'He's perfectly right in his decision. Why not?

'The one area that is concerning me about where test cricket is going is that if you are going to be paying playing substantially more to play IPL as opposed to playing a test match for their country, it's a natural progression that the guys are then going to say 'I'm not interested in bowling 25 overs in a day when I can bowl four over a six-day period and earn three times as much.''

Kirsten said the 'bottom line' was that every country needed to look at test cricket and say how important it was to them.

'Team India plays six tests this year. Is that sufficient or are there other priorities? I don't know.'

'We do need to look at the economics, but if we are going to keep test cricket going like we wanted to, we need to sort out the priorities of test cricket and (whether it) stands above anything else (like) T20 cricket.'