Voges excited by day-night Test

Taylor has been a vocal supporter of four-day Test cricket for more than five years, and believes it’s finally growing legs.

“At night with the new ball it swings and probably more so than it does during the day”, Hesson said. “It is all about maintaining the relevance of Test cricket, a format I was brought up on and one I continue to cherish”.

He also suggested a world test championship culminating in a final could also liven the test arena.

“When you’re out in the middle you can’t look for excuses with the ball”. Where is cricket going? “The younger generation generally want more instant gratification and I think over five days to keep them interested in the game is not so easy”, Taylor told News Corp.

“But you have to have an open mind as a player and just accept there will be challenges”.

They deserve credit for moving out of their comfort zones, and whatever else they achieve in their careers they will now always carry with them the fact they will have played in the first day-night Test that will mark, I hope, the start of a terrific new era for the game’s oldest format.

“The sceptics and critics might call it a leap in the dark but I prefer to view the decision to play day-night Test cricket – a concept set to become reality when Australia plays New Zealand in Adelaide – as thoroughly enlightened”, Abbas wrote on the ICC website.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed an approach from CA about the possibility of participating in a day-night Test next season, and will have team manager Zakir Khan on hand in Adelaide to report how the match unfolds and whether a day-night concept could even work in the United Arab Emirates, where Pakistan now stages its home matches.

Mitchell Santner dismissed both Bosisto and Tom Beaton, who attempted a wild slog on 24 after being dropped on four by Ross Taylor at first slip. He also felt an actual test championship, culminating in a final would add spice.

I know we did in those World Series Cricket days when we used a white ball for the first time and now the idea of one-day cricket without one would be unthinkable.

“(Test cricket) needs exciting games, good battles between bat and ball and results”, Taylor said.

“You don’t need attritional games of cricket that require declarations for results. That’s how we expect him to bowl, 110 percent ever time he walks on the field”, Mascarenhas said.

“With this being a little bit of an unknown because it’s a different situation – it’s at night, it’s a different ball – there’s an excitement”.