One of the key speakers at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday was former India cricket captain Rahul Dravid.
Dravid spoke at length about the threat to test cricket by the Twenty20 format.
“(Whether or not) Test matches will be threatened by Twenty20 can be decided only by the scheduling that is done and the way they are decided,” he said.
Dravid also said the new generation of cricketers would want to play Test cricket and not just restrict themselves to the shortest version of the game. “Ask me if kids playing 20-20 don’t aspire to play Test matches, my answer will be, no they have grown up watching test matches and they obviously want to be a part of them,” he said.
He also spoke about players playing in the spirit of the game. “The spirit of the game has improved and the behaviour of the players has actually improved over the years. But if media lays focus on small events on field of bickering, then that is unnecessary,” he said.
