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Last updated 21th November 2010

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The future of One Day International (ODI) cricket seems to be very uncertain. The effects of Twenty20 cricket (a.k.a Pro20 or T20) seem to be having a negative influence on the ODI game. Cricket Australia has said that the 2015 Cricket World Cup scheduled for Australia is not marketable. The England Cricket Board has scarped their domestic 50-over competition and replaced it with a 40-over game, while in South Africa we play a 45 over game in the MTN Domestic Championships.

Some people have suggested that the ODI game be split into two innings of 25 overs. I think this is a terrible idea; we’re just going to land up with two Twenty20 games in one.

There is simply too much Twenty20 cricket on the go, this year we’ve watched our domestic Twenty20 competition (the Standard Bank Pro20), the Indian Premier League (IPL), the ICC World Twenty20, and we’ll soon watch the Champions League and a few Twenty20 Internationals. That simply is more that a cricket enthusiast can absorb. I do believe there is a place for Twenty20 cricket, it should be use to grow the game and be used as an exhibition, the IPL, Champions league and world cups should be played where cricket is young and needs to be developed.

I have been watching cricket for about twenty years now, and I am a purest at heart. If we allow Twenty20 cricket to impact the ODI game, then it will surely have an impact on the format of test cricket, and we simply cannot allow that to happen.

The following article is a good read on the subject, and a source of some of the above: ODI Cricket on death row

This is the first of our video posts on SA Cricket Blog, and it’s the start of many more as we bring you unbelievable catches, ludicrous  run outs and magical batting. In the first video you’ll see Martin van Jaarsveld run past the keeper from first slip and take a catch at leg slip. It truly is amazing and helped the Titans to win the MTN Domestic Championship 2008/9.

Eagles v Titans, MTN Domestic Championship final, Bloemfontein

January 17, 2009

The Titans won their second successive MTN Domestic Championship by beating the Eagles in Bloemfontein. The Titans bowling attack was lead by Paul Harris with a career best 5 for 27. The Eagles innings ended on 138. The Titans opening pair of Bodi and Snijman then made light work of the total and both made half centuries with Snijman not out on 53.

Having chosen to field the Titans opened the bowling with Roelof van der Merwe a left-arm spin bowler. The strategy worked perfectly and the Eagles were in trouble before the fifth over, after their poor start the Eagles had no chance of recovery as Harris took the lower order apart.

Bodi and Snijman showed that the bounce and consistency of the pitch wasn’t the problem and powered to an opening stand of 125. Setting up the victory for the Titans.

The players and management of the Titans should be proud of the team that they have built over the years, it’s starting to bear fruit with the Titans considered the best limited overs team in South Africa, currnetly holding both the MTN Domestic Championship and the Standard Bank Pro20 titles.