5 interesting suggestions from Sachin Tendulkar to keep Cricket relevant

#2 Back to back home and away Test series

This idea has been adopted from the way football fixtures are played in the Champions League as well as in domestic leagues around the world. Sachin proposed that every bilateral series should have two phases – both teams play home and away.

This will ensure that the composition of both teams is more or less the same during the two legs giving the audience a real test of the quality of both teams. An excellent idea to pitch teams in two varying conditions, it could help prevent teams from preparing pitches that are incredibly skewed in favour of the home team.

It would also test the ability of the players to perform, within a short period, under two different sets of conditions. However, this idea will present enormous logistical challenges as organising back and forth trips of cricket teams could be an issue. It will also be a problem given the tight schedules of teams, especially with ODI tournaments squeezed in between tours.