From Varun Dhyani, United Kingdom

I am a technical man and view the entire game on technical ground. Not that the game does not interest me. There has been lot of discussion on sustaining and expanding cricket's popularity. Particularly in context with Test Cricket which is really threatened due to lack of public interest. I have a suggestion here to keep the people's interest glued to the game.

Cricket revolves, technically, around ball, bat and pitch. If 'variable' component is introduced in pitch or bat or ball, game would become interesting. Say for example, use of new, 30 overs and 60 overs ball on certain conditions and rules. Imagine a match where the opening batsman has got right to tell umpire to start with 30 over ball.

Or when bowler takes a wicket he given the opportunity to decide what age of ball to be used. And if both the batsman score 50 runs between them without loosing wicket, they given chance to say which ball they want further.

Another way is letting both sides allow play as much innings they want in a 5 day Test Cricket Period. At the end of 5th day, the average per innings would decide who won the match.

There are many ways where some twist and turns could be brought in ball (different weight), innings(more innings) and number of players(more players allowed). It would bring lot of interest in the game to the crowd who are already watching cricket and also among those who never watched and have conventional image of the Test Cricket