India's amazing win proves Tests are thriving

An Eden Gardens thriller is the latest in a series of epic Tests that has had everyone enthralled – except for the administrators, writes Dileep Premachandran on his Guardian blog.

Gripping matches like this deserve the biggest stage and the unbelievable atmosphere at what is Indian cricket's theatre of dreams shamed the board officials who hadn't scheduled a Test here since December 2007 for a host of petty reasons. No one quibbles with one-day cricket and T20 being played in every corner of this antique land, but if Test cricket is to remain in rude health, Eden Gardens and Chepauk must get at least one Test a year. Playing in front of empty stands at Mohali and Nagpur merely mocks a great tradition. As a friend wrote to me: "Can you imagine England picking Grace Road above Lord's, or the Aussies Hobart over the MCG/SCG?"

In the Wisden Cricketer, editor John Stern is left wanting more after that Kolkata classic.

A two-Test series is neither here nor there. This rubber is just warming up but now it’s over. India and South Africa were playing for the Jaypee Infratech Trophy - you what? No they weren’t. They were playing for the glory. Was Harbhajan thinking Jaypee Infratech when he did his Cristiano Ronaldo bit on the boundary? It was all about the glory. More than that. There was the status of No.1 side in the world.