Hope springs for Tests in India

Scyld Berry, writing in the Daily Telegraph, writes that there's much hope for the future of Test cricket in India given there's little sign of Twenty20 life in the maidans of Mumbai.

No Twenty20 cricket, from what I have seen in the last week here. The obsession with 20-over cricket and the IPL is not manifest on Mumbai's maidans, not at this time of year at any rate.

Even if India's Test players are suffering from an over-dose of T20, and have forgotten the game's eternal verities like playing straight for a long time, they have successors in the home of playing cricket who will remember.