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<blockquote data-quote="Northern_Brewer" data-source="post: 1100791" data-attributes="member: 24211">That's OK, it's complicated. Traditionally international cricket was played over 5 days (or more!) between the big countries of the British Empire in what were known as Test matches,&nbsp; but in the 1970s various formats were developed that took one day and so were more audience/TV friendly, and in the 00s an even shorter form called T20 was introduced which takes 3-4 hours. Almost all the money is in the shorter forms of the game, particular T20, and they've been using T20 as the way to spread cricket to new geographies but the prestige is more in Test matches, even though they're only really popular in a handful of countries. So there's only 10 Test-playing countries, 20 approved one-day countries, and 91 T20 countries. NL has actually got a long history in cricket, and historically was one of the strongest of the non-Test countries, and also eg played in the English domestic one-day competitions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Northern_Brewer, post: 1100791, member: 24211"] That's OK, it's complicated. Traditionally international cricket was played over 5 days (or more!) between the big countries of the British Empire in what were known as Test matches, but in the 1970s various formats were developed that took one day and so were more audience/TV friendly, and in the 00s an even shorter form called T20 was introduced which takes 3-4 hours. Almost all the money is in the shorter forms of the game, particular T20, and they've been using T20 as the way to spread cricket to new geographies but the prestige is more in Test matches, even though they're only really popular in a handful of countries. So there's only 10 Test-playing countries, 20 approved one-day countries, and 91 T20 countries. NL has actually got a long history in cricket, and historically was one of the strongest of the non-Test countries, and also eg played in the English domestic one-day competitions. [/QUOTE]

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