 Inside the last 13 minutes of the Sports Max on for this Monday, switching to cricket, the conversation about the future of existence of the game's longest format has been ongoing with many legends and current players contributing and now a former Weston is captain is leading his voice into or lending his voice into the debate. The Jason Holder says he's worried about test cricket's future. Being there is not enough financial support across the board. Here's what he said to Hindustan Times in the ILT 20 post-match interview. You've got the big three India, England and Australia who practical command all the revenue regarding the disbursement of ICC funds and it's difficult for smaller territories such as the Weston is to compete. We just don't have the financial resources that they do. We're struggling to even stay afloat in terms of cash flow and it's hard to develop our facilities and structures the way they're meant to be and with the little finances that we have pretty much all the money we get go straight back into covering expenses and debt. The 32-year-old says there needs to be restructuring of the format. If we could come up he says with a model where you can have a minimum wage where you can't fall below a particular threshold it would actually incentivize players to say well look this is the benefit of me or to the benefit of me playing test cricket. I think maybe cricket may go on in the football model where you have an international window and you've got the franchise window maybe that might be a model going forward but who knows. Now the talk of payment as the main reason for players opting out of international cricket was addressed by cricket Weston's chief executive officer Johnny Grave the CWI boss debunked the myth that Weston and cricketers in particular aren't paid well as a guest he was on the SkySports cricket podcast. It's very very well I think there's a perception in the world that we pay them pittance you know I think most of our top international players when you include and factor in Caribbean Premier League contracts are probably earning half a million US dollars a year so it's not like they're playing for us for free. Well this has been a topic that has been making the rounds generally because there is a genuine feeling that test cricket is at the moment in jeopardy based on its attractiveness outside of India Australia and England of course as Jason Holder referenced as the as the big three but there is a clear case here of a threat to test cricket because of the growth of T20 cricket franchise cricket globally and the sort of monetary returns available for players who get involved. Yeah I'll start by saying the fact that the comment and of course the view came from the former Weston East test captain Jason Holder speaks volumes because this is somebody who would have been captain of the Weston East team at a very very young age and the thing is Lance and Ricardo when I think about it and the way Jason Holder put it in this interview you can never and we can never sit here and blame a cricketer for deciding of course how they want to of course play their trade and how they're going to go about earning their money because as much as we love cricket and you play the sport because of the passion there comes a financial return with it and of course it's a job they're working right and I think based on history and the fact that you know and the players have spoken up about this that you know these T20 leagues or these franchise crickets cricket has been able to help them earn a lot more in a shorter period of time it is very enticing and again I'm saying you can't blame them. In this same interview Jason Holder went on to say that you know if the monies that they were playing for in test cricket was a bit more enticing or you know would have done the same thing that these T20 franchises would do then maybe they would consider so to me I'm just looking at it from the cricketers point of view but then I you all hit me with this podcast and I'm hearing Johnny Graves saying well you know it's not like if because based on what people around the world think we're paying the players like almost nothing to play so because we had an international player also Ricardo and Lance coming out and saying that you know they need to do better they need to pay the players better we lost Nicholas Puran well of course he was wrong in quoting that but you know speaking about Jason Holder as well so for me I'm just going with what we have right now T20 cricket is exciting for the players they're making a lot of money so I understand. Yeah everything is relative right so I understand what Johnny Graves is saying in terms of the fact that he feels that the players are paid well but that is relative to what they stand to earn by by playing in franchise leagues around the world and the fact is even if you are paying them well franchise leagues around the world are paying them better and that is something that Johnny Graves and any other administrator at that level cannot get around what I'll say though is this is where it would help to have a governing body that can take charge of the sport because the truth is and we've spoken about this with Fazir Muhammad at Nauseam the ICC as Faz would put it is not a real governing body because a real governing body would take charge of the sport now Jason Holder I thought came up with a very good idea it is something that I thought long time ago before Faz made me realize that the ICC is not a real governing body I thought that we would have been going to the football model in cricket where you have international windows that do not clash with what is happening in these franchise tournaments and you structure the calendar in such a way that you can have international series happening at a particular time and then you have the franchise cricket happening at particular times I know there can be potential issues with that the Australian New Zealand summer is different from the summer in the Caribbean or whatever the case might be but I think those are things you can work around but as it is now you are going to continue to have the issue especially with players from countries outside of the top three that once they produce any sort of quality the lore of the T20 franchise money is going to be so much that they will have absolutely no choice but to play the T20 franchise leagues Faz has already started sounding out about Shamar Joseph because if he continues in the way that he has started down under it is only a matter of time that he is performing and that he's gone to play a lot of T20 franchise leagues and what's in this cricket will suffer like and boards like that as well will continue to suffer whenever because they won't be able to match the financial power of the franchise leagues well thinking about financial power we have to pay some bills so let's take that break and come right back we're going to make all money we could just use your money