Introduction

There is a debate going on about whether the match has been forfeited or not. I think we need to put that to one side, basically, and just say the game was abandoned. And of course, there is an o possibility they might play it again. There's talk of playing it next summer, when india are here for a whiteball series. They'd have to rejig that. So there is ha possibility that the fifth test will be played again, or at least the old trafford test will be Played again. Would it be, would that result of that game be tacked on to this series? Who knows. Is it just a test match for money essentially