O’Keefe: Adelaide flawless for day-night Test match – O’Keefe

Captaining NSW in this season’s day-night Sheffield Shield round, Smith declared at 9-262 on day one.

138 years have whisked away in a canter since Alfred Shaw of England belted down the first ever delivery to Charles Bannerman of Australia in the first ever Test Match in 1877. But although it has taken a few time to get here, as far as I am concerned it is a common sense decision. “A lot of Test cricket and a lot of bilateral series in general have no context”. If it fails, then John Stephenson, the MCC’s head of cricket, fears the Test game may not only have squandered an opportunity but also put its future on the line.

As to who the pink ball would help more, faster or spin bowlers, the jury is out.

That leaves us with Hobart and Adelaide and it’s a no-brainer that Adelaide is the eventual venue for the inaugural Day-Night Test Match. To even hint at that is mischievous and misleading. It is probably getting to be that time, but to be honest I am just trying to play each game and enjoy it like I have said before. All the answers to the queries, questions and doubts will be unlocked after the conclusion of the 3rd Test match of the Trans-Tasman series.

Similarly, there would be no point in switching matches that take place during traditional holiday periods from day to day-night.

However they are not as confident that Trent Boult will overcome back soreness to be fit to face Australia in that match.

According to the fifty one-yr-previous former opener, a four-day Test cricket would drive extra individuals into stadiums as it might end on the Sunday.

Hesson added that the Adelaide Oval pitch would shape the Test, especially when it came to the colour of the ball.

With the pink ball, due to its characteristics, it swung a lot as well so I think that will be prevalent the whole game and it also spun from ball one.

It might not be ideal but what in life is? “If he s able to get through that he ll be considered for the Test”. And it is a game of cricket we are talking about here, not world peace.

“To be able to play at home is something I always wanted to do”. But as Steve Waugh and Ryan Harris, amongst others, have said recently, players are resourceful and they will adapt.

Sutherland – who has long made the pink ball concept a priority – told Kerry O’Keeffe on his 2GB radio show on Saturday that Test cricket needs to make itself more accessible.

O’Keefe is a self-described pink-ball specialist having taken 18 wickets at an average of 18.22 in three day-night matches for NSW during the past three years, including match figures of 2-76 last month.

And while the skeptics I have mentioned may like to label those players as guinea pigs, I prefer to see all those involved as trailblazers.