article_snippet: Colin Graves says Colin Graves wants to 'jazz up' Test matches by reducing them to four days .
article_snippet: Colin Graves has risked offending cricket’s purists, saying Colin Graves wants to ‘jazz up’ Test matches by reducing ‘jazz up’ Test matches to four days from the traditional five.
article_snippet: If you look at the lords.org website worldwide, Test cricket is shrinking in the number of people who are watching Test cricket on TV and in the grounds.
article_snippet: Somehow, somewhere, there is a way to improve Test cricket.
article_snippet: I think we should look at four-day Test cricket and play 105 overs a day starting at half past ten in the morning, with the ground drainage you’ve got now, and finish when you finish, as all the grounds now have lights.
article_snippet: Every Test match would start on a Thursday, so you have two days for corporates, and two days for families.
article_snippet: Graves’ formula would trim a total of only 30 overs off a Test: the current format is five days of 90 overs each).
article_snippet: Only last season the games against Sri Lanka at Lord’s and Headingley both came down to the final over.
article_snippet: Test teams habitually struggle to bowl the current minimum of 90 without making use of the extra half-hour allotted to Test teams.
article_snippet: Cricket would also lose one of Cricket enduring charms: the deteriorating fifth-day pitch, even if these are less common than these used to be.
article_snippet: Too many have harrumphed ineffectually over the future of the Test game in those parts of the world that favour the shorter formats – only then to announce the formation of yet another domestic Twenty20 tournament.
highlights_snippet: Colin Graves believes Test cricket is 'shrinking' in the number of viewers .
  
highlights_snippet: Reductions would trim a total of only 30 overs off a Test .