Ask the readers: What type of cricket do you prefer?
Rating Test, Twenty20 and ODI cricket in order of preference is a common cricketing arguement. But what about the cricket you actually play?
Today's article intends to find out with a quick poll. What is your favourite format?
I prefer playing shorter format cricket. Twenty over games would be ideal for me although I play most of my games in the traditional English style of 1 day, 1 innings each with draws and declarations possible.
Declaration cricket is fun, but given the choice I would enjoy the greater athleticism and shorter time span of the Twenty20 game.
What about you? Do you prefer the longer forms of the game? Or are you a limited overs nut?
Fill in the poll and if you have any comments, leave them in the comments box at the bottom of this article.
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I preffer test matches the most and then one-day and after that 20/20 matches. This is for the international level.
But in my club i like both one day and 2day matches, i wish we have test matches!
personally i like the longer forms of the game.. 20/20 is awesome but if i wanted fast paste action and heavy hitting , id play baseball (that is why i left playing baseball to cricket). around here we play 20/20 and 1 day limited overs; specific times during the year however, the best clubs get to participate in 2 dayers
I love Test Matches because they are the most authentic games of cricket. However, I like Twenty20 because players play spontaneously and without much fear. As for the 50 over game: There is a lot of talk about changing the 50 over ODI game to perhaps 40 overs a side , which is definitely one option. However, the only change I would make would be to have 2 segments of 25 overs per side (not 4 innings per game) so that the game can be divided into quarters. At half time the team batting first continue where they left off. This format means that conditions in the light and wicket are similar for both sides. One benefit would be that it would shorten one-sided games and if the game is rain affected one has more of a chance of getting a result fairly with less need to refer to D/L. Also, while considering this concept why not have the two teams bowl their first segments of 25 overs from one end (batsmen change around at end of every over) and then the teams bowl from the other end for the last two segments of 25 overs per side? Third powerplay of five overs would be designated for second 25 over segment, per side. This way batsmen would still get quality 100's. One last change - allow two bowlers per side to bowl maximum of 15 overs throughout the game in order to challenge the batsmen a tad more.
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I love Test matches, because these are heart and soul of Cricket, then One Day Internationals and then Twenty 20 Internationals, but when play I prefer T20 for playing in our local cricket, short period of time and result oriented.