da brdice： John Bracewell believes the Twenty20 format could revolutionise cricket in the same way one-day internationals have changed the game over the past few decades
Cricinfo staff26-Sep-2007
John Bracewell hopes Twenty20 cricket attracts more children to play the game © Getty Images
John Bracewell believes the Twenty20 format could revolutionise cricket in the same way one-day internationals have changed the game over the past few decades. Bracewell returned to Christchurch on Tuesday after New Zealand’s semi-final exit at the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa and he expressed his satisfaction with the shortest form of the game.”I think it’s got an enormous financial future and I think it has some really good benefits for the game in general in terms of the broad base of the game,” Bracewell told the . “It must have a positive spin-off on kids with the style in which it’s played. There is a great opportunity to revolutionise the whole game of cricket.”Bracewell said 50-over cricket had changed the way Test matches were played and there would be a similar flow-on from Twenty20.”I think this will help the entertainment factor of cricket,” he said. “Test cricket we value greatly, 50-over cricket is the financial driver of the game and now we have Twenty20 which has proved immensely popular.”