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How West Indies' Twenty20 success could save Test cricket

Sat, Apr 23, '16

 

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The West Indies cricket team, with all their bling and bravado, are the very incarnation of the modern game. Stick them in whites, send them out to face a bunch of gimlet-eyed Aussies, and they will be lucky to extend a Test match to a third day. But give them maroon pyjamas, a white ball and a pumping soundtrack, and they will smack you into next week.
The surprising thing is that the West Indies’ Jekyll-and-Hyde performances over the past few months might just have saved Test cricket. They have provided a petrie-dish study of where the game will go, should sporting capitalism be allowed to run free. Thankfully, the laboratory staff – otherwise known as the International Cricket Council – are beginning to notice some toxic side-effects.

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