Cricket: Glenn Maxwell finished with 77 runs in Australia's high scoring win over Pakistan in their final hit out before the World Cup.
Maxwell leads win over Pakistan | 03:03Pakistan cricket legend Wasim Akram wants to see ODI cricket reduced to 40 overs in an attempt to create a more entertaining product.
“The ODI has been reduced to virtually depending on a World Cup year for its importance,” former Australian captain Ian Chappell wrote forIndian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, who won the 2011 World Cup on home soil, suggested ODIs had become formulaic and “predictable”.“It’s getting boring.” “Nowadays the audience, we do know their span is lesser than the nineties, because of T20 formats, because of social media.Akram also pointed out that reducing ODIs to 40-over contests would result in fewer injuries for multi-format bowlers.
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