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Originally Posted by Occasional Fan  It's very worrying. I can see test cricket played by national teams disappearing in the very short term, with only Twenty20 and one-day cricket able to pay the high salaries which players will demand. If five day cricket can survive at all, it may be played by scratch touring teams individually sponsored for each tour, just as it was 150 years ago. So much for progress. |
I admit that this IPL thing is taking on bigger proportions than I originally anticipated. However, I still don't think it will result in the end of Test cricket, because ultimately the players themselves will still want to play. Nowhere have they said that they want to stop- some of them
have said that if they had to choose, they might pick the IPL- but ideally, I'd think that most players would want to play both the IPL and Test cricket, something looking increasingly possible with Haroon Lorgat being in favour of an IPL window.
EDIT: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what the match fees are for T20s, ODIs and Tests? Because if money is a strong motivating factor for the cricketers (and it seems that it is), then one very simple sloution to preserve Test cricket IMO is to just make the fees for Tests higher than for ODIs. I think this is especially important for the teams with lower salaries- to make it as profitable for the players to stick to Tests than ODIs.