This is no cricket speak. This is my statement, as cricket writer, columnist and editor of www.crickblog.com.
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Even as the ICC has expressed openly its desire that it was open to the idea of dividing the traditional ODI into a game of two Twenty20 matches in a Test format, there is a sudden cramming to take credit of where the idea originated from.
Even as Sachin Tendulkar was the largest voice quite naturally to voice the idea, that similar modifications were on the minds of cricket know hows has not been lost.
But even as the herd gathers to storm those who say Tendulkar was the first cricket brain to moot the idea, it appears unique to say, "I did not think of it."
And perhaps since it makes sense, it is better to state why. Cricket lovers already have Test cricket. Cricket lovers already have Twenty20, that has suddenly mushroomed on every street corner. There is T-10 Gully cricket that is getting patronizers. So, why make ODIs appear like any of them?
To my mind, it appears there is scope to think more creatively about the ODI game rather than make it wear a borrowed coat. If it means thinking beyond cricket minds have done in the last decade to make the game more interesting.
The ICC though seem to have the right idea, not necessarily about dividing the game into four pie portions, something Brett Lee is amongst the foremost to state he is not too enthusiastic about, in wanting to first try any innovations at the domestic structure and then, be open to incorporating it at the international level only upon knowing it could actually work.
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