The problem is cricket is a quaint old gentleman's sport to be played over 5 days with breaks for tea, lunch and more tea, and T20 is marketed to Gen Ys with an iPhone and the attention span of a cheese sandwich. They are totally different things; it shouldn't even be called cricket. The fact that right arm slow pie-throwers who can *maybe* slog 20-30 runs are king goes against everything cricket is about.
Other things cricket isn't about:
- fireworks
- dancing girls (and boys)
- Mark Nicholas
- exhilarating, pulse-pounding action.
Batting is supposed to be about concentration, and the test of wills and battle of nerves... not swing for the fence and see what happens. Bowling is supposed to be about working away at angles, finding that one that goes the other way, creating a plan to dig out a stubborn batsman... not taking the pace off the ball and hoping the batsman only hits it 82m to a fielder instead of 88m into the stands.
But I suspect I'm in the minority here...

Just having my old man rant on why T20 irritates me. It's was fun actually.