A test of the one-day format’s popularity
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One-day international cricket in India is an anomaly. While the world - including players like Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar - seems sated with the 50-over game, especially with meaningless seven-match bilateral series, the upcoming contest between India and Australia is likely to be received well by the home audience. Three-odd commercials squeezed in after each over works well for the broadcasters, international cricket in smaller centres works well for the public there.
Over the next three weeks, though, we will know if times are changing in India as they are in the rest of the world. The Champions League Twenty20, with its largely thin crowds, will have just finished when the two top-ranked teams start their series - only ODIs, no Tests nor Twenty20s.
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