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SIMON SWEETMAN

Aussie joy: but it could have been frustration if Test had been over just four days

So Australia wrapped up the Brisbane Test with most of day five left. But what if this had been a four-day Test, such being all the rage for no clearly defined reason.
Let’s forget the notion of four days of 100 overs. That’s an hour extra and seven hours is probably too long a day in a four-day match (and they wouldn’t bowl the overs any quicker). By day three England would have been trying ...