Test Cricket Discussions: ICC Talking About Four-Day Matches

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Four-dayers, can clearly be seen as the main enemy of slow batting too. With time reducing, the batters have to score at a greater rate than they do today. So slow batters, no matter how high their averages might be, will have to be dropped.

Slow batting is an art of test cricket which can be crucial at times. So looking to eradicate it is to insult cricketing skill.

A similar situation will be for bowlers with good averages but average strike rates.

All these things clearly highlight the most important point: how the basic game structure is going to get destroyed.

ICC has not understood the fact that changes are very useful in improving the game for today's generation, but it is not good to shake the basic roots of the game.

Modifications have to be made. But shaking the fundamentals is blasphemous. And this new rule can shake of one of the main fundamentals: patience.

Some of the best moments in the game are based on patience and some of the worst are based on the lack of it.

Having day and night matches is such a good idea. Work on that. Work on these good ideas which would help the cricket fans see matches when they are actually free.

Change balls to facilitate this. Or do anything else that helps. But work on good.

Also, having four-day matches at first-class level makes more sense. The young guys are being prepared for tougher stages. Though if possible, I don't mind having at this level too.

So why is this being done?

Why doesn't the ICC realise that they have gain some popularity among real cricket enthusiasts (I don't think the 'fans' who just waste their time arguing when they have no basis for them are any threat to the ICC)?

And most importantly, ICC is there to protect the game and not to try and destroy its basic body because the beard wasn't matching with it.

I would much rather have the beard (t20 cricket) destroyed. But wanting this requires common sense.

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