Tak…Tak…Tak…Tak…those were sound of bat and
ball impact. In test cricket when the wall Rahul Dravid was on pitch. Then master
blaster Sachin Tendulkar playing his favourite shot straight drive in one day match. Third one was
Helicopter shot of Captain cool Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Twenty20. And the last
one was from a bat of Sir Ravindra Jadeja in any format of cricket. From these
four sounds you can imagine you can imagine on ground evolution of cricket. But
today I’ve something more to share about evolution of Twenty 20 cricket format.
Well Twenty20 is one of the latest forms of the cricket game, with origin that can be traced back to the late 90s and beginning of 20th century. A shortened format of cricket, meant to be played at the professional level, took birth in the form of an idea, which was discussed by ECB that is England Cricket Board in 1998 and then again, in 2001. So the discussion on Twenty20 cricket format started, when I was still confused between the spelling for word bowling whether it’s BALLLING or BOWLING. However, the idea started taking a concrete shape only in the year 2001. At that time, Benson & Hedges County Cup was coming to an end, Chairmen saw empty seats and felt the need for another one-day competition, as a replacement.
It was Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB, who came up with the proposal for a 40-over game, with 20 overs per innings. He presented the concept formally in 2001, to the county chairmen. It seemed to be the best option to win back the interest of the younger generation and also the declining sponsorship.
Well Twenty20 is one of the latest forms of the cricket game, with origin that can be traced back to the late 90s and beginning of 20th century. A shortened format of cricket, meant to be played at the professional level, took birth in the form of an idea, which was discussed by ECB that is England Cricket Board in 1998 and then again, in 2001. So the discussion on Twenty20 cricket format started, when I was still confused between the spelling for word bowling whether it’s BALLLING or BOWLING. However, the idea started taking a concrete shape only in the year 2001. At that time, Benson & Hedges County Cup was coming to an end, Chairmen saw empty seats and felt the need for another one-day competition, as a replacement.
It was Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB, who came up with the proposal for a 40-over game, with 20 overs per innings. He presented the concept formally in 2001, to the county chairmen. It seemed to be the best option to win back the interest of the younger generation and also the declining sponsorship.
After the proposal of Stuart Robertson formally presented, the ECB members voted and the votes were 11-7, 11 in favor and 7 against the new twenty 20 format. After Stuart's proposal was accepted, a media group was asked to think upon a suitable name for the game. Sooner, Twenty20 became the name of the new born cricket format, afterwards shortened to T20 cricket.
It has been claimed that a format similar
to Twenty20 was conceived by Dr George Christos, a mathematician from Australia.
He even claims that he presented it before the International Cricket Council
and ECB in 1997. However, no credit was given to him when T20 was made public,
as ICC dismissed his involvement in developing the final concept. The formal
introduction of T20 Cricket took place in 2003, when ECB launched the Twenty20 County
Cup, along with slogan "I don't like cricket, I love it".
The first Twenty20 International match between two men's
sides was played on 17
February 2005, involving Australia and New Zealand.
Greg Chappell once said that when 50 over cricket stormed on to the scene in the 1970s, Test players struggled with the pace and pressure of the limited over games. Greg Chappel stated that cool heads in Test cricket, extracted from their comfort zone, became panicked to keep the scoreboard running too quickly in one day cricket. The same could be said with T20 cricket as players make the adjustment to a 20 over sprint, after being groomed for the last decade on an over-saturation of 50 over internationals.
Does anyone knows, When team India played it’s first T20
international and against whom?
The Indian cricket team played its first T20I match under the captaincy of Virender Sehwag at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, on 1 December 2006, against South Africa.
The short and crispy idea of T20 cricket started getting momentum in year 2008 when India won first twenty 20 cricket worldcup. There were 3 Historical moments happened in 2008 twenty 20 world up. 1. Super Over in India vs Pakistan match at group level 2. Yuvraj Singh’s 6 massive sixes to Stuart Broad, These sixes Yuvi’s reactions against the Andrew Flintoff’s sledging. 3. The Last over in the final aginst Pakistan by Joginder Sharma.
Then in year 2009 Lalit Modi, the ex- vice-president of the BCCI, and who modeled Indian Premier League along the lines of club football in Europe, specifically the English Premier League. Lalit Modi brought 1.5 billion dollars money and planed 10 seasons. Lalit Modi made IPL Twenty20 a Hit and Run competition. I think that’s the reason why Salman Khan is afraid of owning any IPL team.
T20 currently involves less thinking and
planning than the two longer forms of cricket, but what it does require is
immediate responses because there is little margin for error. Every ball in T20
represents around one per cent of an innings. Team have just 120 moments, 120
balls, compared to 50-over cricket. So the key to T20 cricket is asking player
to respond to the moment and win as many of the 120 moments per innings they
can. Achieve this task and your chances of winning greatly improves.
For more updates on twenty20 cricket do watch T20 world-cup matches that has started on 11th March 2016 on star cricket and live streaming on hotstar.com and enjoy this beautiful and fast paced T20 game.
For more updates on twenty20 cricket do watch T20 world-cup matches that has started on 11th March 2016 on star cricket and live streaming on hotstar.com and enjoy this beautiful and fast paced T20 game.
