article_snippet.sent: These are the types of innings you remember when you retire.
article_snippet.sent: That is what you get in Test cricket.
article_snippet.sent: This is far harder than going off towards the end of your career and enjoying an IPL sunset.
article_snippet.sent: why this game gives you far more satisfaction than you will ever get over 50 or 20 overs.
article_snippet.sent: ‘these pitches are just too dead and Test cricket is slow’.
article_snippet.sent: The Test England won in the dark of Karachi was remembered for years because it was the ultimate conclusion to three hard Tests.
article_snippet.sent: This is not to denigrate Twenty20 or what we saw at the World Cup but there is something fulfilling about seeing a match go to the fifth day as in Antigua, with England bowling 130 overs and trying to find different ways to take 10 wickets.
article_snippet.sent: we live in a modern world of instant news where Test cricket seems something of a throwback but there is still great satisfaction to be taken from a slow burner.
article_snippet.sent: I find the mental side of Test cricket to be unparalleled.
article_snippet.sent: To be Jonathan Trott, for instance, getting a duck in Jonathan Trott first innings after waiting to get back in for 18 months.
article_snippet.sent: Then Jonathan Trott has to spend the best part of two days fielding and sweating on a pair.
article_snippet.sent: There is the physical challenge of a bowling attack spending all that time in the heat trying to bowl a side out and then having to go through it all again.
article_snippet.sent: In Twenty20 you can have a bit of a slog, edge through the slips for four to get you off and running and then get caught on the boundary which is supposed to happen in the short game.
article_snippet.sent: I thoroughly enjoy the different attractions of limited-overs cricket.
article_snippet.sent: But Test cricket is what players will be remembered for.