Frankie Mackay

I think it's great to have teams getting challenged across all three formats of the game.

The issue is, you know, what leads it first?

Do you get a domestic structure?

Do you get something in place which then allows you to say, yes, thank you, we will play those test matches?

Or do you actually just have to bite the bullet and say the first couple are going to be a little bit ropey?

That's going to be a real challenge for our players.

But actually, in showing that that is going to be the future of the game, actually then...

that's leading the way.

And you then have to say, okay, well, to be successful at it, we then have to put some things in place.

So it's a tough one to answer because yes, you want that structure, you want players to go on and be successful.

But the danger in saying that is that it almost feels like a little bit of a convenient excuse at times that they keep getting offered.

And it just says, well, you know, we haven't changed anything.

So our answer is still no.

And I just have that fear that

10 years down the line, we might be having the same conversation that says, well, the White Ferns keep getting offered these test matches.

There's still no domestic red ball cricket, four-day cricket.

There's no structure towards it.

So they keep saying no.

And potentially that's to the detriment of players in this country, to the detriment of White Ferns, and maybe to the detriment as well of being able to play some of those big marquee series at the big grounds at the right times of year.

And here it comes.