Cricket: ODI v/s T20

Right now Cricket is played by Men in three formats and they are Test Match, One Day International (50 overs Match) & T20.First Test Match Officially played between England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground on 15Th March, 1877 and it was won by Australia by 45 runs, although England Cricket team toured Australia in the year 1861-62 but it not goes in the history book as official. One Day International was played between Australia and England on 05th January,1971 at Melbourne Cricket Ground and concept of one day match generate when third test Match’s first three day rain out then Organisor comes up with idea to abandon the Test Match and in place of it play a game of eight ball overs and total 40 overs per side which was won by Australia and concept of one day game in cricket was born.T20 game is played in English Counties from year 2003 onwards ,off and on T20 game included in the test playing countries but T20 concept not catch the eyes of any country,ICC and crowds until inaugural T20 World Cup held in South Africa in the year 2007 which was won by India and in the final they beat Pakistan by five runs ,with It Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the year 2008 announced begin of Indian Premier League(IPL) based on the pattern of English Premier Football League, having games of T20 and successfully hosted two season of IPL which takes T20 popularity through the roofs in days and so it is now hugely popular and kill and pull the crowd of ODI towards itself and taken other formats under its shadow from popularity point of view and crowd presence in the stadium is drastically going southward.
From three to four years now Test match game and One day International game right now played with two third empty stadiums barring when Australia played against England and India play against Pakistan or India play anywhere in the globe these teams able to pull crowd and known money spinner of tournaments .In 50 overs match some below coded points become harmful for it’s concept after the popularity of T20-
• One has to take off whole day to get full excitement and result of the game and if it played in day night version then game takes two days of crowd, if he/she present in stadium or die hard fan of game.
• Toss play crucial role in the outcome of result.
• Low scoring first inning makes the result predictable and if it is played desperately by home team then crowd sometime become violent especially if the games are played in Indian subcontinent.
      All this leads to one day Internationals existence in danger and it demand from authority to amend it’s rule considering the popularity of T20.It is not long ago that Sachin Tendulkar India’s well known current player of the game who scored maximum runs in this form of the game, considering one day International downfall in popularity express his opinion that one day should be divide into 25 overs two innings game which will take care of all the above coded points and certainly will make popular among mass’, but with his view lot of pro and anti remarks comes from players and as the decision has to be taken by the International Cricket Council which is governing body of Cricket and just today ICC cricket manager Dave Richardson said that we are considering to split One day International game into 25 overs two innings each and it will be test on trial basis in the domestic cricket of South Africa in the games which are fifty overs game and if it will be successful then people will see ODI’s new incarnation but only after it will be discuss in the next meeting of the ICC's cricket committee which will meet on 2010 but He said that he like the idea.
    Today Indian Cricket team starts it’s crucial campaign in the ODI Tri Series and right now game is being played between India and New Zealand ,for India it is crucial because India is few games away to become number one team which will be first time ever in the history of One Day Team ranking but the game is watched by handful of spectators, So new Initiatives which are due from ICC to pull out ODI which have lost its shine drastically from T20 and on trail basis in South Africa announcement by Dave Richardson shows how much they are seriously looking, considering and trying to implement new steps for the welfare of ODI.