There are lot of proposals to improve and or speed up test cricket. I have not seen much discussion on one such, so I want to brought that up, increase the number of balls per over from 6 or 8/10, this can help speed up the test cricket.
Why Change number of balls per over?
One of the key to success of test Cricket is giving more leverage or opportunity of attack to bowlers. Many times we see, a batsman is setup by bowler, but he gets away because over got changed, pressure is released.
This can be specially true in testing conditions (both for pacers and spinners). Batsmen would not like to face a 10 ball over from a bowler in rhythm. Also, this will cause more collapses specially lower order, night watchman, end of session scenarios etc, when they have to see off not 6 but 10 balls.
One concern is that it can have toll on bowler, I believe more balls per over is less straining then same number of balls divided into more overs, in general. As a bowler you hate to a break when you have setup the batsman.
One can make things even more interesting, is but have variable length overs, bowling Captain can choose to change number of balls per over at different time or overs window, like PP in ODI. That can get complicate and stats nerd would not like that, but I am all for making game interesting and exciting and less on bureaucracy. Contest is more important than stats.
Thoughts??
Why Change number of balls per over?
One of the key to success of test Cricket is giving more leverage or opportunity of attack to bowlers. Many times we see, a batsman is setup by bowler, but he gets away because over got changed, pressure is released.
This can be specially true in testing conditions (both for pacers and spinners). Batsmen would not like to face a 10 ball over from a bowler in rhythm. Also, this will cause more collapses specially lower order, night watchman, end of session scenarios etc, when they have to see off not 6 but 10 balls.
One concern is that it can have toll on bowler, I believe more balls per over is less straining then same number of balls divided into more overs, in general. As a bowler you hate to a break when you have setup the batsman.
One can make things even more interesting, is but have variable length overs, bowling Captain can choose to change number of balls per over at different time or overs window, like PP in ODI. That can get complicate and stats nerd would not like that, but I am all for making game interesting and exciting and less on bureaucracy. Contest is more important than stats.
Thoughts??