Thanks for that string of comments on the suicide post Your last comment’s answer is a post by itself, and it is getting ready. I had no other way of intimating you, so I am taking the liberty of posting this info here!

Concentrated cricket will be the saleable cricket. Test ones will become more like the FA Cup scenario. They play for the sake of history, purists watches it because they have watched it once.

India if doesn’t take proper steps in that direction, then the countries of Pan America and Asia Pacific, who are all expected to be in the cricket circus in the next 10 years down the line shall start making an impact. They are basically more agile and physically oriented when playing.

Just, think of Hockey. Once, it became more physical and a little bit athletic, Indians and Pakistanis started losing out in the international arena.

Korean and Japanese fellows who are short, run very hard, make the game suddenly fast and unsettle the opposition. No big stick work or ball possession or any thing of skill stuff. They just control the game and win it in moments.

You can imagine the same in cricket in Third man boundary fielding. How fast a guy needs to run to cover the ground ?? How little margin of error he will have at his disposal ?? The ball pick and throw back.

And the issue of players’ longevity in cricket ? How much will be the span of cricketing years ? Now, the average first class span would be 12-15 years. Is that possible in the Twenty20 Power cricket ?

Hope, India adepts to Power Cricket sooner like SA and Aussies. That 431 super ODI matches were all the outcome of power cricket that they have been playing in their respective local circuits.

We have to really follow this evolution of cricket closely or else we will get to know these matters once we read Ram Guha’s commentary some 15 years later.