Somerset legend Joel Garner returned to Taunton today and admonished West Indies captain Chris Gayle for his negative comments about Test cricket.

In the build-up to today's second Test against England at Chester-le-Street Gayle said he wouldn't be sad if the five-day game died out.

The former Windies paceman, who was opening the Joel Garner Gates at the River End of the ground, said: "It is unfortunate. I think it was out of place and in poor taste.

"I don't think that he really understands what he said or what he is doing. There will always be a place for Test cricket.

"One-day cricket is entertaining and it brings people through the gate but at the end of the day you still want to pit skills bowler against batsman and batsman against bowler.

"That is where it is at. It is four or five days of hard cricket where skills come to the fore.

"I don't worry for the future of Test cricket. It is here to stay but the moves to have a two-tier system would destroy it."

Somerset take on Warwickshire in the Friends Provident Trophy at Taunton today.