Well, I well remember fellow commentator Scott Styris coming into the comm box a few years back and saying, ‘T20 is the future, Test Cricket is dying and might not be around for a whole lot longer’.
Scotty is prone to the odd prophecy, but this one may not be that far away because it's starting to become a reality at quite an alarming rate for the purists.
It is, and always will be, the purest form of the game Test cricket, but it's in danger of losing it’s quality because the quality is pursuing faster, richer options.
It’s like the old Pantene shampoo ad - it won't happen overnight, but it will happen.
Trent Boult isn't the first and certainly won't be the last to choose the less committed way to make a big buck.
It's not totally unlike LIV Golf, actually, but it is in that all these T20 domestic leagues, which are collectively choking the cricketing calendar are at this point sanctioned. They’re sanctioned by the powers that be; of course, the LIV Golf is not.
The IPL will always be ‘Big Daddy’, it has to be that way because it belongs to India but this New Emirates version - stuck right in the middle of the Southern Hemisphere summer - will have plenty of teeth because the money won't run out.
To be honest, the top lads can play 10 weeks' cricket in two leagues for a conservative two million USD, be away from home for three months max - hardly enough time for the launch to get out of hand. I mean, why wouldn't you?
Only because you rate Test cricket - like Jimmy Anderson - as the highest honour, (who is) remarkably about to run in with the new ball for his 173rd Test match against South Africa.
But are the three lions, the baggy green, the black cap going to hold that status for the years ahead?
New Zealand is under threat, and as current World Test Champions I might add, not so much because we won't field a team and a useful one at that, it's more because the bigger nations won't find the windows to play us.
The gaps are closing and the warning signs are there. In 10 years' time what will Test cricket look like on a world scale? The prophets are forecasting doom.