Are domestic T20 leagues improving the quality of cricketers overall?

Well, in my opinion, though I would say that domestic T20 tournaments help for the development of sports in India, I cannot just say that it has also helped to improve the quality of cricketers overall. Just as the experts say, the true talent of a cricketer can only be proved in the test matches. Test matches test a player's cricketing skill, temperament, attitude and the will to succeed. All these traits can never just be attained in a single T20 match which roughly lasts for around 3 hours!

Also, 5-day test matches ending in just a couple of days has become a common trend these days, mainly because of the inability of players to adapt themselves to different forms of cricket after the introduction of T20 tournaments. Of course, you cannot say that a player doesn't learn anything from T20, as these matches help a player to believe in his abilities irrespective of the stiff target and teaches them to handle pressure situations with a cool head. But the problem is the mindset of players coming from the background of T20 tournaments who possess overconfidence, lack of patience thereby trying too many unnecessary shots in the quest of making quick runs as soon as they enter their grease!

Another important concern is that after all the money that these young cricketers start getting in IPL, ICL and other similar leagues so early in their cricketing career, many of them get lost in space and fail to concentrate on their Cricket then and thereafter. This can be attributed to the fact that once when a particular player excels in IPL for a particular franchise advertisers flock him with various ad campaigns, promising hefty sum of money and signing long-term contracts with them, say even for the next 5 or 10 years! Once, a poor boy from a rural background sees all these money, he starts focusing on participating in several ad campaigns thinking that he should make hay while the sun shines. Also, since his life becomes financially secure, slowly and steadily his focus drifts away from sports practice sessions paving way for the downfall of his career, as is the case with several IPL stars who made their way and disappeared all of a sudden from the Indian National T20 team.

 So to conclude, T20 tournaments can only identify the best of the best talents and it is the efforts taken by a particular player once he gets the opportunity at the grand stage that really improves his overall quality.

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Let us start an interesting discussion now. Various T20 tournaments such as IPL, TNPL, KPL and similar such tournaments have become popular than ever before. But the quality of the players who have been handpicked based on their performance in such tournaments for the Indian National team has not been up to the mark. So we say that domestic T20 leagues have failed to improve the quality of cricketers. Have a different perspective? You are invited to share your opinion here in the comments section below.

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