Test cricket is “biting the dust”, the administrator of the game’s administering body cautioned Thursday, including the new big showdown could help spare the longest arrangement of the diversion.
While Tests in Australia England still draw sizeable groups, filling arenas and boosting enthusiasm for the five-day diversion has been a test in whatever is left of the cricket world for quite a long time.
“We are endeavoring to see whether (the) Test title can create intrigue, since Test cricket is really biting the dust to be straightforward,” International Cricket Council director Shashank Manohar told journalists in Dhaka.
“So to enhance the circumstance, we are attempting available resources. The (ICC) board… arrived at a resolution that on the off chance that we begin a Test title, it would keep Test cricket alive and create more enthusiasm for the diversion.”
The Ashes arrangement between chief adversaries England and Australia will commence the World Test Championship in July, and the two finish sides will go head to head in a last in 2021.
Manohar, who is in Dhaka to watch the last of the Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 competition, said the most brief rendition of the amusement presently gives greatest appraisals to supporters.
“These days, individuals don’t have five days… to watch a Test coordinate. From 10 to 5, everyone has their very own business to do as such it is troublesome for them to watch (Tests),” he said.
T20s are “over in 3.5 hours, such as viewing a film. In this way, it is getting quick”.
‘Olympic test’
Manohar, a previous leader of the Indian cricket board, said the game still faces difficulties in its offer to end up increasingly worldwide, including being added to the Olympics.
ICC authorities in the past have communicated their ability to present an application for cricket to be incorporated into the Paris 2024 Games.
In any case, there are calculated impediments, for example, reasonable settings for cricket, Manohar conceded, saying there is some best approach before it is included on world game’s greatest stage.
“There are sure nations which are as yet not persuaded whether to take an interest or not,” he included.
The main time cricket was played at the Olympics was in 1900, with only two groups – Britain and France.