If your profession is to play cricket and make money then it is the best job you can do, it is the case with any sports, you need to have the skill set and if the body holds together then you can make a ton lot of money than any other profession, T20 leagues are a good thing as more people are able to play cricket now than the small amount of people who used to play international and domestic cricket and the pay scale is good too, who would reject those offers, to play test cricket you need to have good fitness and if playing in T20 earns them better benefit then who is to be blamed.

It is not about less work. Even for a T20 match that lasts 3 hours, the players need to train very hard. And the mental pressure can be much more than the case with test matches, which are played in a comparatively relaxed atmosphere. The most important fact is that T20 is the future of cricket. Test cricket will never get popular outside countries such as England and Australia, where people go and watch test matches on weekends to relax with their family and kids. Even in countries such as India, T20 has outstripped test matches in popularity.

The second factor is money. T20 leagues make a lot of money and the player salaries have increased manifold ever since the franchise leagues came in to existence. They will never get these sort of salaries from the ODI/Test matches. There are players out there who play in 4-5 different T20 leagues every year. I am not even talking about cricket heavyweights such as Chris Gayle or David Warner. I am talking about the less popular players such as Sandeep Lamichhane, Rashid Khan and Ryan ten Doeschate. Without the T20 leagues, these players will never get the exposure and financials that they deserve.

There is a third factor, which everyone tend to ignore. Test players are more prone to injuries. Bowlers need to put down 20 or 30 overs a day, which makes them vulnerable to exhaustion and injury. The same goes for batsmen as well, as in cases they need to bat for as much as 90 overs in a single day.

I must disagree with you here. There are 3 different types of Cricketers basically:

- T-20
- ODI
- Test

Some are great in a particular format while they are bad in others. Some are alright in all formats, but are not experts in either version. This is how you are supposed to judge any cricket player overall.

Example : Chris Gayle(Amazing T-20 player), Cheteshwar Pujara(Amazing Test player), Virat Kohli(Amazing ODI player) etc

This statement might be of any value 10 years ago where we used to say that real cricket is the test cricket. These days this is not the case and there are many T20 players emerging players which are good in T20 and ODI but could not play the slowest format of the cricket i.e Test cricket. Also test cricket is very limited these days and only few matches are played in test match format.

I don't agree with the last part of your post. It is not right to say that only a few matches are played in the test format. If you take the case of all the major teams (India, Australia, South Africa, England.etc), the total number of days spent on playing test cricket in any given year is more than the total number of days spent on playing either T20 or ODI.

Yes, there is huge difference between test matches and T20, ODI, because all these we need to have lot of patience but when it comes to test matches we need to have more patience, within hours the match will turn to the opposition side. Test matches are a completely different scenario because only fitness will people play all these 5 days.

True, but Kohli was not exactly in the best form of his life and Shreyas was not a part of the squad. Instead, the BCCI was focus on selecting 3-Dimensional players like Vijay Shankar. They made some bad calls here.

Also, I don't understand why they keep giving Pant so many chances currently while KL Rahul needs to be given more chances. They need better selectors clearly.

Yes, they missed it. There is strong Play from the entire players of India in this match. Last match it was like a game of Kohli, this match has got the combined effort of all the players. From the opening there was good play and through out the series rain was a big drawback. ODI itself a big deal to get a result out of rain. Further test matches gonna start within days.

The gap between the big 3 and the rest of the cricketing world is widening, especially after the decline of South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The only good news is the good form being shown by New Zealand. May be in near future, the big 3 will become big 4. For the other teams, the situation doesn't look very encouraging.