Recently there has been discussions on the continuous amount of non-stop cricket that cricketers are playing nowadays. With the popularity of T20 and tournaments like IPL and world cup T20 , the fatigue factor among the players has even increased further. So its high time that we find a solution to the non-stop cricket that cricketers play nowadays. Also as a spectator we dont want the amount of cricket to reduce. Also the cricket boards and sponsors dont want to lose money because of less cricket.
Keeping these points in mind i have tried to find a Mathematical solution for this problem. I think the main reason for fatigue is that players play too many matches during a certain period of time , like they play say 3 tests and 8 ODIs in one month. That puts a tremendous amount of pressure on their body. For this purpose , i think a rule should be made that you are allowed to play only certain number of matches during a period of time.
To make this rule i think certain point should be given to tests , ODIs and T20s. For example 10 points for a test , 5 points for an ODI and 3 points for a T20. Now if a player plays one test match and one ODI , then he has 10+5=15 points. Now we should make a rule such that a player doesnt exceed certain amount of points in the last few days. Like we can make a rule like a player should not have more than 50 points in the last 30 days. Now if a player's point exceeds than 50 , then he should rest for few days and let his number of points reduce .Then again he can play. For example - Suppose a player has 50 points between 4th june to 4th july , and suppose he has played a test match between 5th june to 9th june... now points between 10th june to 10th july is 40 . So the player cant play between 5th july to 9th july , but can play on 10th july.This rule stops players from playing non-stop cricket continuously.
Now many people may argue that why shouldn't a team play his best player if he is fully fit. But i think if the team management does its calculations correctly then it can stop the player from playing in non-important matches and save him for crucial matches .Also the team's bench strength gets tested. A team having a pool of good players will succeed. Also the amount of cricket played doesnt reduce and hence spectators , boards and sponsors are happy.
I know this idea is not 100% correct. But i think my modifying this idea we can certainly come up with some solution for this fatigue problem.
Please post your valuable comments. DO let me know about my idea and the modifications to this idea.
6 comments:
Absolutely fabulous idea..you deserve something on the 18th of July :)
I dnt see much of logic in ur idea. This kind of ideas will not work at all. I have couple of constraints striked immediately on reading:
1. What happens when a player is not eligible but fully fit mentally n physically and he is crucial for the team...i mean if Yuvraj singh is not eligible to play a match in a series, say last match of it and india must win.....can anybody go by the rules like this???
@ kiran
Thanks for ur reply... i have already raised ur point in my article if u see carefuly.... i said we can manage these things with some calculations if we do it carefully... why play yuvraj singh in non-imp matches and risk his knee injury ?? for example - why play yuvraj singh in the match against ireland in T20 world cup, when u know that u are already through to super 8. so i think we shld think logically and rest our players in non-imp player.
And why shld we depend on a particular yuvraj singh.. we shld try to develop a pool of players having capabilities like yuvi.. then the winner of the matches will be the team having the best 15 or 20 players rather than 11 players.. why dont we think in this way??
waiting for ur reply...
@somdas,
For resting key players in a non-important match, u dnt require any mathematical calculation. one's common sense is sufficient to do that. Why they dnt do???? Its a million dollar question one has to find out answer for that.
So far as creation of pool of talent is concerned, nobody is against that but it requires lot of willingness from the team mgt.
Anyways congrats for ur thoughts!!
@ kiran.. i know , it requires common sense.. but ppl dont use common sense , we shld force them to use common sense..:-)
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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