Mark Waugh says 2015 Cricket World Cup holds key to future of one-day cricket Mark Waugh speaks with Fox Sports about his induction into the Australian cricket Hall of fame at tomorrow night's Allen Border Medal. Australia captain Michael Clarke with English counterpart Alastair Cook and the Cricket World Cup trophy. AUSTRALIAN Cricket Hall of Fame inductee Mark Waugh claims next year's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be pivotal to the future of the 50-over game. Waugh, who will officially receive the honour at Monday's Allan Border Medal in Sydney, says that captains must attack in one-day cricket to keep it relevant in the face of the Twenty20 explosion. T20 Cricket is here to stay, it's entertaining, it's short, there's a certain set of skills and the game's evolving. It's definitely going to be popular for a long time," Waugh said at the SCG on Sunday. Australia vice-captain George Bailey says he takes a sense of pride from the steady departure of English players from their Test and ODI tour ahead of the second ODI in Brisbane. With 50-over cricket, they've changed a few rules to tweak that middle period where it gets a bit boring and it's got to be up to the captains of teams not to set the field straight back during that middle period. You've got to entertain otherwise people will get sick of it and you don't want too much of it. The T20 World Cup I don't think has the same allure as a one-day World Cup. It (the 50-over World Cup) is a big event and you will see it next year in Australia and New Zealand and the Australians, the way they're playing, will revitalise one-day cricket. It went on a little bit of a downward spiral but if you didn't like what we saw in Brisbane the other night (when Australia chased down 300 against England with one wicket in hand) you're hard to please. I think this World Cup is going to be important with 50-over cricket to see where it sits in the three levels of cricket but if the captains play attacking cricket and it's played in the right spirit it should be good. While he laments being born too late for the Twenty20 era ("I would have made a lot more money for a start.") Waugh is a central part of what has become a juggernaut with Channel 10 as a commentator. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (R) with New Zealand counterpart John Key, and the Cricket World Cup trophy. Part of the original Big Bash coverage with Fox Sports, the domestic eight-team competition, in just its third season, has attracted enormous ratings, averaging almost a million viewers a match during its first summer on free to air television. As a product of Sydney's western suburbs Waugh has developed an affinity with the struggling Thunder as its "Governor" and claims that Cricket Australia must help the ailing franchise to ensure a more viable competition. "They've struggled to attract players for a number of reasons," Waugh said. For the sake of the competition you want eight good teams that are very competitive. The Thunder have won one of 20 so they obviously haven't been. I think Cricket Australia have got to help them out a bit there. I'm not sure how the salary cap works but there are a few teams which have a lot of international players and a couple of teams who look like they've got mainly club players. You want to see them strong because there are a lot of cricket followers out in the west (of Sydney). If the Thunder start to win some games they'll get big crowds.