BE SCARED. Be very scared. The 50-over game has been superseded by its demanding infant brother, and the more exciting Twenty20 circus is making the 50-over game look tired and old.
But there's still time for the "traditional" one-day game to fight back. We need to spice it up.
First and foremost, we need to tackle the predictability of the overs between 20 and 40. Too often, batting teams look to keep wickets in hand and punch through the gaps for ones and twos, which is easy with five men on the boundary. So this period known as the "Tavare Zone"* has fewer boundaries, fewer wickets and less entertainment.
Let's bring in some rules to make those middle overs less robotic and get the fun ledger tilting back 50-over cricket's way.
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