World Test Championship to boost five-day game, says Du Plessis

CAPE TOWN: South Africa captain Faf du Plessis accepts the new World Test Championship (WTC) will include 'legitimate setting' to the five-day game and has supported the presentation of the worldwide class as a stage forward for the game. 

The title begins on Thursday when England have Australia in the main Ashes Test in Birmingham and will see the best nine five-day countries go head to head over a two-year time span, scoring focuses dependent on their prosperity and coming full circle in a last at Lord's in June 2021. 

"For the last, while we have ached to have something to play for that gives legitimate setting to Test cricket," du Plessis said in an official statement from Cricket South Africa. "A lot is on the line in light of the fact that each arrangement matters. It's reviving and the players we are anticipating this new part of Test cricket." 

Du Plessis feels the five-day gave has been given a lift by the presentation of the configuration. 

"I feel Test cricket is in a solid state," he said. "The players who play each of the three configurations will bear witness to the way that Test cricket is the most perfect organization of the game and it is as yet the main arrangement. 

"The more youthful age may appreciate the buzzing about of T20 cricket however when a Test match goes down to the last hour on the fifth day, that amusement is difficult to beat."