How is it that Australia goes to the Land of the Long White Cloud this week and plays only two Test matches against those highly competent Kiwis, when a third game could easily have been fitted in the program?

Instead, three pointless T20 games will be played.

So much for the pious outrage, by both nations, directed at the Sarth Efrikans about their cricket priorities. Test match cricket isn’t dying of exhaustion … it’s being slowly strangled by a greedy corporate culture intent on swelling coffers.

If you are going to throw stones, you shouldn’t live in a glass house.