God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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Cricket has become a reality series which generates characters like Kholi whose personal life and what his baby is named is as important as his test average because it all makes money.

Agreed, no doubt about it, but there is no rule or relationship that prevents all that being distinct from the prestige of the established sport. Like the Tour de France, Augusta, Monacco, Lords, Wimbledon, there is money in it but it's not about the money.

I feel the old establishment needed to retain guardianship over the traditional game of cricket, and so preserve the prestige, not pander to the new world order.