ICC CEO Dave Richardson doesn’t trust Test cricket has lost its sheen yet said the five-day group needs a lit piece of lift to keep the premium alive among fans.
Richardson’s announcement came with regards to ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar’s ongoing explanation that Test cricket is gradually “passing on”.
“What he (Manohar) was significance to state is Test cricket was getting out for more setting,” Richardson was cited as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
“Truly, there are some notorious challenges that happen every now and then, however, except if you are a piece of or a fanatic of the partaking groups that specific arrangement had no genuine enthusiasm (to fans all around).
“Furthermore, with the presentation of the World Test Championship, that adds intrigue and advances the Test diversion worldwide regardless of who is playing. That is the thing that he was stating: Test cricket required only that additional lift, it should have been advanced and the World Test Championship ideally is the response to that,” he included.
ICC Chairman Manohar had as of late said that “We are attempting to see whether Test title can produce intrigue. Since Test cricket is really biting the dust to be straightforward.”
Richardson, be that as it may, said there are numerous nations where the arrangement is intently pursued and given numbers to demonstrate his case.
“In numerous nations Test cricket is still exceptionally intently pursued. We have in excess of a billion fans that pursue cricket – 68 percent of them are devotees of every one of the three configurations of the diversion, which implies that near 700 million individuals are fanatics of Test cricket.
“So it isn’t right to say that Test cricket is passing on. It is more enthusiastically for individuals to go to five days of a Test coordinate, go through consistently staying there for six hours.
“Possibly how individuals are following Test cricket is distinctive to what it was state 10, 20 years prior. Be that as it may, I don’t assume it is biting the dust. The (World) Test Championship, however, will give more setting and more intrigue and simply be an additional cap peg that we can hang our caps on.”