The Cricket Writers panel debate the pros and cons of the ODI
Paul Newman believes 50-over cricket should be removed from the international calendar.
The Daily Mail journalist wrote a piece in his newspaper this week describing the one-day international as "a tired and formulaic style of the game whose days should be numbered".
Newman was in the Cricket Writers on TV studio on Sunday morning to carry on the debate and he thinks that if players do not shun the riches of the Indian Premier League then the 50-over format has to make way.
"The vast majority of people within the game feel there is too much cricket and with the rise of Twenty20 I feel something has to give," said Newman.
"I believe that what should give is the IPL but if the players want to play in it, which of course they are going to because it is worth so much money, then something else has to give and I think it should be 50-over cricket.
"We have had all this tinkering and now there are plans to do away with the batting power-play, while I think it's very sad that we are playing Australia from next week.
"It is a meaningless series when we should be playing four or five Tests against South Africa.
"They don't seem to have found a way to keep those middle overs interesting and in the modern world I think Test cricket and Twenty20 is the way forward."
Narrative
However, the Telegraph's Nick Hoult and Guardian writer Mike Selvey believe the ODI provides entertainment that a Twenty20 clash cannot and hope the 50-over format remains a fundamental part of the game.
"I disagree with Paul," said Hoult. "I love 50-over cricket and think it has a great future. It just needs protecting from meddling and the playing of too many matches; we don't want seven-match series, three or five are fine.
"In 50-over cricket you have the opportunity to see someone like Chris Gayle build an innings and bat for 30-35 overs. That's great entertainment."
Selvey added: "I think 50-over cricket has a narrative to it which you can't get in any other form of one day cricket. There is a chance to come back in a game, a chance to see hundreds, a chance to see five-fors; all those things that you don't very often get in T20.
"But what I would like to see is a more equal split between ODIs and T20s, one-off T20s seem to miss the point of it."