A Gayle blowing through the old world

19th Century sport and 21st Century sport have come face-to-face, in the first of what will surely become an increasingly frequent occurrence. West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle arrived late for his country's test match series with England, having travelled straight from the Indian Premier League 20/20 cricket series in which he had been playing. England captain, Andrew Strauss, appears to have questioned Gayle's loyalties, stating in the press that: "You don't want Test cricket to be devalued in any way, shape or form." Gayle retorted in The Guardian stating that: "I wouldn't be so sad [if Test cricket ended]". So, where now? Do we have to accept the inevitable decline and eventual demise of test match cricket? Is the emergence of 20/20 cricket really so important that it will lead to a once great tradition of test match cricket disappearing for good? More importantly, what does the Strauss/Gayle spat tell us about what is going to happen to sport in the 21st Century? Is it simply just a case of two professionals expressing their very different views? Or is it the portent of things to come? At this time in 2109, will people thus be looking back and affectionately remembering the heyday of five-day cricket test matches? Will they be questioning the relevance of 20/20 cricket? Will they be getting to grips with yet another iteration of cricket? Or could it actually be the case that most people ask: what's cricket?