What needs to be done for Test cricket to stay relevant?

TimmyJ is really an Incarnated Dino  !

proposal should be considered Fossil manure  ....

"...and there shall be a new birth,  :o dedicated to the proposition that cricket for the fans, of the fans, and by
the fans shall not perish from this earth."  :-* :-* :-*

Michael Vaughn took on this question today in his column in The Daily Telegraph. Among some of his suggestions include reducing the game to four days with 96 overs to be bowled each day, lower ticket prices, play more day/night Tests, have players wear coloured clothing and introduce two divisions with promotion and relegation.

Quote: Meanwhile, the game meanders on with bilateral series to decide the world no 1 in with a points system that nobody outside the ICC can understand.

Why not have two divisions with each side playing one another on a set basis with promotion and relegation? The West Indies are not good enough at the moment to be playing Australia. Their best players are in Australia but playing for Big Bash teams not the West Indies. Money talks.

A combined Big Bash XI would beat this West Indies team. They should be in division two. A top division of six with a bottom division of another six bringing Ireland and Afghanistan in the fold. The associates are desperate to play Tests. Give them a chance.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket...n-era.html

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A combined Big Bash XI would beat this West Indies team. They should be in division two. A top division of six with a bottom division of another six bringing Ireland and Afghanistan in the fold. The associates are desperate to play Tests. Give them a chance.
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This makes sense.

The  only way to save test cricket is to ban  20  20 and ODI'S.
The only way to save cricket is to get rid of Test cricket