T20 Tests!!!!! You've Got To Be Kidding

When I first came across the thought of T20 Tests,I really couldn't believe it, let alone getting down to understanding the reason behind it.As the ICC debates on ways to save test cricket from the new T20 format, this new idea of T20 tests is slowly taking shape. One of the reasons given is that top players who fail in the T20 will be given another chance in the second innings. What nonsense is that! If one fails, one fails too bad and you wait for the next game. That is the beauty of T20 cricket. Spare a thought for the bowlers as well who take a tremendous beating in the T20 format.They work hard to get a wicket only to realise that they have to do it all over again.
If it does come into existence, what would be the difference between an ODI (50 overs a side) and a T20( 40 overs a side). The reason why T20 has attracted the crowds is largely because of the short time involved in watching the game. Crowds are more at T20 games rather than ODI games. The income generated from a test match over a period of five days would surely be equivalent to that of an ODI.
On the recently concluded first test of the Ashes series in Cardiff, can anyone really say that Test Cricket is boring!!!!!!!How many people watching it, regardless of where they were, had any nails left to bite? Or does one need to be reminded of the 2005 Ashes series? Its not only the Ashes but so many tests in between that have left crowds excited and amused.
Test Cricket is the true format which brings out a players abilities. Fitness, Endurance, Game sense, Strategy, Technique and to somewhat innovation. 'TEST' the term says it all. Almost any Tom, Dick and Harry can play the T20 format of the game, but of course only the best excel at it. One must be out of their minds to replace test cricket with T20 Tests. Cricket would lose its charm altogether and would also lose its status as a 'true sport' which is enhanced by a players ability to play test cricket. So many cricketers play ODI'S and T20's but very few (the best of the best) get a TEST call up. Becoming a test call up indicates that one has reached a certain level of cricket and can be called a 'cricketer'. Take Yuvraj Singh and Shahid Afridi, for example.Both have already become legends at the T20 format but have had little success on the big stage. Big stage does not mean where one draws entertainment and dancers but in the true format of cricket,which is Test cricket.
Cricket is called the gentlemans game' which also involves an intense test of the mind. So let us stick to it and keep Test cricket and not let it be taken over by semi clad dancers and the corporate world (IPL). If one really needs to introduce T20 tests, do it at the cost of ODIS. For in my mind I see no difference between a T20 test and an ODI. Similar scores will be posted and the time taken would also be the sane.LET TEST CRICKET BE.