RR proprietor Manoj Badale says Test cricket ‘could work’ if carried out in comparable fast window yearly

Will Test cricket must be lowered to easily fast house home windows similar to the Wimbledon in tennis to make it a further viable product? Rajasthan Royals proprietor Manoj Badale thinks so.

Talking to the Tailenders podcast, Badale acknowledged: “We can make Test cricket work if we make it more of an event. We should have it at the same time every year, played between a small set of nations that can actually afford it and Lord’s becomes like a Wimbledon, an event that is the diary.”

The overladen annual calendar has compelled many cricketers to call time on numerous format of the sport. England Test captain Ben Stokes, for example, retired from ODIs closing July claiming that “there is too much cricket” and avid gamers “are not cars that can be refilled and go back out there”.

Badale acknowledged that the reply to this was pondering creatively in the best way by which the schedules was made.

“The amount of times I hear arguments like ‘Ben Stokes wants to play Test cricket’ – that is important but what is really important is what the fans of the future want to watch and where are they going to spend their hard-earned money. We are going to have to think creatively about Test cricket if we want it to work,” acknowledged Badale.

Badale, in fact, believes that the world’s biggest avid gamers is likely to be collaborating in cricket on 220-230 days of the 12 months, all through T20, one-day and Tests rapidly.

He went on in order so as to add that he expects franchises to “become bigger entities” ultimately.

“I do genuinely believe in the next three to five years there are a number of choices that the administrators are going to make that are going to be really game-defining,” he acknowledged.

“We are the second most-popular sport in the world at the moment but our real competition is other forms of entertainment. We’ve got too many franchise leagues now so you can have a hierarchy of the IPL, some major leagues and then some minor leagues,” he added.