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The Game of Cricket as we know today was not the same 10 years ago. It was even different 20 years ago, and even vastly different 30 years or prior to that.
Yes games of Hockey, Football etc have also evolved but they still have a basic format which prevails in all the matches and Tournaments.
They have stipulated time periods and rules that are followed in all the matches.
Yet in cricket, we have :
1)We have the oldest form: The Test cricket which is played as per many rules which were there more than 100 years back too.
The game is played for five days, both sides have to bat for 2 innings, and the side scoring more runs overall, or the side which gets the other side earlier wins.
2)The One Day Internationals: These were not started as per any plan, but a washed out match in 1971 between England and Australia led to its start. The World Cup tournaments over the years led to its increasing popularity and by late 1980s this form of the game has surpassed test cricket in both popularity, reach and volumes. This form also led to more money and sponsor-ships flowing into the game.
3)While One Day Internationals, or the ODIs as we call them more commonly had a greater reach across the world as compared to the Test matches, a few people felt that its almost 7-8 hour long format was difficult to follow for viewers across the world, and even in the countries where cricket is played and watched. Guys like Martin Crowe and others started with an idea of an even shorter format, which started in England around early 2000s.
This was the Twenty-20 Or T-20. This format initially picked up more in England, South Africa and Australia, but later on the subcontinental teams and now West Indies too have picked up.
This is the instant format of the game, which can even break the barrier of United States, some more European countries and Latin America and Japan where cricket has not been able to make a cut.
We have the T-20 world cup held after every two years, with some consecutive two years cups in between.
Apart from the Tests, ODIs and T-20s, we also have some other formats like Six a side which have been tried out.
Yet these formats are more popular and are key to the scheme of things in cricket.
Yet where does the game goes from here?
Continued further
Source: Based on my Wikinut article of “bygone”(not very far off) times:
http://www.wikinut.com/what-is-in-the-future-for-the-game-of-cricket/n2l6sfvd/3akn1ts_/
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Cricket is a game that I used to play me and my friends back in the days but we called it something totaly different but played th3 same way. We used yo call it rounders. It used to be very interesting back then,but as we grew up th3 interest started fading away. Right now I hardly sit down to even watch a game because I find it boring.
Now with all new formats like T20 and leagues tournaments Cricket has become now aggresive sports. In past with test cricket there was slow game. But now it has become more entertaining game. Now there is no more slow cricket like it used to be in past. I am not saying that past cricket wasn't good, it was having its own class. But now lots of things has been changed in compare to past.
@sauda Perhaps you will find T-20 format interesting!
@naruto100 Yes but sometimes I like the Test matches- even from older days.
The game of cricket is these getting popularity among the youths all over the world. In the days gone by people enjoyed the test , after this one day international and now the new format T20 appears in the surface of cricket world and got popularity all over the world.
Twenty20. ... Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket. At the professional level, it was originally introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition in England and Wales.
T20 Cricket was formally introduced to the world in 2003, when ECB launched the Twenty20 Cup, along with slogan “I don’t like cricket, I love it”. The same year, the first Twenty20 cricket tournament was organized in England, with various county cricket teams.
The tournament proved to be a success, with thousands of spectators filling the England’s cricket stadiums, a first in many decades. Soon, other cricket playing nations of the world also started to take notice of Twenty20 cricket.
Soon after the first Twenty20 cricket tournament was played and became overnight success, South Africa, Australia and the West Indies also organized similar tournaments, which again attracted huge cricket audience.
In the year 2005, history was created, when Twenty20 cricket made its international debut, with the first T20 International being played, between Australia and New Zealand at Eden Park. As the popularity of the new form of cricket started rising, surpassing that of even ODIs and Tests, the game was taken more seriously