Trent Boult doubtful for day-night Test in Adelaide

“I think that’s a result wicket out there without a doubt”, O’Keefe said.

However, offered the choices of whether he had major concerns over Boult’s fitness or was pretty confident the world’s No 6 ranked bowler would be ready for Adelaide, Hesson steered a middle course.

Will the pink ball be seen and hold up to the punishment of an global test cricket battering? Hesson said bowling on hard pitches in back-to-back Tests in the Australia series had not helped Boult. I don’t thin anyone has got the answer to that unless you produce a world Tes championship and an ODI system where every ODI counts toward qualifying for a World Cup.

“We’ve seen in the past, the last two games that we have played out there, that it offers the seamers a fair bit but it also offers the spinners a little bit off the straight as well off the good part of the wicket”, O’Keefe said.

“I’ve mentioned this at ICC level and it’s something we need to have a serious look at … and I think we’re starting to get a few ideas together now”.

“As someone said to me years ago, why are we surprised when people go to one-day cricket and T20 cricket more than they do a Test match, when we put all the one-dayers and T20s on in school holidays and at night, and we put Test matches on during the week outside of school holidays”, Taylor told News Corp. Ross Taylor deliberately came to the crease during this period, with Tom Latham and B.J. Watling returning to the crease.

Black Caps coach Mike Hesson is remaining cautiously optimistic about Bay of Plenty bowler Trent Boult’s chances of playing in the third and final test against Australia on Friday.

“Rather than [focusing on] the first hour of the day when it might move it might do it at the end of the day.

If there’s one thing that everyone agrees on, it’s that the pink ball in test cricket is a big unknown”.

New Zealand inflicted a late collapse of 5-21 with the second new ball, which swung considerably more than the first. “It’s just slightly different”. He is being carefully managed due to what his coach described as a “disc irritation” similar to what Tim Southee suffered – and overcame – after the first Test in Brisbane.

“I guess when you come back from a back injury there’s an element of confidence and also being able to know when you can push through and when you can’t”, Hesson said. “He’s going to have to bowl flat out two days out from a Test match, if he’s able to get through that then he’ll be considered for the Test”, Hesson said.

Cricket Australia (CA) introduced that gamers from Australia and New Zealand in addition to from the three Sheffield Shield matches to be performed during the time will put on black armbands during the matches as a mark of respect for Hughes.