'Tendulkar sahab said that...' - Ajay Jadeja jokes on Sachin Tendulkar's 'ODI cricket is getting boring' statement

When it comes to cricket, there is no doubt that the former legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has better knowledge than most people out there about the game as he is probably the best cricketer to ever play the game. Tendulkar recently talked about how the ODI format is losing its thrill and why it is getting boring and too predictable.

While talking about the 50-over format, Tendulkar suggested that some changes could be made to make the format interesting. He said the ODI format lose its momentum from the 15^th over to the 40^th over. However, former Indian cricketer Ajay Jadeja jokingly talked about the same and said that teams don’t want to stretch the game to 40 overs.

“The master has made his statement, there are no doubts about that. But the thing is those who have played have accepted that. They stopped that game between the 15th and 40th overs. They are not even going till there. All the problems that we had with predictability, and boring, they are all gone now,” joked Jadeja on Cricbuzz.

“Tendulkar sahab said that the 15-40 over period is getting boring, these guys said we won't even play until the 40th over,” said Jadeja.

This format has changed according to the period: Ajay Jadeja

Jadeja also recalled the time when there was no 30-yard circle in the ODI cricket and all the nine fielders can be placed on the boundary. He also said that earlier there was no white ball and the ODI matches used to play with the red ball.

“People of a certain generation would remember that this one day cricket used to happen at one time without a 30-yard circle. You could send all nine fielders to the boundary. That became boring so the concept of the circle was brought in, and then to compensate for conditions in Australia, two new balls were brought in. Back when one day cricket started it used to be played with the red ball and that made the game entirely different,” Jadeja added.

“This format has changed according to the period it was played in and different kinds of teams won or lost matches. You cannot change the science, the 22 yards and the five-and-a-half ounce remains the same but the nature of the seam and how it has behaved after making contact with the pitch has changed with the ball. So one year players had Marutis in their hands and the next Ferraris and then we would think the guy with the Ferrari is going pretty fast. This game has kept on changing and today the boys showed,” Jadeja concluded.