Greg Chappell fears competition in Test cricket could shrink to as few as four countries.The former Australia captain said on Thursday that the growth in the Twenty20 game and diminishing public interest in the traditional five-day game could see Test cricket marginalized to the fringe of the sport.Chappell was a star when Test cricket survived the World Series revolution of the late 1970s. The International...
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Greg Chappell fears competi-tion in Test cricket could shrink to as few as four countries.The former Australia captain said yesterday that the growth in the Twenty20 game and diminishing public interest in the traditional five-day game could see Test cricket marginalised to the fringe of the sport.Chappell was a star when Test cricket survived the World Series revolution of the late 1970s. The International...
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RateGreg Chappell fears competition in Test cricket could shrink to as few as four countries.The former Australia captain said on Thursday that the growth in the Twenty20 game and diminishing public interest in the traditional five-day game could see Test cricket marginalized to the fringe of the sport.Chappell was a star when Test cricket survived the World Series revolution of the late 1970s. The...
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Chappell sees Tests shrinking to a 4-nation format < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateGreg Chappell fears competition in Test cricket could shrink to as few as four countries.The former Australia captain said on Thursday that the growth in the Twenty20 game and diminishing public interest in the traditional five-day game could see Test cricket marginalized to the fringe of the sport.Chappell was a star...
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"Test cricket is the best cricket, we have to preserve it and not tamper with it", former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist, recognised as the best wicket keeper-batsman, said today.Addressing a press conference here as the Brand Ambassador of University of Wollongong in his home state New South Wales in Australia, Gilchrist said Test cricket had withstood the test of time since Kerry Packer's revolution...
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would be nice if I can go on that that long (till 2015) but I don't want to think that far"has expressed his disappointment at India not playing enough Tests in the near future. Besides the three Tests in the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka, which begins in Ahmedabad on November 16, India play only two more Tests, in Bangladesh in January, in the 2009-10 season. There are no further Test series...
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"It would be nice if I can go on that that long (till 2015) but I don't want to think that far"has expressed his disappointment at India not playing enough Tests in the near future. Besides the three Tests in the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka, which begins in Ahmedabad on November 16, India play only two more Tests, in Bangladesh in January, in the 2009-10 season. There are no further Test...
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Lankan skipper Kumaar Sangakkara has supported master blaster Sachin Tendulkar's call for more Test cricket, saying that the lopsided schedule needed to be changed.Kumaar Sangakkara has supported Sachin Tendulkar's call for more Test cricket, saying that the lopsided schedule needed to be changed.Sri Lanka has just one Test series scheduled for next year, against the West Indies at home in November."It's...
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Flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has made it clear that he has no intention of playing Test cricket until the 2011 World Cup and would be concentrating solely on the shorter versions of the game.Flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has made it clear that he has no intention of playing Test cricket until the 2011 World Cup.Afridi told PakPassion.net that since the selectors did...
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India coach Greg Chappell today said 'Test cricket is under threat from Twenty20' and something must be done to save the traditional form of the game.''I'm of the belief that we can support the three formats but obviously we have to give a very long and hard thought about how best they work together,'' Chappell, who was here to deliver the annual Bradman Oration on the state of the game, said.''I have...
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