Test cricket can never be upstaged

With the arrival of Twenty20 and several obits being written on the 50-over game, Harsha Bhogle feels that Test cricket will remain in robust health. The stands may not be full but people know the scores, great performances are lauded, victories are celebrated and statistics greedily devoured.

To my mind, the reason Test cricket will never die is because it gives people the opportunity of fighting back. A mistake is not the end of the world, players stand firm against the tide and sometimes turn it back with old-fashioned grit. Test cricket is not retro, it is still contemporary and even modern cricketers look forward to playing it.

In the same piece in the Indian Express, he suggests that 50-overs cricket can follow the rules of Tests by splitting the innings into two overs of 25 overs each to add more spark to a dying format.