Rules favoured towards batsmen are slowly killing cricket

[Chokli]

Last week I saw Shahid Afridi at 45+ age score a 50 off 14 balls at the all famous Sharjah Cricket ground.

Now I have been watching cricket since the 90s and the difference I saw with the sloggers back then and now is the those who played during the 90s and 2000s had a lot more difficulty clearing the Sharjah cricket ground ropes. Hitting sixes on this ground wasn't easy.

Now the sloggers at this time hit it with such ease that even a top edge or at the end of the bat hit can bring them sixes.

Cricket laws that were made from mid 2000s till now have been hurting cricket. The game in my opinion is totally unbalanced. The batsman reign supreme. There is no more 50-50 battle. Thick bats, fielding rules, new ball rule, and many more are not correcting or reviving cricket but are slowly killing the game.

I was watching the recent Australia-South Africa series and there were 70% empty seats. I have never witnessed a cricket game between South Africa and Australia greeted so poorly by the crowd turnaround in Australia.

ICC needs to wake up and disregard most of these rules. Cricket is dying a slow death.

 

[chacha kashmiri]

I first remember seeing this in the World Cup in Taunton in 99 when Rahul Dravid and Ganguly scored a crazy amount of runs together
This is now the norm in cricket sadly

Sadly only overcast conditions and 4th/5th day pitches help bowlers nowadays against batsmen