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In the pink? Cricket bosses and players still not seeing benefit of day-night Tests | Simon Burnton

The Ashes pink-ball Test at the Gabba may once again leave many in the sport wondering of the format has a future In October 2012 the International Cricket Council formally green-lit the idea of day-night Tests, offering a new, potentially lucrative spin on the oldest format. “This is all about new audiences and doing all we could to make the game more accessible at every level,” said the ECB’s then chief executive, Tom Harrison, when he announced England’s first pink-ball game a few years later. James Sutherland, Cricket Australia’s chief executive, welcomed the change from a status quo in which “Test cricket is played at times when most people are at work or school. We limit ourselves by staging cricket’s premium format at times when fans often cannot watch.” But since the day that decision was made just 24 of 554 Tests have been day-night games. Outside Australia, their most enthusiastic adopters, there have only been 11, out of a possible 486. Instead of turning on a new demographic to the joys of Test cricket, the idea has been a turn-off: England have only staged one, in 2017; South Africa’s only attempt came a few months later; West Indies, Pakistan and New Zealand have held two each and India three. Meanwhile this week’s second Test at the Gabba will be Australia’s 14th. Continue reading...

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