| | Rethinking one day cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04) |
 | | It was heartening to note that the new rules followed the same themes that I had suggested in my article below, but I'm afraid the rule changes were far too conservative to be truly meaningful, and the lack of conviction leaves the changes open to ridicule. |
 | | The format has been strategized to death, say the first camp of naysayers, and is becoming increasingly predictable – slam bang in the first 15 overs, singles and consolidation in the middle overs (when fielding captains oblige by setting fields deep and routinely give easy runs away), and then another flurry in the end. |
 | | The bowlers follow a similar formula – wicket-taking bowlers at the start (at least from one end), the bits and pieces men who most often fill the 4 th and 5 th bowling slots in the middle (with the odd burst from a front-line bowler), and then the specialist death-men in the end. |
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