Hard yards: Steve Finn feels the pain as Sri Lanka benefit from flat window in Photo of the Lord: PABut I will still be less keen on a final Test World Championship at Lord's in 2013.
Why? The damned pitch, that is why. This is not some rant because it seems that the eternal replace Cardiff on the list of the West Indies tour next year, even if clearly was much more spin in the Department of CMC PR that out of the environment last week.
Test of a Lord is, has always been and always will be a wonderful opportunity. But I have absolutely no idea of how they will determine the winner of this final. They will play the game for six days or more?
They will be hand just the trophy on the side with an advance to first sleeves? Mr. Duckworth and Lewis concocted a magic formula, we are talking about?
It is a concern, as indeed the heights of Test everywhere are. Last week Lord's pitch was simply too flat. Yes, you can point to the skid of the trio of Englandbeanpoles and the loss of the game due to rain, but the truth is that the surface looked like never deteriorate.
All the baloney on the allegedly late Declaration of England was just that; Baloney. Cardiff's pitch for the first Test may be painfully slow, but at least it has deteriorated.
Pitch of the Lord may not appear all that draws dozy as he did for six consecutive between 2006 and 2008, but is however not the case for the examination of the five results prior to the draw last week against sri Lanka bears scrutiny.
They include the presence of a lack of interest in the West Indies in 2009, a Bangladesh exceeded in 2010 and two Tests involving Pakistan, last summer, including the less said the better. However, the 2009 ashes victory was quite wonderful in all respects.
Test cricket has need of land with life. A category whereas as much should be writ large in England and Wales Cricket Board country "balanced scorecard" for allocations of Test.
Premiums must be paid to strike a balance ' to the players on the field test.
Groundhog days on "land of the Chief Executive", as coined by Steve Harmison in one of his moments more perceptive, should attract not only our censorship, but financial pain, not the gain of these business leaders anticipate.
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