The current state of Test cricket does not seem to be very encouraging in terms of its survival. With the longer format of the game struggling, suggestions to reduce Tests from their current five-day duration to four days and breaking up the current Test cricket structure into two different tiers have done the rounds recently.
However, Anurag Thakur, the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, dismissed notions that these reforms will revive Test cricket.
"If you don't have a foolproof format in front of you, where is it going to help the game of cricket? I think we should not even [get] into that," Thakur told ESPNcricinfo in Florida before India's Twenty20 International series against West Indies in the United States and went on to add that he was referring to both the proposed four-day Tests and two-tier Test structure reforms.
The BCCI president however commented that the Indian cricket body was open to using the Decision Review System, minus the Hawk-Eye projections, which are used to deliberate leg-before-wicket calls. "You can have some and leave [Hawk-Eye]," said Thakur. "If that comes as an option, we can look into that."
India have traditionally been sceptical of using the DRS, mainly because of their contention that the Hawk-Eye projections were not 100 percent foolproof.
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