Lopping a day off Test matches – just how insecure does cricket now feel? | Emma John

Nothing compares with five-dayers as the sport’s ultimate battle, so why shorten them? Are some sports just crisis junkies? Less than a week into a new decade cricket already needs rescuing again. So forget all you can of the past six months – a World Cup final that stood alone in history, one of the greatest ever Test comebacks, the good-news expansion of top-tier nations – and concentrate, if you will, on the negatives. Test cricket just isn’t popular enough. And that,