Former India opener Gautam Gambhir and Australian pace great Brett Lee are not in favour of splitting T20 matches into four innings.

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Cricket has witnessed plenty of innovation since its inception and recently there have been talks about splitting the shortest format of the game into four innings.

"I'm not a big believer that we should split T20 cricket into two innings. I think, Sachin Tendulkar somewhere gave a suggestion that we could try doing it with 50 overs which makes a lot of sense, because you've got 25 overs (each)," Gambhir said on Star Sports’ show Cricket Connected.

Lee, who represented Australia in 76 Tests, 221 ODIs and 25 T20Is, agreed with Gambhir and added that he doesn’t support any change which hurts the sanctity of the game.

"I am all for T20 cricket whether it's the Indian Premier League or the Big Bash to have some flair about it, some excitement to bring people to the game," Lee opined.

"But there are some things you want to keep traditional when it comes to cricket and I think having four innings is a bit too much. I still think it's always nice to see a target, and try and chase that target down or defend it," he added.

Speaking about splitting the ODIs into four innings, Gambhir stated: "It also probably takes the toss away as well because in some conditions the toss plays a huge role and I was absolutely in favour of that as well. But not in T20 cricket, it's too short a format and there's hardly any time. Splitting that into 10 overs each will be too short an inning."