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England all-rounder Moeen Ali believes 50-over cricket could soon be lost if the ‘unsustainable’ domestic and international calendar is not fixed.

“At the moment it’s not sustainable in my opinion. Something has to be done because I fear losing the 50-over format in a couple of years because it’s almost like the long, boring one if that makes sense", he said.

“It’s almost like you’ve got T20s, you’ve got the Test matches, which are great and then the 50 overs is just in the middle – there’s no importance given to at the moment", he added.

Ali predicted that world cricket will witness a lot more retirements and agreed to 'too much going on' at the moment.

“It just feels like it’s going that way and there’s nothing almost you can do because I think the interest in 50-over cricket is not there as it probably once was."

“So yeah, having won it in 2019 it’s a difficult one because I genuinely feel in two to three years time, nobody’s going to want to play it," he added.

Ali is currently leading Birmingham Phoenix in the Hundred and said that there’s not much interest in such tournaments as well.