In a move that is likely to look more like a business plan than one in the interests of the sport, the IPL Chairman and Commissioner is calling for Test cricket to change completely in format into a day and night version.
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Modi stated that Test cricket needed a revamp in order to survive, "I am a great supporter of Test cricket. People say I'm not but I also run the marketing department of the BCCI and Test cricket is extremely important to us. All I am trying to do is remind people that we live in a modern age and Test cricket has a big problem: it is played in the daytime when most people are working."
"Whether we like it or not, broadcasting determines whether a game survives. Without broadcasters you don't have money to pay players or keep the sport alive. You don't need to fiddle with the format at this stage. All you need do is change the timing. If we went day-night then we would see a real resurgence in the ratings. Look at Twenty20. It has gone to night cricket and the viewership has exploded."
The question really is - is the Test cricket really in need of this kind of revamp, and there are several complications involved, or whether the boards want to reduce Test cricket to a circus blindly based on the fact that Twenty20 has been able to capture the night time prime television timing?
There is also a danger of Test cricket not surviving because younger cricketers simply don't want to work for it anymore because it all coming too easy by way of Twenty20 leagues.
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