Australia legend Steve Waugh is strongly against the ‘two-tier’ Test system, which is reportedly being pushed by Cricket Australia (CA) at the International Cricket Council (ICC) meetings. He believes it’ll weaken the teams that’ll be in the lower tier because they won’t have the competition that makes them better. This two-tier system wants the ICC to divide the Test nations into two groups, with the first being India, England and Australia, so they can play more cricket among themselves. It envisages a promotion and relegation system where the lower-tier teams could get into the top-tier for their performances. “I don’t like two-tier, it weakens whoever’s in the second tier, not playing in strong sides, they’re not going to be able to improve and get better,” Waugh told news agency PTI. “The top sides will keep getting better and stronger and it’ll just separate world cricket into teams that are top level and other teams that are okay and we want to develop the other teams right now. Test cricket is pretty strong actually, it’s probably seven or eight sides capable of beating each other and that hasn’t been the case for few years so I actually think Test cricket is going okay right now,” he added. Currently, the World Test Championship (WTC) is being played in the league format, where the two teams with the most points after two years of contests play a one-off final. Australia and South Africa will meet at Lord’s for the 2023-25 edition’s final on June 11. “There’s always complaints,” Waugh said about issues with the format. “In Champions Trophy, India played a neutral ground in Dubai and people complained about that You have to do what you can to make things happen. It’s not a perfect situation. Some countries play a lot of Test matches, some don’t play many. South Africa probably didn’t play as many as other countries. They were pretty successful in what they did. I believe the two best Test-playing countries are lining up in the final,” he added.