Of the 22 Pink Ball Tests so far, Australia has participated in 12. As a cricket Australia has chosen to introduce this philosophy into domestic cricket after repeatedly embracing the updated Test format. The Sheffield Shield will be played under lights this season, the board confirmed. It has also promised that there will be at least one day-night Test per summer.
The Pink Ball Test was favored to be either at Adelaide or Gabba. Bellerive Oval, Adelaide, and Gabba are the venues for the next games. It is concerning that there will be no pink ball practise for the current Australian team before the summer. Given that most of the teams competing in the event will only play one shield match, the development is controversial.
“We are constantly looking for ways to give domestic players an even better experience and better equip them for the demands of playing cricket internationally.” Ben Oliver, the head of national teams at CA, was reported by as saying, “Playing first-class matches at Test venues is important, as is exposure to day-night conditions which have become a feature of the Australian Test summer over the past decade.”
For our upcoming batch of international cricket players, we thought it was appropriate to reinstate day-and-night Sheffield Shield matches in light of that,” he continued.
India and Australia will play a day-night test.
India’s five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy trip of Australia will begin on November 22 with the opening Test. In the series, two global heavyweights will square off in one day-night Test match at Adelaide Oval. On November 23, a day-night pink-ball match between South Australia and Western Australia will take place at the same location two weeks prior to the event.
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Yellow and orange balls were used in the first-class day-night matches that Cricket Australia experimented with in the 1990s. But whether Australia A, the PM’s XI, or Cricket Australia XI played against visiting teams, they were the only sides allowed to use the pink balls.
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