Duleep Trophy

Does the pitch need to be doctored to preserve the ball?       Day-night test at Adelaide still uncertainYes the pitch needs special treatment, if you follow what happened in Adelaide, and in some experiments in Australia’s domestic cricket and in Pakistan. Before that Adelaide Test, the two captains Steve Smith and Brendon McCullum were asked for their oppinion, and their permission was needed, just to have a generous grass covering on the wicket, and the immediate areas surrounding it, in order to preserve the ball and delay it’s wearing out process. Adelaide Oval curator Damian Hough for this had left 11mm of grass at the end of the game, Australia captain Smith and the New Zealand coach Mike Hesson later claimed more grass was left than what they had expected and suggested it also played a major part in the match finishing within three days.