With the Twenty20, cricket at the crossroads

Since 2003, the Twenty20, a shorter and more publicized form of traditional cricket, has saved this British sport from its torpor. And now risks to cause his loss.
South African Hashim Amla faces Zimbabwe on September 20 in Sri Lanka at the Twenty20 World Cup Venue of PSL 2018.
English traditions are not what they used to be. At least on the cricket grounds, the second most followed sport in the world after football . Since 2003, this game quintessential "British way of life" - which, according to the former president of the French Federation Didier Marchois, was invented in northern France in the XIII th century - took a decisive turn from the appearance of the Twenty20, a variant faster than the traditional form, and whose World Cup takes place from September 16 to October 8 in Sri Lanka .

A classic cricket match, called "series cricket" , usually takes place over several days, during which the drummers of each team must run as many "runs" as possible to score the maximum points. When the 11 drummers of the opposing team are eliminated, it is the turn of the team that started to beat in turn. In "T20", each team has a single round of twenty rounds of throws to score , and a match lasts about three hours. That's little more than a football match, which lasts between 105 and 145 minutes, half-time included. No more ceremonial "tea-time" , ""drink-time" and long afternoons spent in the stands under the sun, a Pim's or a beer in hand. Place to the show and the suspense.
Venue of PSL 2018

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