Barney Ronay

What a game Test cricket is. Cut to the bone but still a different level to every other format. Its death is a paradigm of dumb consumerism. Money and margins tell you to make a worse product. At the end of which you have money, for a while, and a worse product for ever

An amazing win for England; and West Indies beat Australia by 8 runs. This thing called Test cricket might just catch on.

Enjoyed the coverage of the first test by the way. Sky's is obviously very good but it is refreshing to see different voices perhaps Kevin Pietersen apart. Matt Floyd back in blighty did a really good job I thought conveying the state of play in between the live coverage. For tests 2, 3, 4 and 5 TNT are upping the budget and are sending Alaistair Cook and a small team to Stockholm to provide discussion between the live coverage using the studio's they have booked for their Champions League coverage. Pity there are no highlights packages on free to air at tea time each day