adminPORT OF SPAIN. — Dwayne Bravo, West Indies’ all-rounder, has criticised the decision of the International Cricket Council to introduce the league system in Test cricket in their bid to make the conventional format of the game more interesting.
The ICC are due to have a meeting with all its member nations to suggest the concept of promotion and relegation in Tests.
The proposition is to increase the popularity of the longest form of the game, which has decreased since the introduction of Twenty20s.
The plan is to implement two-tier system in the following three years.
“It will struggle because of the shorter formats of the game,” the Trinidadian said yesterday.
“It’s shorter, it’s more entertaining, it’s more fan-friendly. The kids look more towards the shorter format,” he added.
Bravo, a veteran of 40 games who retired from Tests in 2015 to concentrate on limited-overs cricket, reckons it will take more than just the two divisional system to revive the format.
“I think people just have to face reality, times change. Kids realise that it will benefit them financially if they play the shorter format of the game. — Times of India.
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