COMMENTS NO: YEAR/2017/1185

“ROYAL SPORTS MINISTER: 'Your Highness ! We have 
planned to start a T-200 Test Cricket tournament from 
this year. There will be 8 teams divided into two groups 
with 4 teams in each group. The Test match will be of 
5 days as usual. But, each team cannot bat more than 
200 overs in each of the innings. The bowling team 
will get 1 bonus point for bowling out the batting side 
within 100 overs in any innings. The batting team will get 
1 bonus point for batting more than 150 overs in any innings. 
The team that forces the opponent team to go for 
follow-on will get 2 bonus points. Maximum 3 bouncers 
are allowed in an over. For winning the match, the 
winning team will get 3 points. If there is no result in 
the match, then both the teams will get 1 points each. If the 
total points including the bonus points are same for both 
the teams, then the team having a better net run rate 
will be declared as the winner of the Test match.'

KING: 'So, in every T-200 Test Cricket match, there will 
be a winner. Good idea ! Start the tournament. Let us see 
whether this experiment on Test Cricket makes it more 
popular and interesting or not.'”- Arindam Sain