I don’t agree with Mr. Santosh Reddy when he says (Express Delivery, March 2002) That cricket should adopt the club system like in football. Mr Reddy gave the example of Michael Owen playing 65 matches a year. But Owen has played hardly 10 international matches for England. India played 14 Test and three one-day triangular series last year and they didn’t get a three-month summer break like footballers do. The amount of cricket played took its toll: Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Zaheer Khan and rahul dravid were all injured during the last season.
Players are retiring early enough as it is and if you have a club system they will retire even earlier. Young allrounders will become a rare breed as it is already very demanding, physically, to do both, bat and bowl successfully on a regular basis.
It is the quality of cricket that matters not the quantity.
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