most of the excricketer r thinking about the future of test cricket because their cricket history are defending around test cricket.they feel jealous the popularity of t20 and oneday cricket.they dont try to understand the peoples and viewers demand..they dislike the oneday and t20 creicket.threre is lot of crowd in oneday and t20 but test without viewers as well as no result come out within 5 days in test.its unfavourablre true that there r three format in one game.i think test cricket should cut out from cricket if we want popularity with foot ball.i know nobody agree with me but it is true that test game is the way of dustbin .famous excricketer r trying to catching the test format like superglue.test cricket damage mean their cricket carier history is damage.

I don't know if anyone will agree or not but I will say it anyways. Scrap ODI World Cup completely. Bring back CT. It should be played upon rating. Top 8 should play CT. It should be held after every 4 years (like the World Cup). There should be a cut off date. Top 8 teams on the date will go on to play CT. There should be tri or four nation series once in a while but no bilateral series for ODIs. When there is a bilateral series of test matches, three T20Is can be included for the series. Then there is World Cup T20. There should be 16-20 teams but each and every team has to qualify irrespective of the rankings. This will give us unexpected teams in the tournament. Imagine Afghanistan qualifying yet Australia failing.

T20 cricket will eventually kill Test cricket and damage T50 ODI. Because of nature of T20 players will opt to play it even for few seasons just to make enough money and they will leave it or T20 will leave them for younger players with better eyesight, fitness and co-ordination. Good cricketing skills in batting and bowling will be lost .Just look at the T20 champions West Indies and the effect. They cannot field a proper Test side or ODI side. Ironic that WI cannot produce a good fast bowler and are playing 3 spinners and 3 wicketkeepers in a match at same time. Players will ensure they are fit for IPL and will say to hell with other cricket.If they can add big bash, or any other T20 tournament then that will be bonus. What wil end up is the same group of players going from country to country like circus. Sad for game of cricket .IPL has killed "cricket" and made a new game resembling baseball.

T20 has caused young players to lose vital skills of batting. It doesn't take any skill to swing the bat hard and hoping it goes for a boundary. The T20 franchise might as well hire MLB players to hit the ball hard. How often do test squads score over 450 or 500 runs. Before T20 existed, big test runs were more common to see, but now it rarely even seen. I do agree that it easier to watch compared to test, but great batsmen don't come from playing in a childish way. What cricket players playing for? Money? Fame? Representing their country? International cricketers should avoid playing in T20, so they can develop skills that would make them a great batsmen.

I don't think that T20's has affected the overall cricket. This year without a doubt has pulled off some brilliant, nail-biting T20's. My uncle wasn't a fan of cricket but after watching some thrilling T20 matches, he wakes up at 4AM to watch The Ashes. So the T20's has had it's given perks as well! When it comes to the technique of players that have been damaged, than I'd strongly disagree to that. A good batsmen can always adapt to the game. Take Ab De Velliers and Kohli, they both have been terrific in all of the formats, they know how, when and where to score.

So I'd support the idea of playing T20's, maybe two of them when you began or end the tour, it's always refreshing to enjoy the big hitting games once in a while with a couple of beers!

T-20 should be limited to the countries and one in every international tournament and the world t-20. I.P.L. is the worst thing for cricket, especially hosted by India.

I'd much prefer to see T20s as a club-only format, but that's pretty unlikely to happen. More of a concern for me is that with the incredible glut of T20 games, the priority they take, and the imbalance between bat and ball means that even if you were to win a bajillion fans to cricket with T20, most of them simply won't understand the rules, language, or subtlety of Test cricket, nor be able to deal with the pace of a game that lasts for 5 days (and may not have a clear winner).Cricket's gained ground on other sports in terms of viewership (and has potential to crack the USA via a large ex-pat south Asian population), but they're T20 fans, not Test fans, and you're still stuck with the same issue: declining interest in Tests from fans, players, and administrators.

T20s is a good way to advertise cricket as a whole. However it also makes cricket look like just a bat game which is pretty much baseball then. There is no reason why t20s can't be played on slow/spinning wickets or bouncy/fast that tests are played on as its still much more nailbiting

T20s is a good form of entertainment but when Boards prefer T20s to ODis[which is basically just a longer form of T20 now] or Tests, it isn't good. T20s should always be kept to 2 and there should always be 3 test series'. There should be a league where the top 8 test teams play in too.

Every coin has two sides. T20 does bring about a lot of goods and bads. But it's upto ICC that the glory of Test cricket is not lost because of T20. There has to be a limit to which number of T20s being played. Making T20 allowable only for a 3 test series would be a good notch.

For the people who are saying that T20 Cricket fills stadiums while Tests don't, I would like to tell them that that doesn't really matter. Cricket is not about slogging, etc. For a fast bowler, he needs to be knowing how to swing the ball, which isn't too important in T20s. It doesn't matter what you people say, but in my eyes Test Cricket is the Best and no format can replace it. Till where T20s are concerned, don't ban them but they should only be played for fun and not taken seriously.

We must all learn to adopt to changes in our lives. We haved changed from child to adult so why cant we accept other changes? T20 form of Cricket is a more entertaining form of cricket. The short form. We have a result in just a few hours and fan goes home entertained. Test Cricket will always be the Marque form of the Game with out doubt, but its long and dreary format has new fans very critical and non-supportive of it. They want action, and T20 provides such. With all due respect to Test Cricket which has been around for over a century, the fans would rather watch an ODI or T20 International. That the way it is. ''Change''

OK lets say T20 takes over, it will be to the detriment of Indian cricket all they have is spin, batsman today on those flat Indian wickets they would hit them out of two grounds, or will they turn sideways you know just to help India.

T20 has allowed new players and spectators to breath in the same space. It provides for an alternative entertainment channel and a source of income for large cross-section of young aspirants. Pros of T20 - fielding standards have improved, exposure to international standards, support economic growth of venues, provide employment, indirect benefit to Test matches. Cons of T20 - hampers approach towards the game, shunts technical growth of players, instant fame & money, club, money v/s country, honor thought-war. Maintaining a balance of all forms of cricket is necessary as market forces may change its texture anytime. While doses of T20 format can be dished out based upon TRP, Test cricket cannot rely on such frivolous figures.

'Look at how filled the stadiums are for tests and for T20 matches' is the cry. Well that may be true in India, but how about comparing test matches in England with the FLT20 crowds; not really a contest. Fair enough, FLT20 isn't a franchise league with all the distractions and gimmicks, so how about comparing the Big Bash with the recent Ashes crowds? Given that the boxing day test just set a record for capacitance, there is no contest there again. IPL might be the future in India, good luck to it, but what is often forgotten on this site is that India does not represent the whole of the cricketing world.

Restrict T20I only for ICC tournaments. A window (6-8 weeks) should be given for IPL style leagues. IPL should be reduced to three weeks. ODI series should be played atleast between three or four nations, no bilateral series. At least one of the teams in ODIs should be non-test playing nation for them to gain exposure. Test matches should be played as bilateral series. Series should have minimum of three test matches. Every test playing nation should play at least 10 test matches an year. In an ideal scenario, i would like to define the nature of the wickets also. One bowler friendly wicket (bounce or seam/swing or spin), one batsman friendly wicket (not too pacy, not too much assistance for spin), and one pitch equally assisting batsmen and bowlers. This would help avoiding whitewashes purely on the home advantage.

I do not know if T20 is the future, all I know is the kids at our cricket club want to play for Australia and New South Wales.

T20 cricket is the game of this century. It should not be stopped but planned well. But this does not mean that tests should stop just bcoz of time problem or bcoz of entertainment. Tradition is a must and therefore the ICC should encourage T20's along with tests. Both can co-exist together.

Nadeem Sharifuddin said "For how long in 21st century you are going to show us longest sports match in history of the world. we got to move on with 4 hour match with entertainment for every one."

I wonder when the Tour De France is going to wake and listen to your views.

Perhaps they should cut out the boring first 200km's of the days stage and go straight to the sprint. 100 plus riders all screaming to the finish line, fireworks going off all around, prizes for guessing how many casualties there will be and let's not forget the dancing girls on stages and in cages.

That would save 3 or 4 hours a day of the pesky, stamina, strength and tactics part of the sport.

accept it or not, ipl and other t20 tournaments have jam packed stadiums every game while for even the last test of greatest batsman of present era- sachin, even 30% of stadium did not fill up. so why will icc promote test cricket when even games between best 2 test sides - india and sa cud not fill up stadiums? t20 is the future of cricket,anybody who denies it must access the present scenarios,again.

T20 is a silly game liked by young kids and others not inclined to the pure form of the game. I can understand why they like it. Parents can take their kids out for a bit of fun -dancing girls, music, fireworks, prizes for catches etc.

As a purist, I have tried watching it. I simply don't like it. I never liked shortened 50 over games when bad weather intervened. I'd watch them, only because they were usually just a once off, not the norm.

why to run away from real fact of life that in this hectic life no body has time to watch any format of match for 5 days or 10 hours to wait for the result and some time in test cricket you get drawn results.

T2020 match if every thing goes well gives you result just in 4 hours and matches are played during evening which don't disturb the working hours.

Look at the stadiums and audience in T2020 match and compare it to Test match excluding MCG test match which is exceptional and i can easily advise ICC to go for demands of the people and promote T2020 cricket because it's more entertaining and fun to watch than test match which is boring stuff.

For how long in 21st century you are going to show us longest sports match in history of the world. we got to move on with 4 hour match with entertainment for every one.

whether few so called experts accept it or not, t20 is a future of cricket. It will not ruin technique, only players who failed to adopt are complaining about t20. Look at AB de vill, he is classic example but cook is not.

Limited overs cricket does not give the fall of a wicket any significance to the outcome of the match unless Duckworth Lewis method is used. In test cricket you need to bowl a side out to have a chance of winning the match.

One final version of limited overs cricket: Use runs and wickets in the first innings as a target for the second innings to get a result. At the end of the second innings if a team fails to take the number of wickets that fell in the first innings then the they cannot be declared the winner of the match. Forget power plays and fielding restrictions.

I think the ODI, Test and T20 are fine, but the rules of cricket are spoiling today's cricket. The game has to be a bat and ball contest, but it is sad today to watch fast bowlers trying to bowl slow balls...Tailanders are hitting sixes, the power plays are becoming boring. The original format which was in late 80's and early 90s should be back. Cricket used to be fun, now it has become more monotonous.

I think the game has become faster as compared to past cricket. Now we are getting the results for test matches also without affecting the game scenario. World records like highest scores in ODI and fastest 100 in ODI which have been set by Saeed anwar and Shahid afridi lived for a long time but I think Rohit's and Anderson will not remain for along time. These are the things which viewers like too much. So I think T20 game should be continue with ODI and test game. In future we are looking for more exiting games in all cricket formats.

Im very happy with cricket being played nowadays. we are getting more results in tests now. hope they dont try to concentrate on t20 more than they do now. Good players will adapt

I actually find T20 cricket doesn't get in the way. With cricinfo etc., it's now possible to follow all the Test action around the world, which is enough. I think Test players can dabble in T20 and in some cases the variety may freshen up their outlook. I think very few of them are so thick that they confuse Test and T20 attitudes, which is a kind of commentator's cliche for any poor shot selection.

If T20 takes up a few weeks in India midyear, I don't really notice it. In Australia, it's clearly jumped the shark. So, T20 is not even a distraction. Just a peripheral thing for bookmakers.