Veteran paceman Stuart Clark is confident there will never come a day when the game's shortest form is held in higher regard than the longest.
Clark, who says he enjoys the Twenty20 concept and that it deserves place on the cricketing calender, admits the growing popularity of the format is an issue that must be delicately managed.
But the 33-year-old has faith that the game's major stakeholders will put tradition ahead of financial gain, so as to ensure Test cricket lives on.
"I hope it doesn't (take over)," Clarke, who is part of New South Wales' squad to contest the lucrative Champions League tournament in India next month, said of the Twenty20 phenomenon.
"I think the administrators, and I know the administrators, are doing everything in their power to not let it take over."
"But with the groundswell of people that are watching and the people that are watching it, it just needs to be managed properly."
But while confident Test cricket will survive, Clark predicted tumultuous days ahead as players are forced to declare their allegiance.
"I think there will be a period where there'll be a lot of conjecture over what guys want to do," he said.
"It's almost - I don't want to say good versus evil - but the game is more important as far as I'm concerned than just a dollar, because look, to play cricket for Australian can be very lucrative as well."
Clark added that the issue of free-agency cannot be ignored after champion all-rounder Andrew Flintoff turned down an England contract, preferring to play in various Twenty20 tournaments around the world.
"I think it's something we have to live with and understand but I hope the players realise that they owe it to the game that Test cricket's still the pinnacle," Clark said.
"The IPL might be the glitz and the money and everything like that but for me, and I hope this is for the other players, that they never forget that Test cricket's what the game's about."
Australia's brightest prospect Phil Hughes professed his love for all three forms of the game but is in no doubt as to which form of the game he cherishes most.
"I love all three forms of the game but the pinnacle in my eyes is for sure Test cricket," Hughes said.
"I got a taste of that and it was great ... but in saying that I do love playing the three forms of the game."
However, when asked if his peers share the same view, the 20-year-old confirmed Test cricket is no longer No.1 in the eyes of every rising star.
"Yes and no," he said. "As I said the pinnacle for me is Test cricket but in saying that everyone's different too."
"Everyone's got their different ways of going about things and views, but the majority of people the pinnacle for them is Test cricket."
"You get around and talk to the youngsters around the squad and for sure (the dream is) to play Test cricket, but in saying that there's a few people that are different as well."