Test cricket in jeopardy, says Holding

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Michael Holding believes that T20 format is causing irreparable damage to the Test cricket.

27 August,2011 01:24 pm

Former West Indies pace legend, Michael Holding, is unhappy at the current state of Test cricket and believes the T20 format is causing irreparable damage to the games longer format.When you see what is happening all around the world with all this Twenty20 cricket -- Australia have now gone to two months of Twenty20 cricket, nothing else, the former West Indies international said.He added: The format is not good because you cannot produce good cricketers from Twenty20, but also because it is so highly biased, financially.Holding, who took 249 wickets in 60 Tests, was also concerned for the future of his craft.It is pretty ordinary, he said of the worlds current stock of fast bowlers.You dont have too many fast bowlers around the world these days, and I think since there is so much cricket being played, its difficult to keep on producing fast bowlers, he concluded.