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The Sixty, Chris Gayle (Image Credit : Twitter/Cricket Windies)
Caribbean Premier League, which conducts its T20 tournament in the West Indies across six regions, has now launched its T10 edition. The T10 version will start on August 24 and conclude on 28th in St. Kitts right before the CPL T20 tournament. The version is called 'The Sixty' as it has different rules compared to cricket rules set by the MCC.
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The teams will have six wickets each compared to 10 in a normal game. Teams normally get a two-over powerplay but here it will be a three-over powerplay. The team will get one extra over of the powerplay if they hit two sixes in the mandatory two overs of powerplay. Another rule change is the changing of ends after every over.
Generally, bowlers bowl from different ends after every over. Here, they will bowl from the same end for the first five overs. The bowling end will change before the sixth over. The next rule is an interesting one. The removal of one fielder has already been introduced in T20 internationals. In other words, if teams are unable to bowl 10 overs on time, one fielder will be removed.
However, there is only one difference. The rule in International cricket states that the fielding team will have to bring one more fielder inside the 30-yard circle if they are not able to bowl their full quota of over on time. Here, the team would have to field with 10 players, which means the fielder will be removed altogether.
The last rule is a rather interesting one. The fans will be able to vote for 'mystery free hit' via the official app of the 'The Sixty' or the website. After the launch, the cricket fans are apparently upset with the launch of the new format. They feel that the game is in danger and have asked the World Cricket Governing Council to look into the matter. When 'The Hundred' was launched, the fans weren't happy as well.
This is how Twitter reacted
With the new The Sixty format coming in Cricket..
β Siddharth Patil (@psiddharth998) June 22, 2022
@ICC needs to stop these new kinds of format coming in cricket..
Otherwise Cricket as a whole is in dangerπππ
Cricket's that bad, they've had to reduce The Hundred to The Sixty.
β Lee Moore (@LEEM1512) June 22, 2022
Find it hard to believe there's actually a market for this CPL sixty nonsense. There's next to zero interest in the Caribbean for iT20 cricket never mind a domestic shorter format.
β Dan (@Dan1290_) June 22, 2022
Seems more like something you'd come up with if you were marketing to Americans π€
The Hundred: lol hey guys I'm low-key the death of cricket.
β William Atkinson (@WTMAtkinson) June 22, 2022
The Sixty: hold my beer. https://t.co/zzRFt6krVX
All these English cricket pundits and fans talking about the sixty! How about u mind ur own business and tell me why the hell a test match is being held at Headingley tomorrow!!!
β Ash π―π²π¬π© (@bertmanbenji) June 22, 2022
Test -> one day -> T20 -> T10 -> The Hundred -> and now The SIXTY with new rules#Cricket evolution!
β Rana Ghosal (@ranaaissance) June 22, 2022
β Marc Blank-Settle (@MarcSettle) June 22, 2022
SIXTY balls a side?
This is getting silly now.
We had 40 overs a side (240 balls) then the T20 (180) and when that was deemed too much π The Hundred with 100 balls a side.
How short can games meaningfully go?https://t.co/HOZOEc28N6
SIXTY reasons to curse the organizers of this event. Envy sports fans who aren't into cricket and hence retain the privilege of remaining sane !
β Prabhanjan Badami (@PABadami) June 22, 2022
West Indies has introduced sixty-balls format. Earlier England had brought The Hundred. T10 already in the market. T20 is not the only threat to Test cricket. The growing subbranches of T20 have started entering in the cricket market. @ICC please save cricket! pic.twitter.com/elsc4UMJuE
β Ibrahim Malik (@ibrahimalik38) June 22, 2022
Feels inevitable after The Hundred last year. Sixty appears to be an even more condensed version of that format. What I dislike the most about both is the format involves the re-writing of fundamental cricket rules. Moving to a stage where we'll have 2 different sports entirely
β R o s h a n (@imRoshanDas) June 22, 2022
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