London (PTI): More and more players would dump Test cricket and succumb to the lure of Twenty20 if the Indian Premier League does not get a window in the ICC calendar, warned Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist.

Here to deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, Gilchrist asked the administrators to embrace the shortest format of the game and create a window for IPL to stop elite players from turning their back on Test cricket and taking the Twenty20 plunge.

"We've very much got to be prepared for that. I don't think it should be a shock when it does happen or if it does happen," Gilchrist was quoted as saying by TheGuardian.

"In an administrative sense we've got to get the planning and scheduling right. The players are crying out to say they want a window for the IPL.

"Ultimately I hope that cricketers don't have to make a choice. If we can acknowledge that Twenty20 is here, I hope that players won't be put in that situation," added the left-hander, who led lowly Deccan Chargers to the title triumph in IPL II in South Africa.