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Australia skipper Pat Cummins with the World Cup trophy

How to revamps ODIs

In a follow-up to AB de Villiers’ suggestion in last month’s magazine that 50-over matches might benefit from a twoinnings concept [meaning four innings across a match], I thought I would share ideas I have been touting to friends for a couple of years.

The 50-over game does need a revamp. The public and the players’ ‘focal length’ has been shortened by T20. So here is a template that will encompass the dynamism of T20 but include some of the more cerebral aspects of the longer format:

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