Twenty20

I’ve begun to like watching cricket all over again. The last time I watched the sport was back in 2000 sometime during the match-fixing scandals. I was completely let down by the turn of events then that I vowed never to watch it again. That was then.

This evening’s India-Pakistan’s Twenty20 final at South Africa changed all that. Perhaps it has partly got to do with the environment I watched the match in. The student council here at NID had organized a neat projection system at the mess. The large screen with a good crowd bought in the added excitement in watching the action. Never had I seen a crowd that was so charged during a game, like today. Every ball was cheered and watched with anticipation for a stroke of something exciting. It was fantastic.

I think the T20 format is quite an interesting concept. Its an attractive option for attention deficit folks like me, who’d want to know the results soon. I’d like to call the T20 as ‘cricket with constraints’. As in design, when you have to deal with constraints – you are pushed to be creative. Thats when you are forced to make better use of time and resources available to you. Twenty 20, I feel is something like that. Its brings out the best in players as everyone is forced to perform in such a short span of time. Certainly, less is more!