Kuldeep Yadav, Mickey Arthur Bat For Five-Day Tests

India spinner Kuldeep Yadav and Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur on Thursday voiced their support to keep Test matches a five-day affair, saying reducing it to four will amount to "messing up" with the fabric of the longest format.

Arthur, who has also coached South Africa, Australia and most recently Pakistan, joined his ICC Cricket Committee colleague Mahela Jayawardene in supporting five-day Tests. "Look, five-day Test cricket is the way to go (forward). Test cricket challenges you mentally, physically and technically and a lot of a time on the fifth day (a result comes).

We just witnessed a very good Test match (England versus South Africa) that finished on day five," Arthur said ahead of the third T20I in Pune on Friday.