5 Changes that can help reinvigorate ODI cricket

4. Limits on boundaries:

While cricket grounds in Australia have huge boundaries and England and South Africa have decent standard ones, the stadiums in New Zealand, and almost all the ones in the sub-continent, have shockingly small boundaries. Hence, you see batsmen nonchalantly smiting bowlers over the boundary ropes without much effort in the sub-continent and on grounds in New Zealand. Hell, even outside edges sail over for sixes there. This results in massive scores but hardly any entertaining cricket. The bowlers are forced to bowl flat and the matches become insipid to watch. To reduce the sport to a spectacle of boundaries and sixes is doing it great disservice. There should hence be a strict standard set by the apex cricket body regarding the boundary limit – of about 70 yards straight and about 75 yards on both the square boundaries – and every cricket playing nation in the world should be made to follow it. This will give a boost to the bowlers in several ways and make games more evenly contested and exciting.