ICC consider to bring huge reform in International Test cricket

ICC consider being a drastic change in the international test cricket format, the world governing body of cricket looking to trim it.

With the intense and the rise of T20 cricket, test cricket has not been able to hold people’s attention except for the hardcore fans, who romanticize the traditional format.

Moreover, with the increasing number of matches in a calendar year, the players have to go through an intense workload. Thus, ICC has decided to bring changes into the test cricket format.

It has been reported that the world governing body of cricket is considering trimming down the length of a match from 5 days to 4 days for the 2023-2031 cycle.

Although, there are several reasons behind taking this step. First of all, nowadays test matches do not go beyond the third and the fourth day of the match and the last day in schedule often goes waste.

In the previous era, there were many matches which ended u in draws even after playing all 5 days. But cricket has evolved over the years and in result this year only three test matches were drawn and all three were affected by rain.

4-day test matches will allow ICC to host more matches in a calendar year. BCCI is demanding more bilateral series from ICC. Currently, India is at the no.1 spot in ICC rankings and they have dominated every touring nation in India.

In the last two test series in India, the matches were lasting maximum of 4 days. India had won the day-night test against Bangladesh in 2 and a half days.

Cricket Australia chief Kevin Roberts told SEN Radio, “It is something that we have got to seriously consider this week. It is something that can’t be driven by emotion, but it needs to be driven by fact. We need to look at what’s the average length of Test matches over the past five-ten years in terms of time and overs.”

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It could be a move which can change the game completely and can utilize in adding more number of matches across all formats, it can not be denied that change is always constant.

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra

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Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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