Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar who attended the IDBI Federal Life Insurance Mumbai Half Marathon pre-event gave suggestions to revive Test cricket.
Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar who attended the IDBI Federal Life Insurance Mumbai Half Marathon pre-event gave suggestions to revive Test cricket.
He stated that ‘interesting’ pitches could revive Test cricket and that flat and dead tracks are only going to pose challenging.
“Test cricket is going to revive if we produce interesting tracks, but if the tracks are flat and dead, then Test cricket is going to find its challenges. I know, this Test World Championship has been announced but even to have this World Championship, you got to make cricket interesting. Just by having a Championship, cricket is not going to get interesting,” Tendulkar said.
Taking the example of the Ashes series, Tendulkar said that the fight to win in the series made it easy for people to forget the World Cup.
“(Steve) Smith got injured, unfortunately, that was a big blow to him but Test cricket was exciting when Jofra Archer challenged him. The focus shifted to Test cricket, people almost kind of forgot that four weeks ago, there was World Cup being played in England, nobody is talking about that, everyone is talking about Test cricket, because it is challenging and exciting,” Tendulkar added.
The Master Blaster also heaped praises for Marnus Labuschagne, who struck three consecutive half-centuries since coming on as a replacement for Smith.
“I have been watching a little bit of Ashes and I thought someone like Marnus Labuschagne left the ball brilliantly. It’s something you don’t get to see in Test cricket. Normally those deliveries… because of the kind of surfaces that one has been playing (on), you tend to glide those balls to the third man and pick a single and go to the non-strikers’ end… but the kind of surfaces they are playing on, you steer the ball (and) you will go to the dressing room. So you need to leave those balls or defend solidly, and the guys who haven’t been able to do that, have been watching the game from the dressing room.”
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