Scheduling

Pakistan are putting in an official protest over the ICC's Future Tours Programme. This is the ridiculous system that gives most of us nothing but two-test series as all the cricket playing nations race to play each other twice every five years. Pakistan are to ask that the the programme run over six years instead of five and this comes shortly after several of the Pakistani players asked for an end to the two-test series. I am sure most of us would much rather see the return of the longer test series - where cricketing fortunes are allowed to ebb and flow far more than they are doing so well in England at the moment, so let's hope New Zealand Cricket gets on board.