Dale Steyn wants taste of pink ball

Apr 20, 2016 at 2:10 PM

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Dale Steyn wants taste of pink ball

South African pacer Dale Steyn hopes that he would love to play in a daylight test match before his career is over. Cricket Australia today announced 2016-17 international schedule where South Africa play three Commonwealth Bank tests against Australia in November.

Steyn wants a taste of pink ball in test cricket. “I don’t want to go through my whole career without playing a day-night game. How cool are they? I thought it looked awesome when New Zealand and Australia played one. It looked entertaining, there was a big crowd. I don’t want to go through my whole career without playing a day-night game,” Steyn said.

However, Cricket South Africa have yet to agree to a day-night Test and the South African Players’ Association have expressed concern over the “disadvantage” their players might face having never played with a pink ball under floodlights at any level.

“The difficult part of it comes in if it’s one-all and we go into a decider and we play a Test match we’ve never really played before, we’ve never used the pink ball before,” Steyn said.

Last year’s inaugural twilight Test at the Adelaide Oval was an unqualified success, pulling in records crowds, huge television viewership and delivering the most pulsating Test of the summer.

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