The founder of Twenty20 cricket has warned against overkilling the format.
Stuart Robertson, who devised Twenty20 a decade ago in his role as marketing manager with the England and Wales Cricket Board, believes it should be mostly reserved for domestic competitions in cricket nations, or as a vehicle to take the sport into new markets such as the United States or China.
Robertson, now the corporate director at Hampshire County Cricket Club, told Australian Associated Press: “Twenty20 was always designed as a game for counties or states or provinces and it was devised to address the declining audiences at domestic level [in county cricket].
“I don’t mind Twenty20s being used as a curtain raiser for an international series, to have one or two to whet the appetite for more cricket coming up, so long as they don’t over-do it. If nothing else gives there is a risk of there being too much Twenty20.”
