I have been seeing the split of Test cricket coming for a long, long time. Years ago I suggested that they have two divisions in Test match cricket. And this was before T20 swamped this landscape.

What I suggested then was two divisions of six, with promotion and relegation, played over a three or four-year cycle. But I would like to see the top teams, in Division One, play the teams in Division Two once in each cycle.

If the top teams want to play each other twice in the cycle, that is fine, because there are only six – as long as they play the teams in the bottom division once in that........

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