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This. T20 cricket is super entertaining.

I can't watch test matches or even ODI, but T20 is super fun. The limited overs encourage action in a way the other formats don't. Batters are aggressive, death bowling is a thing, way better than baseball IMO.

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Test cricket is also technically limited overs, but it has immensely more strategic aspect to it spanning 5 days with 2 innings each.

Innings are limited by both time and number (2 maximum each, but could technically be zero for one side), but I'm pretty sure overs are limited only by time.

In one day, on statistcal average, ~90 overs are bowled. The day can be safely divided into 3 sessions equally. If spinners are bowling in majority, this number could extend to 100 overs per day as well.

On a strategic aspect, the players have to change their styles from slow to fast or fast to slow given these hidden limits.

It's essentially not limited overs because of how long each innings is though. The threat of losing all your wickets is too high resulting in extremely defensive batting and extremely boring matches.

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