5 innovations in the game of cricket

#2 T20 cricket

Pakistan v India - Twenty20 Championship Final 2007

T20 cricket is the biggest revolution in cricket in this century. Though T20 cricket is just 12 years old at the international level, it has taken rapid strides during that period. In 6 T20 World Cups, there have been 5 different winners, which shows that it is a format in which no particular team can dominate for long.

The team which has a good day on the field for 3.5 hours (the regular duration of a T20 game) will emerge victorious, unlike Test cricket, where a team can make a come back even after a bad session or a two.

The T20 format has become so popular that all Test playing nations have started their own T20 leagues now. The introduction of T20 cricket has brought changes to the approach of the players in other formats of the game i.e. Tests and ODIs. Individual scores of 150 and above are a regularity in ODI whereas teams score 350 in an ODI innings on a consistent basis. These totals are easily chased down as well. The same approach has been adopted in Test cricket, where cricketers are seen scoring a century in a session which was unheard of in the past, but is a regular occurrence today.

T20 has definitely changed cricket positively and will be a crowd puller and a perfect form of entertainment in the future too.