'Must make Test cricket a good product to watch'
Andrew Strauss, writing in the Daily Telegraph , says cricket lovers have to embrace other forms of the game and use them to introduce newcomers to Test cricket, while administrators need to look at the bigger picture and not just instant
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Andrew Strauss, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says cricket lovers have to embrace other forms of the game and use them to introduce newcomers to Test cricket, while administrators need to look at the bigger picture and not just instant financial gratification.
There should not be an unhealthy competition between the formats. The challenge for administrators is to get that balance so that all can coexist together. The difficulty is that commercially, shorter forms of the game make more sense than Test cricket so it is a challenge for administrators to look at the bigger picture rather than just the bottom line ... Sometimes that means investing in something that is not the most profitable in the short term knowing that in the long term it might pay off.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo