Test cricket should be played among equals
Test cricket needs to re-invent itself by creating more meaningful contests, writes Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
Test cricket needs to re-invent itself by creating more meaningful contests, writes Mukul Kesavan in the Telegraph. The top five Test-playing nations should play only among themselves, and only at centres that have a Test culture, like Bangalore, he says.
Test cricket is being killed off by meaningless Test matches played between mismatched teams or third-rate ones. It is suffering because of the International Cricket Council's idiotic missionary impulse, the mad idea that Test cricket's health depends on it becoming a more global sport. Nothing could be further from the truth: history teaches us that Test cricket is essentially a bilateral game: it prospered even when it was played by just two countries, England and Australia.