What innovations we can bring in cricket?
Even though we Indians love cricket, it is not one of the popular games across the world. Football, Tennis will certainly take the top spot in this regard. Cricket is hardly played by 12 countries in its main division while other countries play it in subsequent division (mostly without sponsors and exposure). I was just thinking, what innovations we can bring in the various formats of the game: T20, One-day and Test to make it more interesting. 1. Why play only 11 players when the squad always has 15 players. In football, you can substitute three players across 90 minutes. There are a few similarities between cricket and football. They are team sports and each team has 11 players. Out of these 11 players, 10 moves across the ground and the remaining one holds in position, i.e., a goalkeeper in football and a wicket-keeper in cricket. Then, why can we not use the rule of substitutes in cricket? In cricket, we can allow the team to substitute one player in ea...