Greg Chappell

Willow will only survive at the top end of the game for a while now.

At the lower end of the game, they're already looking at other players

materials to make cricket bats out of.

We've already got smart balls coming along with the straight bat technology with sensors on the bats to pick up all the angles and the speeds and so on.

We're already getting smart bats.

So it's not a big step to say that in 24 years' time, this is where we're going to be.

But most importantly, it will be the franchises that will own the players.

And they will say where the players will go, not the home boards.

So if we don't take care and make sure there are windows for test cricket, test cricket will just slip further and further back in the batting order.

For me, cricket without test cricket is not cricket at all.

Because 20-20 cricket resembles baseball more than it resembles cricket.

I played both.

And if I was a player, I'm sure I would enjoy playing T20 cricket.

But it has got to the stage now where nobody looks to hit the ball on the ground.

And that's not only in the white ball games now.

We're seeing young kids like this young lad from India who got up to 75 in the Under-19 World Cup.

He wasn't looking to hit the ball on the ground.

It was over the boundary first and foremost, at least one bounce if it wasn't going to go all the way.

So the next thing that I think administrators have got to really understand is that the West Indies now is a place where talent is drawn from.

It's not a power in cricket.