Greg Chappell

You know, it is chess on legs.

It's a really strategic game.

How the ball, how you manage the ball, how the ball deteriorates or not, how the pitch deteriorates over five days.

You know, the conditions can change from the first day to the last day.

And, you know, the emotional side of it, let alone the physical side of going out there five days in a row.

You know, as a bowler, fast bowler particularly, how do you keep running in and bowling fast on two or three occasions during a five-day game?

As a batter, how do you go out in the second innings and bat with confidence when you haven't got any?

You know, it really tests the individual.

And I would hate cricket to lose that.

And so I demand the current custodians of the game really look at how we can...

managed to keep it going.

Now, I know for most countries, it's too hard.

We spend a lot of money in Australia, in England, in India on domestic cricket and development programs.

Not many countries can do that.

And without a viable domestic first-class system, it's really hard to produce test cricket teams that are viable and can be a champion team.

And interestingly enough, over my career, over my life,

The teams that have dominated cricket for periods of time, South Africa back in the 60s before they were banned, the West Indies, Australia and England at different times, they all came from systems that had six teams.

So having your best players in a tighter knit as possible

Domestic competition, you know, fires the champions to go and play test cricket.

So, you know, we've got to keep spending money on developing our players and we do that by domestic cricket.