Sachin Tendulkar terms two new balls in ODIs the ‘perfect recipe for disaster’

Legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar recently took to Twitter to express his displeasure on two new balls used in ODI and termed it as the ‘perfect recipe for disaster’.

Interestingly, in 2011 when the ICC brought in the concept of two new balls, it was done to help bowlers to strive towards coming at equal footing with the batsmen. However, it turned out to be the opposite and it is the system of two new balls that has led to the nemesis of quick bowlers.

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Sachin wrote, “Having 2 new balls in one day cricket is a perfect recipe for disaster as each ball is not given the time to get old enough to reverse. We haven’t seen reverse swing, an integral part of the death overs, for a long time.”

Extending Sachin’s point of diminishing reverse swing further, Pakistani great Waqar Younis said that this is the reason why the world is not producing quality pacers.

“Reason why we don’t produce many attacking fast bowlers..They all very defensive in their approach…always looking for change ups..totally agree with you @sachin_rt reverse swing is almost vanished.. SAD,” he posted.

Sometime earlier, West Indian legendary pacer Michael Holding had also expressed his concern on it saying, “The white ball behaves a little bit differently to the red ball. If the manufacturers can get the white ball to behave similarly to the red ball, you would have to look at two new balls as well.

“If you had two red balls, because years ago, if you had two red balls, bowlers would have dominated. With two white balls the bowlers have no chance of dominating because the balls don’t do enough.”