The Real Cricket

Although Cricket officials and marketing agencies like to portray One day Cricket as the major attraction, especially in India,it is high time the test matches are paid attention if cricket has to retain interest in the country.India is currently ranked a poor seventh in ODIs and a healthy third in Test Match cricket.England is ranked sixth and second. Test Match cricket has catapulted cricket back to national consciousness in the UK, so much so that even David Beckham admits to watching test Match Cricket.
Backing the Indian ODI fortunes will result in the repeated failures being telecast and after a time will lead to fatigue.Inspite of our Huge TV audience, Cricket hardly gets the kind of Audience that Channel 4 got this month(13% of all UK nationals watched the Old Trafford Test).Why we have a decent Test side and a poor ODI team is something which will be evident when India is run close by Zimbabwe in the Tri series.