New ECB chairman proposes four-day Test matches

Incoming ECB chief Colin Graves hopes changes will help save Test cricket from extinction

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He made his fortune as the founder of the Costcutter supermarket chain and now Colin Graves, the chairman elect of the England Cricket Board, wants to slash Test Day cricket from five to four days.

The 67-year-old Graves, who officially begins his five-year tenure at the ECB on 15 May, believes that Test cricket is in danger of extinction such is the soaring popularity of Twenty 20 cricket and to a lesser extent the 50-over game.

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