The game, the money, what comes next

The two-day Boxing Day Test continues to spark a wider conversation about the state of Test cricket. Corbin Middlemas and Ed Cowan begin in Melbourne, unpacking the fallout at the MCG, Matt Page facing the media, and how a Test meant to anchor the summer instead triggered public unease, with one listener summing it up starkly as “the death of Test cricket.”

The discussion then moves through the financial cost of shortened Tests and why, as Cowan puts it, “it’s not a slow slippery slope, it’s a snowball,” before turning to the Big Bash, where a potential...