Posted this in another thread and realized it's slightly off-topic so,
Regarding the supposed death of Test Cricket, fast bowling, result-oriented cricket and everything even minutely wrong with cricket atm, I think what we, as fans, are doing is, to use the analogy of cricket as a patient, diagnosing throat cancer where there is a minor throat infection.
IMHO, Test cricket is just suffering from a minor hiccup and will recover very soon. All the proposed changes like, bringing in over 9000 countries, starting a Test knockout championship, suggesting, rather ridiculously I must add, that a certain cricket board must pay for aforementioned activities is like treating the hypothetical common cold with radiation therapy.
To further add to this, most people here have grown up during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s where there were an insane harvest of fast bowlers where we were pampered for choice. To compare to more 'normal' decades.. Lillee, Willis and Roberts in the 70s, Tureman, Pollock(of Peter), Davidson in the 60s and wait, McGrath,Pollock(of Shaun), Steyn, Asif and Bond in the 00s!
I'm all for positive changes in test cricket. By all means, Get the D/N concept into test cricket, Maybe even get coloured jerseys/jerseys with player names if the common man sees it fit. However, overly radical changes only serve to ironically 'kill' the test cricket we all have grown to admire and love, IMHO.
P.S.:-I only have to wonder if say, ten or twenty years, down the lane, people will worry about the death of batsman-ship because they were pampered by so many classy batsmen in this era and going back to an era where only 2-3 batsmen in the world average over 50.