Will we see headlines like : Budding cricketer gives up T20 cricket to focus on Test match cricket?

[MenInG]

Wonder if we are ever to see a headline like that in our lifetimes?

 

[AFM]

Didn't Darren Bravo give up a T20 contract to focus on FC cricket?

 

[Convict]

Mitch Marsh

 

[Madplayer]

Don't think we will ever see somebody do it. Maybe before Ashes some Aussies or Poms might do it. Thats about it.

 

[Last Monetarist]

I think there's a lot of hyperbole about cricketers giving up test cricket to focus on T20 leagues. Apart from AB de Villiers there is no successful test cricketer that has actually chosen to forgo the longer format over the past couple of years. It's demonstrable failures at test cricket that have actually made a song and dance about giving up first class cricket: Hales, Morgan, Rashid, Buttler, Munro et al. Kevin Pietersen, who is arguably a poster child for budding T20 guns for hire, had to be dragged kicking and screaming from 5 day cricket. Even de Villiers was forced to come back.

Don't get me wrong, test cricket is ailing and quivering, but the top players still know which way their bread is buttered as far as lasting legacies in the game is concerned. Of course, I am certain that the next generation of players won't feel that way in a decade from now if the administrators continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

 

[Mr.Q]

I think in the future there will be different set of batsmen for different formats. Specialists in each format. So players might think about focusing on a particular format.

Credit should be given to T20 cricket for adding fuel to this trend.

 

[MenInG]

Mitch Marsh

Didn't Darren Bravo give up a T20 contract to focus on FC cricket?

Interesting but doesnt seem to be the way forward it seems.

 

[UN talkz]

Interesting but doesnt seem to be the way forward it seems.

Both of them did it only for some time unlike Adil Rashid or Alex Hales or Colin Munro who have completely shelved plans of playing Longer format.

Darren plays in PSL rn and was playing in IPL and CPL also last year

 

[Bilal7]

No one will willingly give up T20 cricket because that is where the money is. However, every cricketer that wants to leave behind a legacy of sorts will not give up test cricket either.

The likes of Hales, Rashid and Munro know that they'll never be good enough in the longer format and it is in their best interests to focus all their attention to the shorter formats, make a lot of money and leave the history books and legacy building to players like Cook and Williamson.

 

[barah_admi]

A lot of English cricketers have avoided numerous IPL seasons to focus on tests for their country. Some Aussies too. But no one has given up a t20 career to focus solely on tests as far as I can tell.

 

[barah_admi]

Both of them did it only for some time unlike Adil Rashid or Alex Hales or Colin Munro who have completely shelved plans of playing Longer format.

Darren plays in PSL rn and was playing in IPL and CPL also last year

With Rashid, I didn't know he had completely retired from tests? Where did you read that?

I wouldnt blame him though because the ECB have treated him like trash in the longer format.

 

[Bilal7]

With Rashid, I didn't know he had completely retired from tests? Where did you read that?

I wouldnt blame him though because the ECB have treated him like trash in the longer format.

He hasn't ruled out playing FC after the WC is done.

 

[TalhaSyed]

The question is - why would a promising young cricketer staring his career give up T20 cricket to play Test cricket?

 

[sensible-indian-fan]

I think there's a lot of hyperbole about cricketers giving up test cricket to focus on T20 leagues. Apart from AB de Villiers there is no successful test cricketer that has actually chosen to forgo the longer format over the past couple of years. It's demonstrable failures at test cricket that have actually made a song and dance about giving up first class cricket: Hales, Morgan, Rashid, Buttler, Munro et al. Kevin Pietersen, who is arguably a poster child for budding T20 guns for hire, had to be dragged kicking and screaming from 5 day cricket. Even de Villiers was forced to come back.

Don't get me wrong, test cricket is ailing and quivering, but the top players still know which way their bread is buttered as far as lasting legacies in the game is concerned. Of course, I am certain that the next generation of players won't feel that way in a decade from now if the administrators continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

No one will willingly give up T20 cricket because that is where the money is. However, every cricketer that wants to leave behind a legacy of sorts will not give up test cricket either.

The likes of Hales, Rashid and Munro know that they'll never be good enough in the longer format and it is in their best interests to focus all their attention to the shorter formats, make a lot of money and leave the history books and legacy building to players like Cook and Williamson.

Excellent points.

 

[MenInG]

The question is - why would a promising young cricketer staring his career give up T20 cricket to play Test cricket?

Because Test cricket is the ultimate test of his skills.

 

[UN talkz]

With Rashid, I didn't know he had completely retired from tests? Where did you read that?

I wouldnt blame him though because the ECB have treated him like trash in the longer format.

"It was how i felt in my heart. My mind wasn't really at ease playing red ball cricket."

What do you make of this quote, this is original quote and not some reported quote or story.

 

[TalhaSyed]

Because Test cricket is the ultimate test of his skills.

When someone is starting off their career, why would they give up the opportunity to make more money and have a more comfortable life for themselves and their family, just because Test cricket is the 'ultimate test of skill' in the opinion of some people (including myself)?

Specially - when if they really wanted to, they could try and play both.

 

[jagatk]

No one in their right mind will voluntarily decide to quit a money making vocation for a dying vocation that is not as money making. Test cricket is dying folks outside of England and Australia most of the cricket watching public don't really have much interest in Test cricket it is time people accept that fact.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

I remember Pollock explaining how he recommended to Rabada's father that KG rather play some cricket in England instead of diving into the T20 leagues. Some advice they apparently actually followed.

Guess that counts.

 

[Sachin136]

Because Test cricket is the ultimate test of his skills.

Why? Maybe a lot of players find scoring at a high RR harder.

 

[Tusker]

Because Test cricket is the ultimate test of his skills.

That's what you think. But facts dont support that. It's not all that easy to do well in LOI cricket. Ask SMG, RD, Cook etc etc etc. The reverse is also not true. Only special players do well in all formats.