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There was this article I wrote up once explaining why match fixing claims cause the losers to be the only team to enjoy the game of cricket. But what havoc follows when some lazy people start to intervene in the scheme of things ?
The toss is redundant, I felt, and asked the captains the following questions
"if you win, would u bat?"
If the answer was yes, and the other captain said he would bowl, I'd make the toss redundant. This greatly reduced the time spent apart from playing the game of cricket itself.
You'd think this was bad enough, but it goes on..
If you batted first, would you be comfortable with 160 for 2 after 20?
If the answer was yes, and the other captain felt comfortable chasing something close to the figure, the entire first innings was redundant.
This went on and on and on until the entire game of cricket, the world cup, the whole thing, boiled down to one ball, to one batsman.
This greatly reduced the amount of time playing the game of cricket, and advertising covered the rest of the 4 hours.
It would take a smart bookie to fix a match now.
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