THE ECB are wary of the proposed two-tier model for Test cricket’s future, with ECB chairman Richard Thompson expressing his concerns to BBC’s Test Match Special.
“We may go through a fallow period, and that means, what, we fall into Division Two and we don’t play Australia and India?” Thompson said.
“That couldn’t happen. There has to be a sense that common sense needs to play out here.”
He added: “The World Test Championship could work better than it does. It has definitely improved the narrative, [and] it has created ...