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Mumbai: Former Australia captain and World Cup-winning coach Bob Simpson feels there is no need to tamper with the structure of One-day cricket which has come under scanner due to the growing popularity of Twenty20 format.
The mantra of the former Test opener to rejuvenate the 50-over game is to make the teams strive for wickets and win matches, make pitches livelier as well as lengthen the boundaries as was the case when One-day cricket began.
Simpson, on a brief stop-over with his wife in Mumbai which was one of the 45 ports his cruise was touching, was responding to champion batsman Sachin Tendulkar's suggestion to split the ODIs into four innings of 25 overs each.
"I don't think we have to fiddle too much with it. We need to get the players and the administrators believe that you win matches by bowling teams out," he said in a brief chat at the Cricket Club of India before rejoining his cruise.
Simpson, one of the finest slip fielders and the first foreign coaching consultant of the Indian team during the 1999 World Cup, said the tactics being adopted in 50 overs game by teams has become boring.
"When one-day cricket was introduced, everybody said this will save the game. The public has got tired of one-day cricket because tactics were boring. It just got to a stage where there was so much over emphasis on batting and so-called all-rounders that the overall standard of bowling dropped dramatically," he said.
