As yet another wicket tumbled in the second Test at the Newlands Cricket Ground, Mark Nicholas, the MCC president, former England-A and Hampshire captain and now one of the most distinct voices in the game, told The Hindu: “I don’t really think it is the best thing for Test cricket to have a Test match over in a day and a half. Four days is fine, three days is acceptable but a day and a half is not good for any of us really, the fun as it might have been, and the amount of records it has set has been amazing.”
Among those records was the shortest completed match in Test history. The previous record – South Africa was also at its receiving end – was set by Australia in 1932. If it took the Aussies to win 656 balls, India needed 14 less.
