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Test colleague Rahul Dravid has backed Sachin Tendulkar's suggestion to refurbish the ODIs by splitting the format into four innings of 25 overs each.
"It is an attractive suggestion. I don't know why the ICC has discarded it (Tendulkar's suggestion via a letter to ICC), but it's a good idea that Sachin has given and is worth experiment," said India's batting foundation on the England tour, on the sidelines of a promotional event for 'Gillette' in Mumbai, Wednesday night.
"It has been try out in Australia (in domestic cricket) and the plus and minus point should be look into," he added.
Tendulkar had written a letter to the ICC to change the arrangement of the ODIs from two innings of 50 overs to four of 25 overs, like a Test match, but the world council's chief administrative, Haroon Lorgat, had rejected it.
"There is no need to change the format," Lorgat told journalists in Colombo on Wednesday.
"We did be given a written proposal from Sachin, but that was a long time back. I had spoken to him many times about it, the last one as recent as during the World Cup in April.
"The success of the contest showed that the 50-over format was in sound health and there was no need for dramatic changes," Lorgat added.
"The decision-making board meeting after the World Cup decided that the present format was doing well. That has not changed," Lorgat stressed.
Tendulkar had argue that four innings of 25 overs would be a fair way to balance the advantage gained by the team which won the toss in circumstances such as bad weather and sub-quality pitches, which historically had established that a match can virtually be determined by the toss of a coin.
Dravid also backed the Board for deciding to put pressure on the ICC for revising the contentious Umpire Decision Review System, of which he got the rough end of the stick in the Test and ODI rubbers in England.
"It's not set in stone. Anything linked with DRS is a work in progress. There are new challenges and questions about it. It's up to the member Boards (of the ICC) to ask whether things are better with it in place," said the 39-year-old Dravid.
Dravid, who was the lone batsman to show constantly superb form in hard conditions next to a top-class England pace attack in the four-match Test rubber that India lost 0-4, was also controversially given out throughout the 'Hot Spot' image system on at least three occasions, leading to big debates over DRS.
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