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[beaver5]

Personally Saturday league cricket is bloody dreadful and I don't know many players that don't believe this either. Your team produce an outstanding performance of getting 250-280ish only for the opposition to block/show no intention of going for the win by just aiming for the losing draw points. This attitude is bound to appear with your format at ODI level if introduced. Also Test side already only pick 4 bowlers for a 5 day game so we'll see it come down to just 2 or 3 and pack the team with batsmen, of which some might bowl a few if needed. The answer as others have said is a balance between bat and ball and stop making it just a slog fest where the teams who can smack it the further wins.

[ProCricketer1982]

Personally Saturday league cricket is bloody dreadful and I don't know many players that don't believe this either. Your team produce an outstanding performance of getting 250-280ish only for the opposition to block/show no intention of going for the win by just aiming for the losing draw points. This attitude is bound to appear with your format at ODI level if introduced. Also Test side already only pick 4 bowlers for a 5 day game so we'll see it come down to just 2 or 3 and pack the team with batsmen, of which some might bowl a few if needed. The answer as others have said is a balance between bat and ball and stop making it just a slog fest where the teams who can smack it the further wins.

The slog is what you get now though ?! Seems to be a lot of 'batting' sides who really can't bowl but can just out slog everyone. It's up there as the most Boring games I play in, even when we win them. The draw brings more tactics, ok so your team 'bat well' for 250 but if you have a strong bowling line up or the oppo are crap then maybe declare earlier to tempt them. Plus teams will have to work more for their wickets rather than rely on batsmen slogging and gifting their wicket away. Currently far too many crap bowling sides who bat  seem to do well which seems wrong

[shazz]

I actually enjoyed the champions trophy a lot this year. The 50 over league cricket is not all that dissimilar to the stuff that the pro's play. It also depends on which teams are playing, England will be boring unless their plan A goes well. 6 and over first pp, 5 an over middle overs, 9 an over last 5-10. But a team like WI will be blazing it from the start, but are susceptible to monumental collapses = boring one sided games. Regardless of runs or wickets its how evenly matched the teams are that'll give a good game!

[The_Bird]

The answer is to spice up the pitches, not change the rules!

This

and a decent amount of altitude helps as well...

http://www.espncricinfo.com/rsavaus/engine/current/match/238200.html

[csnew]

How about letting the fans know that players are going to be rested prior to buying odi tickets. Absolute joke paying soo much for odi tickets to find a "B" team

[Sam]

How about letting the fans know that players are going to be rested prior to buying odi tickets. Absolute joke paying soo much for odi tickets to find a "B" team

It's not really much of a B team. I would presume the team would be :

Wright
Carberry
Trott
Pietersen
Morgan
Stokes or Bopara or Root
Buttler
Tredwell
Rankin
Finn
Overton or Jordan

Except Jordan , Overton and possibly Bopara and Rankin I'd have said most of them would have got in the squad anyway!

Most countries around the world now have about half the test squad missing from their one day squads! Whats wrong with us starting to do the same when we have quite a few one day specialists?

[WalkingWicket37]

Just get rid of all the stupid rules at the amateur level. No restrictions on bowlers, fielders etc. id even say getnridmofmthe rigid 40/45/50/55 overs a side and just have 100 overs a game and first team can bat up to 60 overs. Only rule would be if you bat longer than 45 overs first up you'd get less pts for drawing the game than the oppo ( ie to stop teams just batting all day and hoping the oppo gift their wickets away slogging ).  Bring back the bonus for drawing and force pure batting teams down the league where they deserve

This is a great point. We are seeing so many batting teams in our league who bat first, blast it round and put 9 men on the boundary to defend the total. We need to play timed games in all leagues, then we'd see more captains thinking about how to take wickets, rather than get in the mindset of "blast as many as possible and defend the boundary".
To my mind that would make much more exciting cricket than a 45 over slogathon for both sides.