Which is going to lose - A Grand survey

This is a continuation and extension from the previous post.

After reading and hearing from various experts,bloggers and assorted other non entities, i decided to do a grand survey about which form of cricket is going to lose. Tests/ODIs/T20s - who is going to be the biggest loser. So i conducted a grand survey consisting of me and huh only me. Sorry i dont have any1 in vicinity to ask their opinion. So far a moment i want to consider myself as the ultimate authority on cricket. Ok back to the survey.

As iam not in India, for the past 15 months i have been restricted to see cricket in pay TV or dodgy streams in internet. With respect to india, i have to pay a fortune to see cricket live in TV, so resticted myself to tournaments which im more interested in. Watching in Pay TV is heaven without ads and all, which deserves a post in itself.

My sojourn of pay TV started with IPL, then to WC T20s. Then i proceeded with the test series against Srilanka and SA and now IPL again. Out of all these, i didnt subscribe to any ODI/T20 series played by india, heck even i didnt watch ICC champions trophy. I missed many important moments in India's ODI history last year but i didnt feel much. Now im not sure whether i will subscribe WCT20s as it is happening in WI which will be live when i sleep.

So overall from the survey, i can come to a conclusion that ODI will be the first to move out of the family. Maybe if it was available free, who knows? But still i will not be so eager to watch, as ODI is available a dime a dozen. What about the WC? hmm.. i think i will watch.

ODI's make or break moment - 2011 WC

Everyone and its dog is speaking about the death of ODI in near future because of the rise in popularity of T20. But when we will be knowing it for sure??. 2011 WC will decide whether ODI is sustainable in future or not.
This is not because of the cricket we are going to see in the WC like 2007. There will be many boring games with sprinkling of nail bitters. But the future of ODI will be decided by IPL 2011. Why?.

India, the money machine which runs the world cricket will decide on whom they are going to spend their money on. Usually during the WC years, the marketers plan their budgets mostly around WC to get the maximum visibility. Now 2011 WC is scheduled during Feb19 to Apr 2 at the end of which the 2011 IPL will start. As everyone knows, IPL is a big money sucker which gets each and every dime from  the marketers. Now the companies need to decide on whom they are going to keep their bet the maximum. Which will be a sure shot direction from which we can understand the health of ODIs.

There is also a possibility for the marketers who got left out or not spending in IPL to make use of the WC. But there are very few big spenders apart from those who already tied up with IPL.

Now, the IPL 2011 is going to come after the WC, will this affect the sensibilities of the viewers who are already subjected to 50 days non stop cricket. Can the viewers take another 50 days of cricket without burn out or loss of interest.

We are in for interesting time.