After lots of concern by the South African players to play day night test match in Australia this year, reports have confirmed that South Africa have agreed to play day night test match in Australia. The day night test match will be held in Novemember 2016 at Adelaide.
Australian chief James Sutherland said “We remain optimistic that the Adelaide Test match will be played as a day-night match,” a Cricket Australia spokesman was quoted as saying. “After the success of last summer’s Adelaide Test, the anticipation in that market is huge.”
James Sutherland said “I had some separate conversations with colleagues from Cricket South Africa and the South African Players’ Association and I maintain my position that I continue to be optimistic about the Adelaide Test match being played as a day/night Test match,” he said in April.
The first day night test match was played between New Zealand and Australia last December. It was a huge success with lots of crowd and support. This ensured that Australian Cricket organized two night test matches in 2016-17 season.
The first day night test match will be played in November against South Africa. Australia will play another day night test match against Pakistan at Gabba, Brisbane which will take place in December. This will be the first test of the three match test series.
The day night test match against South Africa will be a big step and could change test cricket forever. Australia defeated New Zealand by 3 wickets in the day night test match. Australian players also raised concerned about the pink. Now lets see how these two day night test matches would. All the other countries are thinking about playing day night test matches.