ICC ponders four-day Test switch

David Morgan is also considering shorter Test matches

The International Cricket Council is considering the introduction of four-day and day-night Test matches.

The game's world governing body is determined to preserve Test cricket as the pre-eminent form of the game.

ICC president David Morgan said that in assessing potential changes, they had to take what fans wanted into account.

"There will not be four-day Test match cricket in one year's time although we may have day-night Test cricket," he told BBC World Service.

"Four-day Test match cricket is just one of many options that we are contemplating to make it the pinnacle of the sport which it has been for over a hundred years.

"Four-day Tests are just an option and more probable is the introduction of day-night Test cricket."

The idea of floodlit Test matches was pioneered by Kerry Packer's World Series in the late 1970s.

And in 2007, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said they hoped to conduct a floodlit Test trial within two years.

It has yet to happen but the possibility has increased with the ICC moving a review of Test cricket to the top of its agenda because of the continuing increase in popularity of the Twenty20 format - and dwindling attendances for Tests in some countries.

"Some Test matches finish in four days and some in five and we want as many people as possible to turn up to these matches. We want Test matches in certain countries to be more spectator-friendly," said Morgan.

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Morgan is very aware the paying customer must be catered for and all options to keep the game as attractive as possible must be considered.

Morgan added: "It is the customer and not just the player we have in mind on our quest to enrich Test match cricket which is the most demanding form of our great sport.

"We would only move from five-day to four-day if we considered it to be in the interests of Test match cricket.

"Representatives from the 10 Test playing nations are working and have been for over six months."

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