The International Cricket Council CEO Haroon Lorgat revealed on Wednesday at Colombo, that Sachin Tendulkar's ideas on One-Day Internationals had been discussed as early as in May this year, but the world body had decided that there was no need for dramatic changes to the format. Lorgat said I was engaged with Sachin a long time back on his thinking on the 50-over format, at the launch of the ICC’s Twenty20 World Cup which will be hosted by Sri Lanka next year.

ICC General Manager Dave Richardson said I can confirm to you that the ideas were thoroughly discussed by the cricket committee headed by Clive Lloyd in May, but we decided not to go with them. He added lots of people have come up with different ideas to revamp the ODI format. So, he’s surely not the only one. The suggested ideas won’t be worked out anytime in the future as they have been already dealt with.

Earlier Tendulkar had written to the ICC suggesting four alternating innings of 25 overs for each side in ODIs. In his view, the fairest way of balancing the advantages gained by the team that wins the toss, when the pitch and weather conditions mean that a match can virtually be decided by the spin of a coin. He also mentions several such games in the longest of all present international careers, going back to his first appearances as a 16-year-old in Pakistan in 1989. Chief among them is the notorious 1996 World Cup semi-final in Calcutta when India was caught on what he calls a square turner in the second innings.

On other issues, Lorgat said India was entitled to its opinion on the UDRS. He said the decision was made in Hong Kong on the use of DRS. In my view we have to use the full system. On ICC toughening its stance on pitches for Test cricket, Lorgat said a pitch that did not produce a fair balance between bat and ball could be rated poor.