Mark Taylor. (Photo Source: Twitter)
After all three Test matches of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy concluded in just three days, former Australia skipper Mark Taylor has suggested that moving forward, the teams should play four-day Test matches instead of five.
He also mentioned that cricket should evolve with time, and this decision should be taken soon, as he believes that four-day Test matches work better in modern-day cricket. The 58-year-old also stated that the captains of all the teams could be more adventurous in such a scenario.
“I think cricket should move with the times and bring in four-day Test matches. I think it just works better. Players like to have three days off between games, so four-day Test matches work. You play something like Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, or Friday to Monday, then three days off and then you can do it all again. So, I think it works well and it also puts the onus on skippers to be a little bit more adventurous at times,” Mark Taylor said as quoted by Sportskeeda.
It was very poor: Mark Taylor on Indore’s surface at Holkar Stadium
The surface at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore has been the talk of the town. After India lost the third Test by nine wickets, former cricketers like Dilip Vengsarkar, and Krishnamachari Srikkanth among many others, criticised the conditions and the International Cricket Council too was unhappy and thus, rated it ‘poor’ and gave it three demerit points.
Mark Taylor rated it poorly as well. Assessing the conditions, he stated that the cricketers expect the ball to turn and to keep low, but not from the very first day.
“It was very poor. I think that was a very kind conclusion drawn by the ICC. When you go to India you expect to play on low, slow-turning pitches – that’s been the case for as long as I’ve known the game of cricket and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s the way you expect to play in India. But you don’t expect the ball to go through the surface of the pitch on day one and that’s what happened,” Taylor added.
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