5 Benefits that day-night games will bring into Test cricket
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5 Benefits that day-night games will bring into Test cricket: The International Cricket Council (ICC) finally announced a new revolutionary change in the Test cricket. The much awaited and speculated Day-night test matches with pink balls and floodlights, will finally take its roots when the New Zealand side tours the Australian side, later this year. The First day-night test in the history of cricket will be played on 27th November at the Adelaide Oval. It would be the first time when an International test match will be played under the lights in whites. The decision arrived after the Australian and New Zealand cricket board agreed to the proposal after rounds of much rumors.
There has been extensive research over the years to put this unique idea to force. The Kookaburra turf pink ball was tested by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Australia (CA), who implemented trial day-night test matches in their domestic arena. While Cricket South Africa (CSA) and West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have also shown their satisfaction with the pink ball.
On the eve of such an historic occasion, we make a list of 5 Benefits that day-night games will bring into Test cricket:
1. Advertisement of the game:
As billions of people gear up for the first ever day-night test match thriller later this year, the very innovative experiment will attract and magnetize many new fans to this game around the globe. As a matter of fact, who doesn’t desire to be a part of history. As soon as the decision was announced, it flocked the hearts of people in amazement and elation, with a prospect of a mouth-watering and exhilarating concept awaiting to be unwrapped.
As the Australian and New Zealand cricket teams take the field at Adelaide Oval, cricket is likely to welcome a dominion pool of new fans or the old cricket fans reverting back to their old cricketing ways. Even the media and broadcasters are fancying this sight. Cometh the 27th November of this year, the city of Adelaide will march towards the spectacle of history.
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