights turned out to be successful. In a way it shows that now even ICC knows that it has to take some stern steps at the earliest to bring back the charm to Test cricket and now even boards are realizing that they can’t incur heavy losses due to Tests and have to do something to make good revenue. So they are going hard for Day-night Tests even though it’s not much supported by the cricketers due to its fallacies. Four-day Tests, Test Championship, Day-Night Tests, Two-division system, points system, fair pitches, grooming of associates are some of the proposals put forward by people to nullify the dullness which has clouded Test cricket and bring back the much needed charm to it before it follows the path of oblivion and
Now, we will take into account how much home dominance has downplayed Test cricket. Now, it has become the story of every other series. We will start with Ashes, the most compelling series of the lot in the whites. If we exclude the exceptional English triumph on Aussie soil in 2010/11, the script seems to be pre-written.
In the last seven Ashes series, six has been triumphed by the hosting nation.
If we talk about India and Australia, there fierce rivalry saw new highs in the early 2000s with both teams enduring a very competitive battle in Tests but now the charm of India v Australia series also seems lost.
The last six series has only seen hosts winning the bilateral series battle. Especially, the home dominance …show more content…
Everyone is so busy if not in their professional lives than in their smart phones that not many watch an 8-hour Test for consecutive five days or even a day. The youth is so impatient and fickle-minded that if they ruled the world then every ball in cricket will be about six, four or a wicket, so just imagine how much of a mismatch Test cricket is with present times.
No one anymore is interested in watching the ball go past the edge of the bat and the epitome battle of skill and technique of the batsmen with bowler’s mastery and tactfulness. Generally, the end of office hour’s is marked by the end of a day’s play in Tests unlike the T20s which mostly begun at night time and lasts for hardly three hours and serves up as a perfect entertainment package for one and all. You just need to grab the popcorn to enjoy the smoking sixes out of the park right from the onset. And this is what our generation wants; entertainment, entertainment and entertainment, at a rate of knots. Purists have become just a mere exception. Everything has to evolve with time as it spares none but Tests are seemingly on the same page where it was a century …show more content…
Though recently, the historic Day-night Test played with Pink ball under lights turned out to be successful. In a way it shows that now even ICC knows that it has to take some stern steps at the earliest to bring back the charm to Test cricket and now even boards are realizing that they can’t incur heavy losses due to Tests and have to do something to make good revenue. So they are going hard for Day-night Tests even though it’s not much supported by the cricketers due to its fallacies. Four-day Tests, Test Championship, Day-Night Tests, Two-division system, points system, fair pitches, grooming of associates are some of the proposals put forward by people to nullify the dullness which has clouded Test cricket and bring back the much needed charm to it before it follows the path of oblivion and