Tests still have power to thrill
There is no question that Test cricket has some important housekeeping to do
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
There is no question that Test cricket has some important housekeeping to do. Yet, in this week of all weeks, there is surely no case for redesign. The old house, after all, has rarely looked in better nick, writes James Lawton in the Independent.
Test cricket, as we have seen in the last summer of the Ashes, and in the match that is still unfolding in Cape Town and the one won so dramatically by Australia against Pakistan, does not need a new shape or new rules. It just needs the faith that is required to give it the space and the time to prove what some have known all along ... Really, what kind of rival plot line could a Twenty20 collision ever seriously present to the kind of drama still unfolding at the exquisite Newlands ground?
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo