The Art of Cricket

 Cricket happens to be one of  man’s inventions. As man’s nature has changed over the years for the survival in the best way, cricket especially world cup has constantly kept changing. Let’s have a look how world cup have been modified in the last few years.

When the world cup first commenced, players had to attempt hard to score a total of 200 and odd. In today’s game, even a 300 has been a lesser score to be targeted, even in the most difficult pitches. In earlier world cups, every team used to sport plain whites. Now each team has their unique attire, bathed in colours, which keeps changing over the years. In earlier days, cricket pitches were not used to be that enormous and eye-catching. Today, these are high, mighty and magnificent. In earlier world cups, fielding standards were fixed for years. But, these days all the teams improve the standards dramatically.

Moreover, the original world cup format was 60 overs. It eventually got reworked to 50. Shorter format have been more popular among the audience. The world cup has been profitable to many industries affiliated with it like, Hotel Management. Due to growing popularity of world cups, the ICC shifted its headquarters from UK to UAE to be closer to the rest of the world. The number of teams competing in the world cup has increased to 14.

Technology has affected the transparency for judging world cups using helicopter shots and spider cams. With the help of third refrees and snickometers game has transformed itself to something modern and relatable. Getting technical, there are only two powerplays now during both of which  only 2 players are allowed outside the box. Initially, no new ball allowed on the pitch. The rules changed and one new ball was allowed. Now, the world cup sports 2 new ball changes. And finally, the bats have changed drastically since the first world cup, becoming bigger and thicker. Seeing the scenario, we can expect from the world cup to sport more changes for the betterment of the circle of cricket.