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New Zealand receptive to day-night Test in India
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 27 - 04 - 2016

New Zealand Cricket says it is receptive to playing a day-night Test during its tour to India this year if certain conditions are met.
An announcement last week by an Indian official that one of the Tests on New Zealand's tour would be a day-night match took New Zealand by surprise. But a meeting between NZC Chief Executive David White and Indian officials has smoothed the way for the first day-night Test in India, likely in Mumbai.
India will trial a pink ball in domestic matches to determine how it wears and how well it can be seen in local conditions.
New Zealand played Australia in the world's first day-night Test in Adelaide last year. White said NZC believed day-night Tests would play a big part in cricket's future.
New Zealand players had similar misgivings about last year's fixture in Adelaide but were given a A$1 million ($777,000) sweetener by Cricket Australia to commit.
‘All Test nations want day-night matches'
The cricket boards of all major Test-playing nations have thrown their support behind day-night matches and nearly half intend to host a game under lights in the next 12 months, according to Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland.
Australia hosted the first day-night Test against New Zealand in Adelaide last year and will play Pakistan in another match under lights in Brisbane in December.
South Africa's players have balked at an invitation to play Australia in a day-night match in November, however, citing concerns about the specially developed pink ball and their relative inexperience playing it.
Sutherland, who met with South African officials during an International Cricket Council meeting in Dubai Sunday, said no final decision on the Adelaide Test could be expected until Proteas players returned home from the Indian Premier League tournament.
But he said day-night Tests in general had unanimous support from the top nations' boards.
"What I heard from (ICC) full member country CEO's in meeting was a very broad-ranging commitment to day-night Test cricket and indeed three or four full member countries are planning on hosting Test cricket under lights in the course of the next 12 months, which is very encouraging," Sutherland told reporters at CA's Melbourne headquarters Tuesday.
"Certainly India, Pakistan are very keen to play day-night Test cricket, I know New Zealand is also keen.
"To a person, full member countries and their CEOs stated their absolute support of test cricket being played under lights."
The first day-night Test drew huge crowds to Adelaide Oval and big television audiences, helping to offset disappointing attendances to the season-opening tests against New Zealand in Brisbane and Perth.
Test crowds have waned across the globe even as domestic Twenty20 tournaments have soared in popularity and threatened to undermine the quality of international cricket by luring top players away from their national teams.
Australia's domestic Big Bash T20 competition drew more than a million people into stadiums around the country during the last home summer, outstripping the attendance for last year's 50-over World Cup.
Cricket Australia have lowered ticket prices for Test matches against Pakistan and South Africa for series during the coming home summer in a bid to bring fans back to the red-ball game.


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