Adelaide Oval to Host the first ever Day-Night test from November 27th, 2015

Adelaide Oval to Host the first ever Day-Night test from November 27th, 2015: A lot has been in talked for the prospects for day night test matches and as a matter of fact, it is quite much final now. Adelaide will be hosting the first ever day night test match which will be played between Australia and New Zealand from the 27^th of November, 2015.

Cricket Australia has recently released its fixtures for the Australian Cricket team. Adelaide Oval will be hosting the third of the three match Chappell-Hadlee test series and it is going to be played under the lights with the pink cricket ball.

This was released under the headlines of the six test summer. The three test series against New Zealand will be followed by a three match test series against West Indies.

The chief executive of Cricket Australia, James Sutherland said that day night test matches put the fans as the primary focus, with more spectators being able to watch the match by attending or on television.

Sutherland also said, “One of the global challenges with Test cricket is that most of the matches outside holiday periods are played on week days, in the middle of the day when people are at work and kids are at school. By shifting the playing times each day’s play can go into the evening and allow people to come in after work or after school to attend the last few hours of play, but also when they get home in other parts of the world or other parts of the country, they can watch the game on TV.”

There are a number of things to be finalised and they are under consideration. An instance of them being the start time for the day’s play in the test match. It is expected that the day-night test would start its proceedings from 2.30PM and will conclude at around 9.30PM as per Adelaide timings.

On a similar note, the long 40-minutes break, referred to as the ‘lunch’ break would now take place between the second and the third sessions and would likely be deemed as ‘dinner’. The 20-minute break for the tea would remain same but would take place between the first and the second session of the day-night tests.

This is indeed a revolutionary step taken for the entire game of cricket. The chief executive of New Zealand Cricket said it as “another step forward in the evolution of the game”.