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Originally Posted by Osem
What he actually said was:
"We're disappointed with that final 50 run partnership but the way Straussy went out and played, keeping Test cricket alive at 100-1 we're over the moon."
I do think that some of the terrifically exciting matches there've been over the last year or two (including this one, some of the recent Ashes tests and Australia's recent win against all the odds) have done a great deal to prove that test cricket has a future.
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Sad fact is England are the only draw in test cricket, we are the only nation that packs out stadiums when we visit, Kiwi's don't bother going in vast numbers to see them play the West Indies or South Africa for instance, the only other place where you can guarantee a crowd in on the Indian sub continent. That said Test cricket still has a future, it's the purest and hardest form of the game and long may it continue.