3-day Test

[bhakum20]

5-day tests are too much in this day and age but test cricket is awesome because the bowlers actually have to bowl sides out unlike LOI. So what about 3-day test with only 6 wickets to take per innings? Everything else would stay the same. Fielding side would still be 11 players, 4 innings max and 90 overs per day from morning to sunset.

 

ODI’s are extremely boring and lack any kind of context, so some of its good points can be combined with the 3-day test concept above. It would be a 3-day test with 50 overs per day, and be day/night match with white ball for 3 days.

 

Best part of 3-day test is it starts on Friday and ends on Sunday, so spectators would come hopefully.

 

T20’s can remain as it is for hit n giggle cricket

Edited December 30, 2018 by bhakum20

[Lala]

5 Day tests are the best. 3 day tests may not give you results most of the time other than draws. Moreover day 3 is the belter, the day of deciding the results of a test match. 

[JourneyMan]

Why is 5 days too much? Test cricket is going through a great period. People are already bored of brainless twenty over ball bashing. 

 

No need for a change. We had three tests with three results in the past week.

[bhakum20]

17 hours ago, JourneyMan said:

Why is 5 days too much? Test cricket is going through a great period. People are already bored of brainless twenty over ball bashing. 

 

No need for a change. We had three tests with three results in the past week.

So how do we get more spectators to test cricket? What about the idea of merging ODI and Test's good points that I mentioned above.

[bhakum20]

20 hours ago, Lala said:

5 Day tests are the best. 3 day tests may not give you results most of the time other than draws. Moreover day 3 is the belter, the day of deciding the results of a test match. 

But if there are fewer wickets to take then you'll be batting in the last innings on day 3. And day 3 isn't always a belter, unless you've stats to prove that. I've seen games getting over on day 3 itself as well.

[beetle]

Play day night test matches .

Get rid of toss.

Give both teams alternate test to decide if they want to bat or field.

If odd number of tests...let the guest team decide the extra one.

Make pitches that help both bowlers and batsmen.