In a recent interview, Atherton said, “One-day cricket is on the brink of an abyss.” The beginning of the end of one-day cricket has come since the beginning of IPL. South Africa said it will not play the one-day series against Australia next year. They have taken this decision so that the cricketers can go to play IPL at that time. Everything is clear from this.

The ICC has said that there will be no competition during the IPL next year so that players from all countries are available. According to Atherton, it is clear from this decision of the ICC who dominates more. He said, “ICC is giving more importance to IPL than bilateral series. As a result, the number of one-day cricket audiences is decreasing.

Ben Stokes retired from one-day cricket a few days ago. Despite playing Tests and T20s, he is reluctant to play one-day cricket. Atherton highlighted the dominance of franchise cricket behind the retirement of the cricketer who won England the ODI World Cup.
Now the cricketers do not like to watch one-day cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin has said that he has lost interest in watching one-day cricket. Ashwin said, “One-day cricket doesn’t have that beauty, it doesn’t have that excitement. The batters took their time coming to the crease earlier and wanted to take the match to a more exciting place. After that, the ball would start reverse swinging. At one time the batting team needed 60 runs from 60 balls and despite having seven wickets in hand; the bowling team was put ahead. That thing is no more. Now that run will go up in the blink of an eye.”

Along with IPL, cricket leagues have started in different countries around the world. T20 cricket is played there. West Indies cricketers like to play in various T20 leagues throughout the year. Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, and Chris Gayle did not want to play for the country at one time to play the T20 league in different countries. This craze of T20 cricket is gradually pushing one-day cricket back? Atherton asks.