Brian Lara: Scrap draws from Test cricket

"One of the complaints by an American is, 'how can you play a game for five days and it ends up in a draw?'," Lara told the BBC. "I would like to maybe see results in every single Test match. I know 70 per cent of the time the game takes its natural course and you get a result, (but) maybe find a way where you structure the game … you have 450 overs in five days, come up with some formula that can bring a win at the end of it."

Lara is Test cricket's only quadruple centurion and retired from international cricket when T20 was still in its nascent stages.

"I'm pro T20 because I played in a period where Test cricket was waning, the crowds were a bit smaller, and I grew up in the '70s and '80s lining up at 5am to watch a Test match in a packed house," Lara said.

"T20 has brought a new spectator in. I'm happy (with it) – it's three hours, well put together, and it's a game that has to grow in other countries, in America, in big countries … I believe (it's) a product we can take around the place. 

"So I'm a big fan, but at the end of the day, my career was based around Test cricket and I'm very, very happy it was that way."