England's World Cup
winning captain Eoin Morgan says “cricket's 10-overs format would be ideal for
a global multi-sport event such as the Olympics as the entire tournament could
be squeezed into 10 days”.
Cricket featured at the 1900
Olympics and was played in the 1998 Commonwealth Games but has largely been
absent from multi-sport events, which some say has restricted its growth beyond
the traditional pockets.
The 2022 Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham will feature a women's Twenty20 competition but Morgan says the T10
format would be a better fit than T20, 50 overs or Test cricket.
"The one thing that T10
offers above the three formats that makes it so appealing to an Olympic Games
or a Commonwealth Games is the fact that you can play a whole tournament in the
space of 10 days" he said in a video conference.
"When you can play a cricket
tournament in eight-10 days it really does make it appealing, and on top of
that it really would be extremely entertaining," said the 33-year-old, who
captains Delhi Bulls in the Abu Dhabi T10 league.
But he believed it was also
challenging.
"But if you look at a T10
game, the earlier overs are the most important. You need to make the most of
that very short powerplay, so who you put in those key positions and in the
form that they're in, is the most critical factor."
