Derek Pringle says four-day Test cricket will take too much away from the game’s purest and most recognised format

The push for four-day Test matches has started. Men in grey suits with little love of cricket but plenty for the bottom line, are plotting to pare back the most hallowed form of the game in order to format it for our modern lives. Sensible you might think, except that any such change would be a compromise and, for the most uncompromising form of the game, that is simply unacceptable.
The last time Test matches were scheduled over anything less than five days was in 197...