The shift to a four-day game, driven purely by the lure of reducing expenditure, would end Test cricket in its current form. Test cricket tells us about life, that there are periods of death and slackness and frustration. There is no argument for creating a four-day Test that isn’t to do with saving money. A four-day Test would save on broadcast logistics, staff hires and fixed costs of every kind. Five days of Test cricket: this is an improbable kind of beauty, something that wouldn’t get past the first pitch meeting now.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2020 19:59 UTC