After India’s five-wicket win against Australia in the first ODI of the series, legendary batter Sachin Tendulkar opined that 50-over cricket is getting monotonous and suggested multiple changes to make it interesting.
The 49-year-old proposed to divide a match into four halves of 25 overs each and also pointed out that the spinners are not protected in the current format. Thus, the former cricketer wants to see some positive changes going forward in order to protect ODI cricket.
Now, after the second ODI between India and Australia, former cricketer Ajay Jadeja reacted to Sachin’s suggestions in a hilarious fashion, pointing out that the teams are no longer interested in taking the game to 40 overs.
Notably, neither Australia nor India batted more than 40 overs in any of the matches in the ongoing series, thus, Jadeja jokingly stated that all the talks about predictability and boring games are gone now.
“The master has made his statement, there are no doubts on that. But the thing is those who have played have accepted that. They have stopped that game between the 15th and 40th overs. They are not even going till there. All the problems that we had with predictability, boring, they are all gone now,” Jadeja said on Cricbuzz referring to the first two ODIs.
“Tendulkar sahab said that 15-40 over period is getting boring, these guys said we won't even play until the 40th over,” the 52-year-old added.
This format has changed according to the period it was played: Ajay Jadeja
Jadeja also reminded that ODI cricket has changed from time to time. He pointed out that previously it was played with one single red ball, but now two white balls are used.
Jadeja also stated that the concept of 30-yard circle didn’t exist for a long period of time but to make the game interesting, the governing body introduced it. Thus, he feels that the game has kept on changing and both teams showed that in the second ODI.
“People of a certain generation would remember that this one day cricket used to happen at one time without a 30-yard circle. You could send all nine fielders to the boundary.
That became boring so the concept of the circle was brought in, and then to compensate for conditions in Australia, two new balls were brought in. Back when one day cricket started it used to be played with the red ball and that made the game entirely different.
This format has changed according to the period it was played in and different kinds of teams won or lost matches. You cannot change the science, the 22 yards and the five-and-a-half ounce remains the same,” he added.
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