IPL expansion will kill Test cricket. Players no longer care about playing for the country

IPL expansion will kill Test cricket. Players no longer care about playing for the country

One of the founding philosophies of the BCCI has been to effectively control the game in India. The IPL has dented that control.

Same Leopard, Same Spots - Emerging Cricket

Not content with the idea of two divisions of Test cricket, Cricket Australia’s new CEO, Todd Greenberg, has suggested that perhaps Test status could be removed completely from several ICC Full members. “We want to continue playing New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies, Pakistan [as well as England and India,” he told Daniel Brettig in an interview for The Age, “but we do have to be brave enough to consider whether scarcity will provide bet…