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Changing Times

One Day Internationals have been tweaked about a dozen times over the past 5 years. Nothing has come out of it. It has only contributed to making people less interested in that part of the game due to these many changes. Not everyone gets to keep up with the change in rules. But, when it happens on these many occasions in such a short time, a viewer who comes back to watch a game is put off considering that he finds himself not understanding the new rules. Change is good. But, too much will only lead to cricket as a product losing its old customers. Keeping all old customers and attracting new ones is always a good mechanism which the ICC don't seem to understand. They keep making changes to the ODIs hoping for increase in viewership, but ultimately end up losing viewers who aren't keeping up with the rule changes on a day to day basis. A captain on the field who is reacting more than acting is said to be behind the game always and ends up short of achieving success. This...