Most of the boards doesn't care about test cricket. It is the ICC which forces them to play in this format. This is why I want to cut down the number of test matches. Only the pig-4 can afford to have separate teams for test and limited overs format. Smaller boards doesn't have this luxury and scheduling test matches can be financially draining for them. 3-4 matches per year sounds good for teams like South Africa. Anything more is like an unnecessary burden. Actually I am glad that South Africa sent an amateur squad. At least now the ICC will notice.
Agreed. The only way for test cricket to continue surviving is by cutting down such matches drastically and limit them mostly for top teams like England, India etc which is the best strategy overall.
They should do the same to ODI cricket too since T20 and T10 formats keep rising in popularity with time.
We already talk about this too many times which is completely useless because dumb a** ICC not care about this all with now it's time for having good changes at the top and bring new lifeline which is important for this game because recently we have too much decline in quality and things are going from bad to worse if ICC not going to have positive changes which are essential for the survival of the game and test format they needed to have 2 tiers with top six and then lower six every WTC settled for the top eight teams and also work on bilateral series as well for the tier 2 because this will increase of quality and give them good experience.
I am now in favour of two formats with we need 2031 world cup could be last for the ODI and then having T20i and test are enough for the fans and players as well which will also bring good change in game for the players.