"The quality of cricket in the 1990s was much better than 2000s" - Sir IVA Richards, how much truth here?

He is right. But keeping that the Video ysis of Batsmen reveal their weakness very soon and also even the Fielding Placements are plotted in the Dressing room Between the Coach and Captain for each opposition player. If the physical battle are more in those days, mental battle emerges as a threat to distract batsmen. Captains pressure batsmen to play away from their Natural Games. Batsmen evolved a lot after those days. Invented New Shots and Create strategies to tackle bowlers and get advantage of Powerplays. Players like Sehwag, Dilshan, Gilly, Dhoni, Flintoff, Hayden are unstoppable even with any technologies. But we have to accept the truth that ODI has evolved to be more friendly to batsmen with 3Powerplays, Free Hit, One Bouncer Rule along with Flat Pitches. Just because to entertain Spectators. But it will bore the spectators too soon and its too close. IVA Richards had said the truth but one thing is Even now only the Best Batsmen can serve long as their break points are easily revealed once and again