SYDNEY - Australia have been forced to scrap a day-night Test and will hold the game in normal hours instead after India refused to play, cricket officials said Tuesday. Cricket Australia had pencilled in the December 6-10 Test in Adelaide as a pink-ball match but India baulked at playing under floodlights. CA believes day-night Test cricket is a more television-friendly format and perhaps the only way to save the five-day version of the game following the rise of the quickfire Twenty20 format. Sutherland said Australia would still play a day-night Test against Sri Lanka in Brisbane in January. "We are committed to hosting at least one day-night Test each home summer as part of our continued focus to grow Test cricket," he said.

Source: Bangkok Post May 08, 2018 06:11 UTC