What? Test match cricket is not about high scores. Its about accessing the situation. Let me give you a example. SA vs Eng some ions ago. England had to survive the last day for a draw which Atherton and Jack Russell were the heroes in saving it. One of Athertons best innings yet its one of the slowest send boring centuries ever. But Atherton thought sbout the team by batting the day out when there was no chance of winning and saved the match. Scoring a 150 from 150 balls and get out exposes lesser batsman and you lose the match.Haha! Self perpetuating myth regarding KP that. He is actually the best among current english batters scoring consistently high scores and not giving away wicket cheaply. Just that people remember KP's failure better because of all the brouhaha surrounding him but statistically that is not true.
Shahid Afridi the same. Still couple of runs behind Englands total he came in and 2nd ball out after slogging the first for 4. Instead of hanging in there ticking time over they try and smash record fast cameo's when the amount of runs is less of importance than the time spent at the crease. Brian Lara saved the Windies like that numerous times by occupying the crease long amounts of times. After all that's what test match batting is mostly about.
One dayers its different as a quick cameo can win you through game where time is much less shorter.