5 Experiments in cricket that proved to be absolute duds

In the past 50 years, there have been a plethora of concepts employed by the ICC that have turned out to be absolute duds.

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3. 45-over split

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Bat and Ball. (Photo by Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)

During the latter stages of the first decade of the 2000s, One-Day cricket was facing a sort of identity crisis. With India winning the inaugural World Twenty20 kickstarting a T20 revolution, on that saw the popularity of the shortest format of the game blow the roof-top.

Questions were being posed at the relevance of the 50-over format and obituaries were being published of its imminent demise. It is at this stage that Cricket Australia came up with a rather radical 45-over split concept in its domestic cricket. According to the concept, both teams were required to play two innings split between 20 and 25 overs. The concept allowed a bowler to bowl a maximum number of 12 overs.

However, the concept was heavily criticized by the Australian players association, spearheaded by the then national team captain Ricky Ponting and was scrapped shortly.

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