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    "editor1": "<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan 5:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has termed the ICC&#39;s proposal of four-day Test matches &quot;a ridiculous idea&quot; and felt scrapping a day from the original format would lead to more matches ending without any result.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The ICC cricket committee is likely to consider four-day Test matches as being part of the World Test Championship from 2023. ICC&#39;s increasing demand for event windows, the proliferation of domestic T20 leagues, BCCI&#39;s demands for its own sizeable share of bilateral calendar space, and the costs of staging Test series are all said to be the factors contributing to the move.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Sharing his views on the proposal, Gambhir wrote in Sunday&#39;s column for Times of India: &quot;At the outset, let me say that I think four-day Test matches are a ridiculous idea and should be dropped immediately. It will invite drawn games, will have no place for spinners and will take away the charm of playing on a wearing fifth-day pitch.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Some felt said day-night Test cricket is the future, others felt better management of players&#39; fitness was the need of the hour. I also heard that cricket needs an &lsquo;American marketing hand&#39; to make it more of a global game. When my turn came, I listed two aspects: lack of champion cricketers and lively pitches,&quot; he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Earlier, India skipper Virat Kohli also didn&#39;t favoured the ICC&#39;s idea as he felt it was unfair to the &#39;purest format of the game&#39;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to Kohli, the concept of Day-Night Test, which is already in place in world cricket, is the most that should be brought to commercialise the traditional red-ball cricket format.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&#39;According to me, it should not be altered. As I said, the day-night is another step towards commercialising Test cricket and you know, creating excitement around it, but it can&#39;&#39;t be tinkered with too much. I don&#39;t believe so,&#39; Kohli had said on Saturday ahead of the three-match T20I series opener against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Meanwhile, South Africa pacer Vernon Philander and former Australia great Glenn McGrath had also raised objection against four-day Tests.<\/p>\r\n",
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