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Test cricket is getting more painful to watch ever year, especially when you have an excitement game like Twenty20 sitting in the wings waiting for its big chance. The reality is Tests will always be here, but do we have to have so many matches?
After the Indian Test series we will have watched six boring, gruelling, mind-numbing matches throughout the summer, and with the series already decided, why do we have to play the final match just for the Indians to get some pride back?
I think if you were to ask them they would sooner get on with the one day games. It’s almost February and the fourth Test has only just started.
By the time the one-dayers come around, people are sick of cricket, everyone is gearing up for the footy season, and yet with the one-day Tri-Series coming back, God knows how many games we are going to have in the next two months.
I still think the future of cricket is Twenty20. If Kerry Packer were alive and running Channel Nine, he would have leapt at the chance of having some kind of T20 series throughout the summer, because of the potential earnings that could be made.
Australian cricket hasn’t fully embraced Twenty20. We have the Big Bash League, but if you talk to the fans, they will tell you that they want guys like Shane Watson, Micheal Clarke, and Dave Warner playing in the league. In the current age we just don’t have the time to sit down and watch a guy block a ball for eight hours. I want to watch the jacked up version of cricket, where you don’t have time to leave a ball – it’s hit the damn thing or get out.
It’s time to get rid of Test cricket. I know it will never happen, but it’s time for it to go. It’s hogging up the whole summer. Replace it with a massive T20 series with about five international teams. Have Australia and even Australia A, and have an invitational team like Warnie’s Angels or Gilly’s Chosen Ones, so there will be about eight teams.
Have non-stop action like the IPL, playing games almost every night, and have the best players around the world playing each other. This is much a better product to sell around the world then a painstaking one-sided four-Test series in which only two teams play.
Back in the day this may have suited everyone, but the world is evolving, and Cricket Australia need to get with the times.
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