BBC Sport - Test cricket: Does the oldest form of the game have a future?

It might seem odd to be contemplating the future of Test cricket in the middle of a sold-out Ashes summer.

But the undimmed appeal of five-day contests between England and Australia only highlights the wider problem in other countries.

In India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand - and even to a certain extent Australia - crowds for Test matches are falling. Set against thegrowing popularity of Twenty20 cricket (particularly in India and Australia) there are concerns at the highest levels of the game that its most traditional format could die out.

For The Editors, a BBC programme which sets out to ask challenging questions, I decided to find out whether Test cricket, the longest and oldest form of the game, has a future.

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