{"id":188877,"date":"2026-07-02T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188877"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:51:44","slug":"t20s-here-to-stay-not-so-sure-about-odis-r-ashwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188877","title":{"rendered":"T20s here to stay, not so sure about ODIs: R Ashwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71174307\">European T20 Premier League (ETPL) is a necessary addition in the existing assortment of franchise-based tourneys as the format is here to stay unlike ODIs, said Indian spin bowling legend Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwin will captain the Dublin Guardians franchise in the ETPL.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s second highest wicket-taker in Test cricket said that leagues have a role to play in making the sport go global, particularly with cricket featuring in the LA 2028 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I think there\u2019s an Olympics that\u2019s going to happen in a couple of years. And if cricket as a game is pretty serious about making it a global affair, the teams in this league will play a very crucial part in enabling that,\u201d said Ashwin.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwin feels the only way to globalise the game is via the T20 format. \u201cOur job will be purely on T20 cricket and how it can get better. And if the game has to become global and it has to become an Olympic sport, the shorter the game, the more viable it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to become much bigger. And you will see a better sample size of players, which is also very critical for several of these leagues which run through the year. T20 as a sport is here to stay. I\u2019m not too sure about ODI cricket,\u201d said Ashwin.<\/p>\n<p>For Ashwin, the league is more about the Scottish, the Irish and the Dutch players getting to showcase their talent in a high quality environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe owe it to the Dublin franchise and also Irish cricket in many ways, try and enable them, try and probably provide them with the right amount of exposure and opportunities,\u201d said the legendary off-spinner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make it about them. And that\u2019s something that we were very clear the first day Rahul (Dravid as team owner) and I spoke about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we will stay very true to that particular formula. And we will put up a culture where cricket is played in a fashion that everyone wants to grow at least by one person every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ashwin also spoke about how adaptation is key to any sport and how conditions can even out contests as one saw in the recent series where India lost 0-2 to Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be able to adapt. The name of the game is adaptation, which is why what happened recently between India and Ireland in that T20 series is a classic example of how conditions can eliminate a lot of aspects of the game that have been developed as a root cause of T20 as a sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"sub_head\">Would love to see England players in ETPL: Waugh<\/h4>\n<p>For Amsterdam Flames co-owner Steve Waugh, while the aim is to develop the untapped talent in the European region, he did admit that getting the current England T20 stars to take part in ETPL during coming years will provide a big boost to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it wasn\u2019t my choice for that (top English players not being part). And yeah, it\u2019d be nice to have English players there, perhaps sometime in the future,\u201d said Waugh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019re looking at developing players in Europe that haven\u2019t had the big opportunities in the past. They really haven\u2019t been able to showcase their skills. And this is what this tournament\u2019s about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019d be good to have England have more of a presence in the league. Hopefully, once it\u2019s established, obviously, it\u2019s starting in about eight weeks\u2019 time, everybody will see how great this competition is going to be, the quality, the players, the standard,\u201d Waugh signed off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jul 02, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/t20s-future-of-cricket-not-sure-odis-says-ravichandran-ashwin-european-t20-premier-league-development-associate-nations\/article71174307.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European T20 Premier League (ETPL) is a necessary addition in the existing assortment of franchise-based tourneys as the format is here to stay unlike ODIs, said Indian spin bowling legend Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday. Ashwin will captain the Dublin Guardians franchise in the ETPL. India\u2019s second highest wicket-taker in Test cricket said that leagues have &#8230; <a title=\"T20s here to stay, not so sure about ODIs: R Ashwin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188877\" aria-label=\"Read more about T20s here to stay, not so sure about ODIs: R Ashwin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2049.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188439,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=188439","url_meta":{"origin":188877,"position":0},"title":"R Ashwin joins ETPL franchise Dublin Guardians as captain and mentor","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Former India cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin has joined European T20 League franchise Dublin Guardians as captain and mentor ahead for the inaugural edition of the competition, the team announced on social media on Friday. 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