Action Cricket

All is well about the International Cricket Council's new draft cricketing regulation. But it should also think of including Twenty20 cricket in its international calendar. This compressed version of the game is to cricket what one-act play is to drama, or for that matter, what short story is to prose. It is packed with action from the word 'go' and once it is on, there is no saying 'no' to it. It has thus far been tried with phenomenal success in homeland England and has generated tremendous fanfare in Pakistan as well. This total entertainment package is all set to reframe the grammars of the game. The ICC should welcome it with arms wide stretched, especially since it has all the potentials to generate huge revenues, also from less-known cricketing nations, where in any case, cricket is usually a weekend affair.