[j_lev]

Cricket is a great example of where disruption created a larger pie for the incumbent. Kerry Packer popularised the One Day International at a time where the (five day) Tests were on their last legs, which in turn re-ignighted interest in the Tests.

Cricket has experienced no other disruption prior or since.

[redindian75]

what about the latest craze T20? It's a multibillion dollar industry! Tho I am too much of a purist to watch it often, Its far more monetarily successful than the last disruption. Its tailor made for 2000s generation who dont want to sit thro a whole day to enjoy cricket

[batiudrami]

The funny thing is I love Test cricket and I love T20 - but have no time for One Dayers. Even though it was created first, it just strikes me as being the worst of both worlds.

[j_lev]

incremental improvement

[notahacker]

It pays vastly more than Test and One Day cricket, has radically shifted the balance between batting attack and defence (including in the One Day Cricket played today) by making strike rates matter more than batting averages, has made superstars of players that would have previously been considered severely lacking in defensive technique, encouraged athletic fielding and made Indian franchises an attractive and lucrative destination for overseas players. And probably made generations of kids grow up not wanting to be bowlers! That's a pretty radical set of changes.

[j_lev]

I agree with all points regarding the impact.

The reason Twenty20 was incremental was because it took an entrepreneur like Packer, with connections and money, to prove that cricket could even be changed in the first place.