Thakur not for ‘four-day Tests’, ‘two-tier system’

FLORIDA: BCCI president Anurag Thakur made it clear that while he is ready to accept DRS without the usage of ‘Hawk Eye’, the world’s richest cricket board is not

FLORIDA: BCCI president Anurag Thakur made it clear that while he is ready to accept DRS without the usage of ‘Hawk Eye’, the world’s richest cricket board is not keen on four-day Tests and a two-tier system. “If you don’t have a foolproof format in front of you, where is it going to help the game of cricket? I think we should not even (get into) into that,” Thakur told ESPNcricinfo when asked about a possible tweak in the longest format. He wants to dig deep into the issue of bringing back spectators rather than curtailing the duration of the game.

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