Twenty20 can't do duels
In an impassioned piece for the Sunday Telegraph , Scyld Berry promotes the virtues of Test cricket and all its intricacies over the brief but glitzy Twenty20.
It is above all in duels within the team game - Warne v Flintoff, or McCullum v Panesar, ad infinitum - that a player's character is revealed, and Twenty20 has no time for duels: after a couple of bad overs, a batsman or bowler is out. Test cricket shapes and displays a player's essential self; in Twenty20, which is all action and no drama, he is little more than a robot. He has therefore to play in the former to be marketable in the latter. Sir Viv, one of the Stanford courtiers at Lord's, would never have done what he did for the identity of Afro-Caribbean people if he had played only Twenty20.
Will Luke is assistant editor of ESPNcricinfo