Last summer's domestic one-day cup featured several innovations, designed to revive interest in the limited overs format, including having a team's 45 overs broken up into innings of 20 and 25 overs.
But after the 2011 World Cup proved a hit with fans, Cricket Australia's playing conditions committee (PCC) said the International Cricket Council (ICC) would be reluctant to alter the current 50-over international format before the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Therefore, the committee - which provided its recommendations on the domestic one-day competition innovations to Cricket Australia on Wednesday - said the split innings idea should be dropped for next summer's tournament.
Committee chairman Jack Clarke did however suggest other innovations such as using a different ball from either end and reducing restrictions on the number of overs a bowler can deliver should continue.
In a release from the ICC, following its cricket committee's two-day meeting at Lord's in London last month, the two-ball idea should be brought into international one-day cricket, while other measures from the domestic one-day cup should be trialled at international level.
"Overall, the public response to innovations, which were trialled to test ways of refreshing the 50-over format, was good and the public said it liked the split innings," Clarke said.
"A number of the ideas we tried, such as using two balls, one from each end, reducing restrictions on the number of overs bowlers can deliver or increasing the number of bouncers allowed, are being either supported or tested further by the International Cricket Council for possible global use.
"CA intends to continue trialling these playing conditions in the 2011-12 (domestic one-day cup)."
"But on split innings, the PCC today noted its public popularity, but decided to ask the full CA board to note that the 50-over format will continue to be used for the next ICC Cricket World Cup and to therefore consider having the Ryobi Cup revert to a 50-over format next summer."
-AAP
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