22-07-2025
INSIDE CRICKET: Greedy, self-serving proposals for two-division Test cricket would DESTROY the game as we know, writes LAWRENCE BOOTH
It's happening, folks. Two-division Test cricket, the beginning of the end of the oldest format as we know it, could be heading your way from 2027 after the ICC commissioned a working party, led by their new chief executive Sanjog Gupta, to examine the possibility of a new structure.
The move, which could involve two leagues of six, with promotion and relegation, has long seemed inevitable – mainly because the so-called Big Three like playing each other so much, and never mind about saturation point.
