World cricket's concern is future of Tests

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South Africa, which is not part of the Big Three, will play less Test cricket than Bangladesh! They play 32 Tests as against Bangladesh's 35 in the new FTP and that works out to eight a year, that's way less than England's 46, Australia's 40 and India's 37.These numbers are not written in stone, teams can have bilateral series outside FTP.

India and West Indies are the two major attractions for ODIs. Both will play 61 games each while Sri Lanka and Australia 48 each, South Africa 45 and England 43.

The calmour in India is for more matches at home, protection of its domestic season, essentially in the winter months, like all other countries jealously safeguard theirs.

From time to time the Indian board keeps saying that Australia and South Africa should also go out and play overseas during their domestic season just as the others do.

For instance, Australia insist on staying home to play their Boxing Day and New Year Tests, they are not willing to acede to the request for playing the two important games in South Africa once in a way.