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ODI cricket need a re-think if this version is to survive and the DL method isn't helping. In fact, the DL method renders a game meaningless like this ongoing ODI between India and Australia.

All too often, DL makes a match too one-sided.

In reply to Emir

The statistical analysis behind DL was to make the game "more balanced"

Before DL, they used run rate and made a linear extrapolation

In reply to Acid

Well they need to look beyond DL for ODI fix, since the advent of T-20, DL for ODI has become almost meaningless.

Example, Aus V India Today. Had Aus knew they had to play a virtual T-20 to win, they surely would have played a different team.

Now , what is needed is this:

1. Reduce the game to 40 overs per side
2. Have 2 innings of 20 overs for each team.
3. Captain Select and name one bowler, at the toss, which cannot be changed, who has no number of overs restriction per innings
4. DL to be replaced by the winner of first innings if the full match was not completed due to weather
5. No result match declared if weather prevents the completion of one full innings- 20 over each team.

In reply to Emir

Nice...tendulkar had proposed something like this with 25 overs a piece and 4 innings.

In reply to Emir

But Australia did know that they needed to score 165 in 21 overs before dey started batting. Australia didn pick a T20 squad so what major changes could they have made to their line up?

And why would you play a two innings a side match and decide the winner after one inning a piece?

In reply to Maispwi

Perhaps you didn't read all that I wrote:

If a match is affected by the weather, and the entire match- 80 overs, was unable to be completed, then the winner will be the team who scored more runs in the first innings.

If at least one innings cannot be completed, then a "no result" match.

In reply to oldcar

Yep, but 25 overs is too long if you are playing two innings.

I am also calling for more power for bowlers by having one bowler who doesn't have a limit and I am also eliminating DL for weather affected matches.

Emir always talks about death..wonder why!

Whatever format India plays,they will make the game prosper..

Emirasole, none of those are your ideas..stop plagiarizing

In reply to Emir

The changes you ask for will make the game more complex and the essence of the game is lost.

164 off 21 overs is a huge ask but it is the same with the bowling teams. In T20's you have specialist T20 bowlers who would be able to contain the batsmen which the team selected for ODI might not have.

There is a reason to feel the change is little steep when you consider India scored less than 6 an over but that has to do more with the algorithm used that the outcome. For all we know minor changes in the algorithm could give you a more even challenge than the complex suggestions you ask for.

I would say whichever way you change the final RRR should not be more than 2 runs a over. For example if the Team A scored at 5 runs an over, Which ever way you calculate the end RRR should not be more than 7.