Stuart Clark says it's up to Australia, England and India to promote the purest form of the game.
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00:00What's important, I think, is to think about what Test Cricket means to Australia because
00:04if you compare it to what we've just seen with this one-day series, people are still
00:07pretty interested in Australia at least, and England and India are about Test Cricket.
00:11But there's a bigger story around Test Cricket in that, and I didn't realise this until recently,
00:15but the International Summer is only important to those three countries, whereas a lot of
00:21these other countries around the world, they're actually funded by their T20 tournaments.
00:27That's where they make their money to play Test Cricket, whereas Australia and India
00:30are in reverse.
00:32So I think for the greater good of the game, Australia and India and England need to really
00:37try and promote Test Cricket, and that's the biggest story to all of this.
00:42The Ashes will always exist because they're such a big rivalry, and India, yes, they want
00:46to beat Australia, but the bigger problem is what happens if India or Australia become
00:50weak and they don't want to play one another, or England becomes really weak and they don't
00:55want to play?
00:56There's no underlying current at the moment, but it could perpetuate into something that
01:00if Test Cricket doesn't remain the priority for those three countries, then Test Cricket
01:04really dies, and that's what no-one wants to see.
01:07These next two summers really set the tone for the following two summers, which are usually
01:10pretty dour if you think about what's happened in the past.