"This new game has brought a different spectator. Not necessarily the right ones I think; the ones that just want to go to the game and don't even know what happens. But at the end of the day, spectators and television is what make sport and I'm very happy and very welcoming of the Twenty20 game," he was quoted as saying by the Jamaica Observer.

Lara, who has scored 400 runs in an innings and played two seasons for the rebel Indian Cricket League, urged the batsmen to develop attractive shots suited to Twenty20 instead of trying to whack every ball out of the ground.

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"I hope that we do see a little bit of artistry because right now it's a lot of 'wam-bam thank you mam'.

"I believe that at some point in time people are going to understand that there are tactical ways of playing it and then you are going to see the true talent come out," he said.