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Test cricket is an anomaly in the modern world; after 30 hours of scheduled play you can still end with a draw. Of late, though, it has been under immense pressure to cut some flab, especially from the broadcasters who practically finance the game.The proposal is to bring it down to four days, allowing them to schedule it to start on Thursday and finish on the weekend. The MCC world cricket committee recognised the pressure on the format in its meeting in Mumbai, but it finished split down the middle when it came to removing a day from Tests.Two of the cricketers on the committee, Ricky Ponting and Ramiz Raja, were personally in favour of keeping the format as it is but they recognised the need for changes. We have had two days of meetings, and to be fair we spent more time as a committee debating this four-day comparison to five-day Test cricket, Ponting said.It is pretty fair to say that the committee was probably split right down the middle as far as understanding and identifying that the Test game does need some changes. Things have to change to try and make the Test game more attractive but also we are trying to protect the fabric of Test match cricket.Personally, I am very much in favour of five-day Test cricket and we only have to look back at the last 12-18 months and see how many great five-day Test matches there have been. But other guys in the committee would also like to see a trial of four-day Test cricket.Raja acknowledged he saw the benefits of a shorter Test format, but still favoured the existing model. It is a difficult debating point, he said. One big advantage with a four-day Test match is that it improves the pace of Test cricket, and there will be exciting declarations and something out of the ordinary, which may give new lease of life to Test cricket.But my biggest grief was that the lesser teams would get away with murder, they would be able to draw a game and in Test matches the best teams should win all the time, so that limited that possibility. Four-day cricket is exciting, it gives ample opportunity to broadcasters to get the peak days…end it on Saturday or Sunday, which could be great watching.But I was also in favour of five-day cricket because it has a lot of history, it is traditional and we should not tamper with a format, which has been delivering the goods. In the last year and a half, we have seen some exciting cricket.Ponting touched upon possible complications that might arise from the pressure on the pitches to deliver outright results.If we ever go to a stage where four-day Test was the way we are going, a lot of it will be down to how the wickets are prepared, he said. The one thing we dont want is more draws. No one wants to see more drawn games. We want to see entertaining Test matches be it over four or five days.Thats what we have seen of late. Very aggressive cricket when needed, very defensive when needed as well. One of the pros for four-day Tests is every Test potentially starting on Thursday and finishing on Sunday. Maybe it frees up a few more days in the international schedule. But I am all for keeping it as it is. Its the way I learned playing the game. Its the game we all enjoy playing over five days.In its press release, the MCC cricket committee outlined what they considered the pros and cons of the four-day Test debateProsClear scheduling for all stakeholders (TV, fans, players), with every Test played Thursday to Sunday on a weekly cycle.Greater crowds likely in grounds and more viewers on television for the last two days of the matches.Given that the Boards want guaranteed cricket on both days of a weekend, ideally towards the end of the game, this model makes scheduling easier and will allow tours to be shorter.Shorter tours would mean that less cricket would need to take place out of each countrys regular season, meaning fewer rain interruptions.Players would have to speed up the over rates, with suspensions for captains not meeting the required targets (though DRS does slow things down). Spinners might need to be bowled more.Play would be likely to change to a more attacking style, which might help to arrest the dwindling crowds in many countries.Clearer scheduling for grounds in relation to staffing and operational costs, with most Tests running the full four days.Broadcasters need only to pay for four days match costs, rather than five, plus their schedules are more freed up for more lucrative limited overs cricket.Evidence suggests that there would be no loss of revenue from broadcasters or sponsors if the Tests were shortened.ConsLikelihood of more drawn matches, especially those that are rain-affected, given that some matches are played in the rainy season.The dynamic of Tests would change and the statistics would be less comparable with history, particularly if limits were placed on the duration of the teams first innings, which has been mooted.There could be more doctored pitches to get results within four days, particularly if allied to increased context.It should not need a shift to four-day Tests to speed up the over rates. 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ELMONT, N.Y. -- The posting of the incorrect fourth-place finisher in Fridays eighth race at Belmont Park cost the New York Racing Association more than $50,000 as it wound up paying out on multiple superfecta combinations, track officials confirmed Saturday.The error also prompted the New York State Gaming Commission and NYRA to conduct investigations into how the error occurred and what, if any, changes could be made to ensure the error doesnt happen again.The error occurred when placing judges Sonny Taylor and Michael Wilson put up No. 3 Paige as the fourth-place finisher in the race when in fact she had finished fifth, a nose behind the actual fourth-place finisher, No. 2 Coming Attraction. The race was won by No. 1 Akatea, and there was a dead heat for second between No. 4 Now Power and No. 5 Jcs Shooting Star. Thus, the two official superfecta results were 1-4-5-3, which returned $138, and 1-5-4-3, which returned $138.40.It wasnt until 15 minutes after the race was declared official that Jockey Club steward Jimmy Edwards noticed that the Trakus order of finish posted on the infield board showed that Coming Attraction had finished fourth. Edwards said he called the placing judges and asked them about the discrepancy. The stewards met with the two placing judges, who admitted they made a mistake, Edwards said.Before the ninth race was run, track announcer Larry Collmus announced that there would be additional payouts on the actual superfecta combinations of 1-5-4-2 and 1-4-5-2. At around 8:30 p.m. Eastern, those payouts were calculated. The 1-5-4-2 superfecta returned $117, and the 1-4-5-2 combination returned $114.The superfecta pool was $68,248. After the 24 percent takeout, the amount paid out was $51,717.39. That is the figure NYRA matched to make the proper payouts.We tried to do the right thing and make everyboddy whole, said Martin Panza, NYRAs senior vice president of racing operations.dddddddddddd Its human error.The interest of the public was protected, Edwards said. Certainly, we had to cover this, and thats what we did.Edwards is the regular steward representing The Jockey Club. The other two stewards in the stand Friday were substitutes. Carmine Donofrio, who retired as the state steward a few years ago, was subbing for current state steward Steve Lewandowski. Hugh Gallagher, NYRAs safety steward, was subbing for regular steward Braulio Baeza Jr.According to Edwards, it is the responsibility of the placing judges to determine the correct order of finish in a race and to post the results. The stewards then make the race official and instruct the placing judges to push the button that reflects the official order of finish.Panza said he would wait until the results of the investigation are known before deciding whether to make any changes to that protocol.Were doing an investigation; well look at it, and well act accordingly, Panza said.Until April 2015, there were three placing/patrol judges at NYRA tracks. Since then, there have only been two. Panza said that with the installation of Trakus, a computerized system that posts the running order during the race, two placing/patrol judges seems sufficient.In September 2009, a similar situation occurred, with the wrong fourth-place finisher being posted in a race at Belmont. That error was noticed within three payments, and NYRA stopped paying out on the incorrect, albeit official, order of finish. The three placing judges at that time - Taylor, Stephen Foster and Ralph Theroux - were all suspended for one week.-- additional reporting by Jim Dunleavy ' ' '