SYDNEY: Australian cricketer Shane Watson has praised Pakistan Super League (PSL) that quality of cricket is the league’s number one priority.
During an interview with a cricket website, Shane Watson praised the PSL and Indian Premier League (IPL) saying that their focus is on the quality of cricket.
“The one thing that the IPL and PSL do is make the quality of the cricket, the product, the number one priority. This is where the BBL has really lost its way. The quality of the cricket has been put on the back burner in the Big Bash and the entertainment gimmicks have been brought to the forefront,” he said.
The cricketer criticized the expansion of the Big Bash season from 32 group games to 56, describing the tournament as “just too long” and suggesting that “the quality of the cricket has been put on the back burner”.
Watson is one of Australia’s most experienced T20 players has proposed a comprehensive plan to save Big Bash League (BBL). Discussions about the Big Bash’s format have been a near-constant feature of the Australian summer in recent years.
The tournament’s group stage lasted 32 games in 2016-17 when the average attendance was over 30,000, but while aggregate attendance has grown steadily, the average has decreased markedly to around 18,000 in 2019-20.
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