Australian dominance is killing Test cricket
For the second season running, a prospective challenger to Australia's hegemony has been sent packing
Andrew Miller
25-Feb-2013
For the second season running, a prospective challenger to Australia's hegemony has been sent packing. Last November it was England and now it's Sri Lanka who have been routed in the first Test at The Gabba. But far from cheering this turn of events, even the uber-Aussie Malcolm Conn of the Australian fears for the lack of competitiveness on show.
The sadness of Australia continuing to raise the bar in Test cricket means the foundation of the game is becoming less and less relevant in more countries as the Twenty20 phenomenon multiplies the excitement in shorter forms of the game.
This is even so in Australia, which has the strongest tradition of Test cricket with England. If Australia was playing a one-day or Twenty20 match at the Gabba it would have sold out long ago.
Andrew Miller is the former UK editor of ESPNcricinfo and now editor of The Cricketer magazine