With a view to re-invigorate Test cricket, a three-year revamped Test championship cycle to determine the best team has been recommended to the ICC’s higher authorities by its Cricket Committee which met in Dubai on May 6. A member of the committee, South African coach Micky Arthur, has written in a column that the proposed championship cycle, culminating in the top two ranked nations fighting it out for the top honours, would “give Test cricket more relevance and immediacy”. According to Arthur, the proposal, if accepted by the ICC’s Chief Executives Committee, would “get rid of the perception that some series are ‘meaningless’ and that there is never a ‘conclusion’ to the Test Championship”. The panel also recommended the use of technology to assist on-field umpires in the decision-making process. “This is simply designed to rid the game of the one or two genuinely bad decisions which occur in most Test matches.”

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