Saturday 6 April 2013

10 ways to attract a crowd

             
It got me wondering about the pro's and cons of such a plan. Aside from the financial aspect, how well would a game like cricket go down on a global level, to a general audience that may not know anything about a rather complicated game.A Baseball game takes around three hours to complete, so a 10-over match should be done in two hours or less, depending on whether Saeed Ajmal is bowling. This way we can fit two or three games in per day, which may upset the BCCI's TV profits, but we only have two weeks to work with, not two months. Let's think of some examples. The last ball of each over has to be pitched like a baseball. You can have double-play run outs. A batsman gets a do-over in the first two overs of the innings, like a Mulligan in golf. A third run off one delivery has to be hopped on one leg. Monty Panesar and Kamran Akmal are allowed one hand-one bounce. Etcetera. So here are some (tongue-in-cheek) ideas that could attract viewers, for both TV and at the ground, especially if the Olympics are held in a non-cricketing country. Like New Zealand, for example. In the knock out stages, each team gets to make up a new rule before each match, and they carry over until the final. So by the time we reach the last game, there will be a bunch of extra rules for players, umpires and fans to remember. And if they forget a rule, they have to remove an item of clothing.

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