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Steve Smith, David Warner Says clear No to Four-day Tests

Written by Vipin Darwade

Even as, the ICC, At a board meeting in Auckland this month, unveiled plans for four-day test matches following the rapid growth of Twenty20, Australia captain Steve Smith and David Warner say they have no desire to play four-day Tests.

“Personally, I like five so I would like to keep it at five,” Smith said in an interview with cricket.com.au.

“Just the traditional way that Test cricket has been played, I think it’s great when you get into that fifth day and enter that last hour, I think it’s a really cool part of the game” he added.

Warner was even more strident in his opposition, saying: “I have no interest in four-day cricket”.

“You have so many variables in Test match cricket – you’ve got weather, some games might be only getting three days but it just takes one day to have that weather come in and it can ruin it,” he told the same website.

“It’s the longevity, being out there on your legs, it’s grit, determination, those things come to my mind to actually want to keep playing five-day cricket”.

“Like a timeless Test (a feature of Test cricket in the 1920s and ’30s), it’s basically survival of the fittest” he added.

Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland has also indicated earlier this month it was unlikely Australia would take part any time soon.

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