New Cricket Australia Chief In Favour Of Reduction Of Test Playing Nations

New Cricket Australia (CA) chief Todd Greenberg believes that it is time for the stakeholders to agree on the possibility of reducing the number of Test-playing nations for the benefit of the game. 

Greenberg, who replaced Nick Hockley last month, spoke about the topic after the ICC meeting in Harare earlier this week. “It’s really important that Test cricket continue to have more than just Australia, England and India, and that’s incumbent on us,” Greenberg said, according to Wisden.com.

“We want to continue playing New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies, and Pakistan.

“But we do have to be brave enough to consider whether scarcity will provide better results for Test cricket. Maybe not everyone in global cricket needs to set themselves up to play Tests. There might be fewer countries playing, rather than all of them. That’s a mature, adult conversation about the evolution of the sport.”

Greenberg's comments are due to the different financial situations of other boards compared to the BCCI, ECB, and CA. “What was clear sitting at the ICC table, and I said this in the meeting, is the complexity is that everyone’s business models are so different," said Greenberg.

“In South Africa, as an example, Test cricket doesn’t make up the primary source of revenue, but in Australia and England, red-ball cricket holds primacy as the best revenue generator," he added.