The 11-point American scoring format now common in professional squash has unquestionably made the sport far more appealing, particularly to spectators coming to the game for the first time.
Every point really does count and getting off to a slow start can make it extremely hard for a player to get back into a match.
In the light of this, is it not time for squash to go a step further and introduce its equivalent of Twenty/Twenty cricket?
How about a gathering of the world’s best players for one day only at an eye catching venue like London’s St Pancras station with single games up to 11 points?
International Sport Group CEO and joint promoter of the ATCO Super Series Finals, Paul Walters, experimented with a format of this kind a few years ago and believes with the right backing it could be another terrific innovation for the sport.
It would be an intriguing prospect to see who would be squash’s Kevin Pietersen!