Legendary Australian wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist believes that the one-day format is on an irreversible slide and will be “history” in three years, says a report in The Business Line.
“I reckon about three years, as I see it, and it will be pretty much gone,” Gilchrist said.
“There is a World Cup in 2015 — I believe TV deals are all locked away to get to that, and those commitments will be fulfilled. But after that I think it will be history. I suspect that one-day cricket may be obsolete in about three years’ time,” he added.
“I suspect that after that the appetite for it might diminish, and all the TV programmers and the administrators will be focusing on the two other forms (Twenty20 and Test cricket). Twenty20, let’s face it, is the revenue stream that keeps the longer version alive”, Gilchrist said.
Meanwhile, The Times of India quoted Gilchrist saying, “The World Cup is the world's fourth-biggest sporting event. It's got a viewing audience of a billion people. Our own research shows when you measure the affection of cricket with the Australian public that ODI cricket has still got a lot of life left in its legs."