Overview

• Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg said that not every cricket board needs Test status, warning that mandatory five-day schedules could bankrupt smaller nations and that scarcity drives commercial value.
• Mitchell Johnson countered in his West Australian column that saving Test cricket requires lifting emerging boards through support rather than excluding them.
• Johnson urged the Big Three—Australia, India and England—to provide hands-on guidance and reinvest revenue into grassroots coaching and infrastructure across developing cricket nations.
• He warned that confining Tests to wealthy countries risks a “slow death” for the format as players and fans shift to shorter, more lucrative competitions.
• The ICC’s working group led by Roger Twose continues to explore two-tier and promotion-relegation models for the World Test Championship with no formal decisions announced.