'Balance just about right'

In an interview to David Sygall in the Sun-Herald, James Sutherland, Cricket Australia's chief executive, says cricket is booming at the grassroots in the country. He feels the ICC has got the balance right between Tests, ODIs and Twenty20s.

The CA board certainly argues that Test cricket should always be treated as the premium, prestige format and Test cricket is more popular in Australia now than it was a decade ago. However, it is not as popular in all other countries as it is here. Our view, which is reflected in the ICC approach, is that the long-term development of cricket should have Test and ODI predominating in the international cricket calendar, with Twenty20 cricket complementing that as a mainly state or equivalent level format with an appropriate but not disproportionate amount of international Twenty20 cricket. IPL is, for example, a state level competition in India and we play three Twenty20 internationals in our Australian summer, which I think is about right