Watching the Champions League final has made me wonder about cricketing extra time. If an ODI or Twenty20 finishes with the scores level perhaps cricket might want to consider a one over "shoot out" for each side? Wickets would need to be a negative, but apart from that it would be cricket as normal (well as normal in Twenty20).Pietersen and Collingwood v Symonds and Hussey sounds like an interesting match up....perhaps with Lee and Sidebottom as the bowlers....
I wonder if there'd be any appetite for that amongst cricket fans?
Or let's repeat the sixties revival of single wicket matches. In that decade and maybe a bit later there was an annual end of season day at Lords where all the stars competed in an knock-out tournament with fielding by the ground staff boys (gave them a day in the limelight).
ReplyDeleteMatches were limited overs (I think 5 each) but out was out so some matches were very short!
They were excellent days.