But in this age of instant karma, the organizers still want more sex out of the game. Here comes the controversial 'strategy break' between the innings. While some wonder if this is just to give more air time to slot hungry broadcasters and advertisers, I could think of more exciting ways to strategize the game.
Ok here it goes...
before the start of the match, the teams should be given a 10 min 'strategic negotiation' slots. In this case, one team can make the other team an offer, to have a particular player not bat/bowl in exchange for a fixed amount of runs/wickets. e.g. if Royal Challengers are fairly confident that Sehwag from the Daredevils is likely to score at least 35 runs in the match based on recent/past form, they can offer the Daredevils 30 runs (35 or less basically) in lieu of Sehwag not batting in the innings. To prevent the cricket match from completely becoming a strategy and negotiation play, such offers could be restricted to 3 players per team etc. This in a sense reflects the confidence level of the opposition team against a particular player.
While there could skepticism about this knocking down TRPs as there'd be lesser cricket, the live 'reality tv' broadcast element of the 'Strategic Negotiation' would only shoot up the TRPs given the recent fascination of the public towards this sickening show format.
Well, while you may wonder about the role of my Strategy lineage in such thoughts, if you look closely, this is likely to to create more job opportunities in my current profession of a quant wannabe, which is fairly important given the dearth of such opportunities in my current industry....
Hey......who woke me up!!!!
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