God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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Quentin DeKock just retired from Test Cricket but will play the shorter formats, been batting like he couldnt care less in the recent series vs India and says he wants to spend more time with the family but I think he wants more money and less effort.

It's not purely about money although I concede that money affects the decision.

The problem is there is just too much cricket, there is no off-season.

Until there are some global rules about how much and who can play things are only going to get worse, the ICC is addicted to the BCCI dollar so I can't see it happening.

I heard a suggestion that I thought was on the money, pardon the pun, put a cap on how many professional games players can actually play as a "guardian rule" to prevent the quality of the cricket diminishing, and make it applicable across all forms of the sport. Because despite how much T20 pays, one T20 still doesn't pay as much as one test. If you cap international players at say 30 games per season, they are going to have to make very hard decisions. Because 30 T20 games won't get the bulk of them the money that they want. This gives national bodies a chance of matching the money. Anyway, something like that is needed to stop T20 marching over the grave of Test Cricket.