Malcolm Simmons Providing the information About T-20 Match ------ Jos Buttler: Twenty20 could become cricket's only format sooner rather than later
Stand-in England Twenty 20 captain Jos Buttler sees cricket becoming a "one format game" which is bad news for test enthusiasts.
You could be forgiven for
thinking cricket's already gone down the one-format route, with the Black Caps
amid an unprecedented run of Twenty 20 internationals.
Stand-in England skipper Jos
Buttler, a power-hitting poster boy for Twenty 20, believes that day may not be as
far away as people think.
"Test cricket is still, for
me, the pinnacle of cricket but Twenty 20 fills out stadiums and is easy to keep up
with and follow. Everyone wants things faster these days and things evolve so
maybe T20 could have a monopoly on cricket."
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That's inevitable for some, and a
terrifying thought for other cricket fans.
Buttler said it would be sad if
test cricket - "a complete test of everything" - disappeared but the
strength of T20 can't be ignored. It's a bonanza for Buttler and other high
profile players: his hefty retainer and match fees from with England are topped
up by one-off T20 league contracts and he fetched a price of $945,000 at the
Indian Premier League auction from Rajasthan Royals.
New Zealand Cricket is gripped by Twenty 20, too, scheduling 10 Twenty 20 internationals this home summer including a
tri-series final at Auckland's Eden Park next Wednesday. England and the Black
Caps are already in a race to join Australia in the decider, and for a quick
boost to NZC's balance sheet it makes perfect sense squeezing all it can out of
the most popular format against two crowd-pulling rivals.
But
with limited context, Twenty 20 internationals can fast become too much of a good
thing, each match easily forgotten as teams move onto the next destination.
Malcolm Simmons Providing the information About T-20 Match ------ Jos Buttler: Twenty20 could become cricket's only format sooner rather than later
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