Frankie Mackay

But if you had to just ask me, do you want to see the white fans playing test match cricket again?

Or my answer as a fan and a lover of cricket is absolutely, yes, I would.

How you make it happen?

that becomes the trickier thing to do.

Oh, there'd need to be some structure put in place around it, that's for sure.

I think when I was playing domestic cricket, I was one of the few players that had ever played with a cricket ball that wasn't a white ball.

So being able to speak about playing club cricket that was –

Two-day cricket, when I grew up playing it, you played with a red ball, you had white clothing, you had declarations come in, you had multi-innings.

So all the things that come into it are just players, even now who are in their 20s, late 20s, they've never had the opportunity to experience that at any level of cricket, school cricket, club cricket.

So then to ask people to then be able to do that at an international level, that's actually a really big ask.

Being realistic, I think it's a really hard ask to say to people, rock up, play an international test match, you've never had any experience in it before and just see how you go.

I think there needs to be a little more planning that goes in behind the scenes than that.

Yeah, I've heard it through the grapevine that that's been a little bit of a recurring theme over the last few years, actually.

So, I mean, at some point, if the best teams in the world have shown that they have an appetite for wanting to play test match cricket, and it's not necessarily playing, you know, big extended five-match test series, our blackcaps can't even get that and don't even get that regularly scheduled for them.

It's around the women's game at the moment, that multi-format series.

So you look at the Women's Ashes, which is, I guess, one of the big series.

Australia, India, the same.

They play three T20s, three one-dayers, one test match, and you get different points for different games or different results in games.

And so that all combines towards the trophy and how many points you can win in that.

So I think that's a great way to structure a series, to structure cricket.