Two-division Test cricket should be considered by the game’s decision-makers, but not if the aim is simply to have Australia, England and India playing each other even more often than they already do.

That’s the verdict of World Cricketers’ Association boss Tom Moffat following this masthead’s revelation of discussions at the top of the game about splitting Test cricket in two.

A looming meeting between Cricket Australia chair Mike Baird, his England counterpart Richard Thompson, and new International Cricket Council chair (and ex-BCCI chief) Jay Shah has two-tier Tests on the agenda, following record crowds and broadcast audiences for the Border-Gavaskar series.

Based on average daily crowds, there is an argument for the series being the most successful ever staged in Australia. Over 18 full days of cricket, the average attendance was higher than 45,000, as against the average of 36,400 who turned out for the 26 days of the 1936-37 Ashes.