As cricket boards are taking it to their sleeves to revive test cricket. Several ideas have popped out of the hat when it from the great cricket minds.
Ideas such as the pink ball test which was a super-hit in India could be the way going forward. But there several other pundits who have given the idea of a four-day test.
It might also be taken into notice that South Africa and Zimbabwe played a four-day way back in 2017. But the former Indian Opener Gautam Gambhir and Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar have discarded the idea of a four day test match.
The ICC”s proposal of a four day test has not at all gone well with the Indian cricketers especially the Indian Captain Virat Kohli as they felt taking away the fifth day from spinners would be just like not allowing the pacers to bowl on the first day of a Test.
“Spinners look forward to bowling with the scuffed ball, taking advantage on day five of the roughs created on the wicket. All that is a part of Test cricket. Is it fair to take that advantage away from the spinners,” Sachin said while speaking to Mumbai Mirror.
Sachin also was of the thought that scrapping off one day of a test match wouldn”t help the game but would look ugly instead he opined that ICC and home associations to make the pitches better for the test to continue until five days.
“The ICC, in my view, should focus on providing quality playing surfaces. Let the ball do things – spin, seam, swing and bounce. It will automatically liven-up the game. It will also throw up more results. Currently, there are far too many dead games,” Sachin opined.
Gambhir was ridiculed with the idea of the idea of a four day test match and the Indian Captain Virat Kohli said it would be unfair to the purest format of the game.
