Well... I agree that the number of test matches should be reduced. Apart from a few series such as the Ashes, Border-Gavaskar and Trans-Tasman, very few cricket fans nowadays watch the test matches. And even then, teams spend anywhere from 50 to 80 days every year playing test cricket (more than that in any other format). The way to move forward is to reduce the number of test matches, and to increase the number of T20 matches. But there is a lot of resistance from the ICC and BCCI. The sooner they realize it, that better.
You have a weird obsession with Trans-Tasmen series
. It's considered one of the dead bilateral series in Australia, it's similar to Ind vs SL where only one team wins and statspad all the time.
I noticed many posters are here saying that Test cricket is dying, this statement is half true. Numbers suggest that in BIG-3, it's doing more than enough, you have to look at how CA and ECB are fetching big amounts for their test series against India. In the current cycle Media rights deal broke the previous records.
Test cricket is dying argument only works when someone is playing 3 or 2 matches series.
Here I agree, now test cricket is dying for the all other than BIG-3 which are having strong system and better environment for this as well all others are down with few are already out, and we have no positive chance for them to fightback into this format just because of this I am consistently saying ICC needs to rethink about this format and for improve of quality and performance they need to have few restrictions if these works in next few others then ok otherwise just having T20i format now could be beneficial for all members, and they can take good profit from this as well which will help them just like soccer leagues are doing in all countries.
India is the best country for the red-ball format with England and Australia are also having profit, but this all is just going between these three and if India is touring in countries like South Africa, New Zealand and West Indies then they are also having profit otherwise these all are having nothing to do with this format.