THE DEBATE: Could T10 be the new T20?

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Possibly, says Mike Gatting (former England captain and chairman of the MCC World Cricket Committee)

It will fill another gap in the calendar. It shows how adaptable cricket is. Ten overs, 20 overs... I think that it’s going to be something people will look at out of interest, but I don’t know if it will take

off. If it does materialise in to something that is going to be viable then I worry that the schedulers will have to look at it all again closely. It’s a worry. The calendar is congested already.

And then things like spot-fixing come up, so it’s another thing that has to be policed. Some asked ‘was 20 overs enough?’ The answer seems to be, ‘yes’. But people have less time now – it could give non-cricket fans a taster. We play six-a-side cricket: the Hong Kong Sixes are very successful. The main worry is the congestion in the schedule.

Where does it stop? asks Angus Fraser (former England seamer and Middlesex director of cricket)

Are we going to reach a stage where we’ll have 20,000 people just turning up to watch a coin toss? There was some scepticism about T20 when it came in too. And we have played five-over games in T20 – that’s the shortest you can play to constitute a game. But, with T10, does it mean you miss three balls in a row and you are retired? There’s a Sixes tournament in Hong Kong, and teams are scoring 100 runs in six overs.

I know the grounds out there are postage stamps, but still... Eoin Morgan is playing in the T10 League. For a week’s work he could potentially face how many balls?

In T20 you’re now looking at the number of 30s in terms of a yardstick of judging how a batsman has contributed. Does that mean we’re now looking at 15s? Will we be saying ‘bloody hell, that was a great 15.’

A two-over spell sounds awesome, says Toby Roland-Jones (England and Middlesex seamer)

It’s an interesting one: a strange concept to get your head around... all that preparation, and then it is going to be over so quickly. As a fast bowler with my run- up, a two-over spell sounds awesome! 

If there’s a crowd and an audience for it, and people enjoy it, then it’s still going to have that excitement of people getting after the ball and trying to hit boundaries.

They have gone hard at it and signed some good players, so fingers crossed it works out. Anything that promotes the game in a positive light can only be a good thing.

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