Dhaka, Aug. 14 -- Australia cricket chief Todd Greenberg on Wednesday said a slimmer Test calendar could benefit smaller nations because the five-day game was better "where it means something".

Marking 100 days until the home Ashes series against England begins in Perth, Cricket Australia CEO Greenberg suggested quality not quantity was important in keeping the red-ball game viable."We're trying to send countries bankrupt if we force them to try to play Test cricket," he told reporters.

"We need to make sure we invest in the right spaces to play Test cricket where it means something.

"That's why the Ashes will be as enormous and as profitable as it is - because it means something."

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