ICC chair questions place of Women’s Tests in cricket calendar

LONDON: International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Greg Barclay would like to see women´s Test matches played over five days but has questioned whether the long format will form part of the future "landscape" of the female game.

The five women´s Tests held in the past five years, all played over four days, have ended in draws.

England women´s captain Heather Knight has called for five-day Tests, as is the case in men´s international red-ball cricket, to allow more time for a positive result.

"Most people would say five days are required," Barclay told BBC Radio´s Test Match Special on Friday in an interview broadcast during the ongoing first men´s Test between England and New Zealand at Lord´s.