|| CF Correspondent ||

The International Cricket Council chairman Shashank Manohar said that they are trying to organize the Test championship in order to revive Test cricket as it is literally dying.

‘’We are trying to see whether Test championship can generate interest, because Test cricket is actually dying to be honest,’’ Manohar told reporters at a city hotel on Thursday.

‘’So to improve the situation, we are trying ways and means. The board directors came to a conclusion that if we start a Test championship, it would keep Test cricket alive and generate more interest in the game.

Manohar, who was the first ICC chairman to pay a visit to Bangladesh, addressed a press-conference in a city hotel on Thursday and he was given a reception by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on his arrival to the neighbouring nation.

Manohar believed that Twenty20 cricket can globalize the cricket as it is a short format but he didn’t see Bangladesh’s chances of hosting an ICC event before 2023. 

‘’If you look at the TRPs of the broadcasters, Twenty20 got the maximum TRPs. And it’s because it’s a shorter version of game. Now-a-days people don’t have five-day time to watch a Test match. From 10 to 5, everyone has his own work to do. So it’s very difficult to watch these games. Twenty20 gets over in Three and a half hours, as like watching a movie. Therefore it’s picking up very fast,’’ he said.

‘’As the date 2023, the calendar has already prepared by my predecessors when I was not here then. So if you are going to get an event, it will be after 2023 not before that,’ he added.