0ٽيسٽ ميچ ۾ ڪرڪيٽ - اسان ان کي ڪيئن محفوظ ڪندا?

مارچ ۾ واپس گذريل سال (واہ, حقيقت ۾ ته وڏيون اڳ??) مون کي اچي ئي سالن ۾ ٽيسٽ ميچ ۾ ڪرڪيٽ جي مستقبل ۽ جيڪي شڪار ڪرڻ لاء ايڏو وڏو ٿئي جي باري ۾ هڪ مختصر missive penned. بيٽنگ ۽ بال وچ ۾ هڪ دلچسپ ٻٻر کي ڏسڻ سان متاثر ٿي چڪو آهي جيئن بنگلاديش سري لنڪا کي وٺي ويو پر مان راندين جي باري ۾ ڏاyrو حيران ۽ شاندار جنگ ۽ حڪمت عملي جو اثر, سٺي جاچ. بدقسمتي سان, توهان ياد رکو پيارا پڙهندڙ, مضمون تنهن هوندي به هڪ اداس نوٽ تي ٻڌل هو - ميڙ - يا وڌيڪ صحيح طور تي ميڙ جي کوٽ - مقابلي ۾ خوش ٿي.

ڪيتريون ئي حڪمت وارو (۽ ڪجهه نادانن) آزمائشي ميچ ڪرڪيٽ جي دعوائن کي وڌيڪ بهتر طور تي ڪيئن وڌائڻ لاءِ سوچن جي چاپ رکي ڇڏيو آهي. ٽيسٽ ميچ ڪرڪيٽ هڪ ڊسپلن آهي جنهن کي مرڻ جي اجازت نه هجڻ گهرجي. اهو ڪرڪيٽ جو بنياد آهي ۽ شاندار راند جي بلڪل مٿان. If test match crick­et dies then so too does the heart and soul of the sport.

Few argu­ments or sug­ges­tions have suc­ceeded in per­suad­ing me that they offer a solu­tion in safe­guard­ing this future, تنهن هوندي به. Vari­ous examples have been thrust for­ward but they have ten­ded to be ill-thought out and too simple. A test match league is one such brain­wave. All well and good on paper but not so simple in prac­tice. A level play­ing field would be too dif­fi­cult to achieve because of the num­ber oppos­ing vari­ables that define the game. The rank­ing sys­tem is already daft and in need of reform and a league table would no doubt have its found­a­tions in it. Play­ing less or more crick­et is anoth­er sug­ges­tion – but which? Less test match crick­et and how do the asso­ci­ate nations ever hope to get a look in if you reduce the num­ber of games and keep it to already estab­lished sides? More crick­et and there’s the risk of dilut­ing the product and filling an already busy fix­ture list. What about cheap­er tick­ets? Neces­sary but unlikely to res­ult in massive gains overnight.

So I have devised a far more rad­ic­al approach – some­thing new to throw into the melt­ing pot that takes our think­ing much more out­side the box. If it has been sug­ges­ted pre­vi­ously, مون کي اڃان تائين ته اهو ٻڌي ڪري وڃان.

There is no doubt that T20 crick­et, and in par­tic­u­lar the Indi­an Premi­er League is a suc­cess if you meas­ure it in the crude terms of com­mer­cial and fin­an­cial mark­ers and the massive media cov­er­age it enjoys. هن ويب سائيٽ تي سنڌي فونٽس, اڪثر منهنجي پنهنجي هٿ مان, have cri­ti­cised the IPL and T20 crick­et in gen­er­al for a lack of class and I am not depart­ing from that view. It remains in my mind a glor­i­fied game of base­ball, rep­res­ent­ing the crass celebrity cul­ture in which we live with bright lights, loud bangs and that bloody horn in the audi­ence thrown in for good meas­ure. آئون آهيان, تنهن هوندي به, a real­ist and recog­nise that we can’t beat it, پوء ان کي ڇو شامل نه (هڪ حد تائين).

My sug­ges­tion is that we keep on play­ing test match crick­et as we cur­rently do, per­haps with a tinker­ing around the edges and a review of the rank­ings sys­tem. Then at the end of the year we have a new com­pet­i­tion which is a T20 play off between the test teams. It will replace the IPL so that the celebrit­ies will still have an event they can get involved with and those not able or unwill­ing to appre­ci­ate the subtle nuances of test crick­et can fol­low. All money made from the event will then be fed back into the test match arena – to help devel­op the discipline.

تون به ان جي مٿي سا گڏيو ڪري سگهو ٿا. Each test team would be able to add to the side a set num­ber of play­ers (per­haps 2) of any nation­al­ity who haven’t played test match crick­et before or have retired – one of each. It would have to be a small num­ber so as to either stop entirely or greatly reduce the num­ber of play­ers who retire from the test arena so they can stick to play­ing a few weeks a year for a big fat pay cheque in the IPL

Restric­tions would also be placed on test sides to pre­vent them pick­ing play­ers in their test squad who they nev­er use but are kept as T20 specialists.

It could also be used as an oppor­tun­ity for Asso­ci­ate Mem­bers to try and gain test level status. The test team that is ranked low­est going into the tour­na­ment is at risk of los­ing their test status if they fail to per­form in the competition.

اهو صحيح حل نه آهي ۽ آئون ان کي وڻي ڪرڻ جي ٻين طريقن ڏانهن کليل آهيان جيئن بالآخر هي پئسا ڪمائڻ جي ضرورت آهي. هڪ ٽيسٽ ميچ ۾ Snob جيئن (مان هن اصطلاح کي عزت وارو ٻلو استعمال ڪندو آهيان) مون کي مقابلي ۾ ڪابه دلچسپي ڪانه هوندي پر جيڪڏهن اها اسان جي شاندار راند کي محفوظ رکڻ ۾ مدد ڪري ته پوءِ اسان کي انهي کي ڏسڻو پوندو.