If Test cricket is boring then I'm a Texan billionaire

One may glorify Twenty20 as the best version of reality television, but it'll never hit the heights of the climax of an Ashes series, writes David Mitchell in the Guardian. However, he says it is monumentally unfair that players are expected to show restraint, and prioritise Test cricket, when future financial security is being offered them on a plate, like Allen Stanford's investment of US$100 million in a series of Twenty20 matches over the next five years in Antigua.

Missing the Antigua game due to injury or making themselves unavailable for the IPL because of the start of the English season have huge long-term financial consequences for these men and, if they follow the money, I for one wouldn't blame them. Test cricket organisers need to be big enough to defend themselves, rather than relying on men in their 20s, with few prospects of employment beyond 35, to do the job for them.