Cricket has been the passion of many of the cricket lovers all over the world, especially in the sub continent nations and also in the other parts of the erstwhile British empire. There has been a lot of changes that have occurred in the cricket over the last few years. Test match cricket was the initial format that was used. This was played over a period of 5 days and tested the true character and the strength of the cricketers. Over a period of many years, the number of people who were interested in test cricket started decreasing. This was because of the fact that it took 5 days for the match to end.

As test cricket was seen to be increasingly boring, there was a dip in the number of people who were interested in cricket. This was the time when there was a rebirth of cricket in the form of one day matches. This was played between two teams and they had to play 50 overs each. As there were more and more changes happening in cricket, the test cricket again started having less viewers.

As life became fast paced for the people, cricket too became fast paced with the latest form of cricket being started. This is the 20-20 cricket matches that are being played these days. In these games, the whole game ends in about 3 to 4 hours and each team is allotted 20 overs to play the game.

This has been the changing face of cricket. Now, there are various tournaments that are played in the 20-20 format and the maximum number of television viewership and the maximum number of spectators in the grounds are for the very short form of the game. Though the one day matches too have a lot of people watching the game, the test matches have very few viewers when compared to the previous two forms of the game. It remains to be seen if there are any more changes to the game of cricket in future. There may even be a further shortening of the game.