Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Greenberg has opened the door to staging an England-Australia Test match on Indian soil, describing the subcontinent as a market with genuine untapped potential. Speaking publicly on the idea, Greenberg said there are opportunities in India to put more content into certain areas — a carefully worded signal that the game's administrators are thinking well beyond traditional home-and-away structures.

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It is a bold concept. An Ashes Test played in front of an Indian crowd would be a commercial spectacle unlike anything the format has produced before, and the appetite for top-tier cricket in India needs no introduction. Whether the purists warm to the idea is another matter entirely, but Greenberg's willingness to say it out loud suggests this is more than idle thinking at CA headquarters.

For cricket as a global product, the logic is straightforward — take marquee content to the largest audience on the planet. The harder questions around scheduling, host rights and what it means for the traditional Ashes structure will take considerably longer to answer. Keep an eye on how the ICC and the England and Wales Cricket Board respond as this conversation develops.