Test cricket

'Test cricket is harder than it looks'

Australia’s Test opener Ed Cowan tells Subash Jayaraman, in a podcast for The Cricket Couch , that Test cricket has become even more difficult for a batsman as pitches today are more bowler friendly.

25-Feb-2013•Carlyle Laurie

What is this primacy of Test cricket?

Time to be honest about the place Test cricket occupies in today's scenario, says Dileep Premachandran, in Wisden India .

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

A triangular Test experiment that failed

Stephen Brenkley, in the Independent on Sunday , looks back at the triangular Test series involving England, Australia and South Africa in 1912, its failure and what it means for Test cricket today.

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Why a Test Championship is flawed

From Paul Leary, United Kingdom

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

An American take on Test cricket

ESPN 's Wright Thompson, an American journalist, on his experience of watching and reporting on a Test match at Lord's.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Test matches are still vital and thrilling

Simon Hughes argues in the Daily Telegraph that the ICC missed a huge opportunity to bolster the status of Test cricket by bowing to pressure from broadcasters and scrapping the Test Championship set for 2013.

25-Feb-2013•Alex Winter

Test cricket needs reinvention

Peter Roebuck points out some lessons to be learned from the poor crowds at the Pallekele Test in the Natal Witness

25-Feb-2013•Dustin Silgardo

Defending Test cricket

From Tareque Laskar, India

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

A suitably silly trophy

Emma John has an amusing article in the Guardian about the mace presented to the top Test team in the world

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

A blind love for the game

Why would a blind person love cricket

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

Waiting for Dravid

In this age of instant gratification, waiting for anything has become a strange, outdated notion for most of us

25-Feb-2013•Tariq Engineer

Test cricket or Talksport?

Martin Kelner, in the Guardian , wonders what will be the more attractive draw this summer - an epic battle featuring some of Test cricket's greatest names, or another Cesc Fábregas phone-in?

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Talya

Boycott, Vaughan and Steve Waugh on their top Tests

BBC 's Jonathan Agnew asks former England captains Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Vaughan, and former Australia captain Steve Waugh to nominate their greatest Test match of all time

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'Learning curve was incomplete without an England tour'

Former cricketer Nari Contractor, who led India to a historic series victory against the English in the '60s, talks to DNA's Gautam Sheth on his experiences of playing in England.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

'Must make Test cricket a good product to watch'

Andrew Strauss, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says cricket lovers have to embrace other forms of the game and use them to introduce newcomers to Test cricket, while administrators need to look at the bigger picture and not just instant

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Why Darren Sammy is the greatest bowler of all time

Also: the alternate meaning of the Providence Test, and whether it is a bonafide new dawn for West Indies

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

How about an all Associates Test team?

From Philip and Alan Sutherland, Australia

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Barnes and Muralitharan at par

This is a follow-up to the article on the best aggregate of runs scored by batsmen in 1 to 10 Tests

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Outstanding third innings bowling performances: 15 gems

A look at fifteen of the finest third innings bowling performances in Tests

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Mirror, mirror, who'll win the Ashes?

A reflective conversation between Andy Zaltzman and his inverted image where they prove, among other things, how AB de Villiers prevented the break-out of World War III

25-Feb-2013•Andy Zaltzman

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