First Day Night Test With Pink Boll

                                                                                                                                                                        Indian Cricket Team Play With

First day Night Teast With Pink Boll                                                                                                                                                                                             It is believed that the first match to be played under floodlights took place on 11 August 1952, between Middlesex County Cricket Club and Arsenal Football Club. The match was a benefit for Jack Young, and was not the first benefit match held between the two sides. Floodlights at Arsenal Stadium had been installed in the summer of 1951, and were first used for football in October 1951. The cricket match took place at 19:30, the lights were turned on towards the end of the first innings, in which Arsenal were batting. A public announcement was made, advising spectators (of which there were just over 7,000) to "Keep your eye on the ball, when you see it coming keep low. The batsmen will try to keep it down but they can't promise." The match was televised on the BBC, with over a million viewers tuning in to watch the spectacle. The Times was not convinced of the success of floodlights in cricket, mischievously asking: "What is to prevent non-stop Test match

es where the last wicket falls as the milkman arrives?"

It appeared that the cricketing world concurred with The Times that playing cricket under floodlights was not a viable concept, and for over twenty years Jack Young's benefit remained a one-off. However, in 1977, when Kerry Packer bought over 50 of the world's leading cricketers to play in his World Series Cricket, the concept came to the fore.^[5] After initial attendances at the matches were low, Packer moved from so called "Supertests" to one-day cricket, generally played under floodlights. Attendances of roughly 2,000 had attended the "Supertests" between Australia and the West Indies at the Australian rules football stadium, VFL Park in Melbourne in November 1977. A year later – almost to the day, 44,377 people were inside the Sydney Cricket Ground to watch a floodlit one-day match between the same sides. Opposition to World Series Cricket was large, and the matches did not have Test cricket nor first-class cricket status. In 1979 an agreement between the Australian Cricket Board and Kerry Packer brought World Series Cricket to an end.^[5] The marketing potential of floodlit cricket had been noticed though, and the first floodlit One Day International was contested in November 1979 between the official cricket teams of Australia and the West Indies.^[6]

Floodlit cricket was soon taking place not only in Australia, but also in South Africa, the West Indies and the subcontinent. In England, opposition remained firm; not only was there lingering hostility towards Packer's World Series Cricket, but the differences in climate make the application difficult. In contrast to Australia and South Africa, where twilight is minimal, and the light fades quickly, the long English evenings meant that the floodlights would only be required for the last hour or so of a match. The increased chance of rain also meant that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) was loath to spend money on permanent lights, when rain would stop play anyway.^[7]

Day/Night cricket is now commonplace in one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket. For instance, all 27 matches in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 were day/night matches,      men,                           

Men's[edit]

No.	Date	Home team	Away team	Venue	Start time (local)	Result
1	27 November–1 December 2015	Australia	New Zealand	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	14:00	Australia by 3 wickets
2	13–17 October 2016	Pakistan	West Indies	Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai	15:30	Pakistan by 56 runs
3	24–28 November 2016	Australia	South Africa	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	14:00	Australia by 7 wickets
4	15–19 December 2016	Australia	Pakistan	The Gabba, Brisbane	13:30	Australia by 39 runs
5	17–21 August 2017	England	West Indies	Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham	14:00[n 1]	England by an innings and 209 runs
6	6–10 October 2017	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai	14:00	Sri Lanka by 68 runs
7	2–6 December 2017	Australia	England	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	14:00[n 1]	Australia by 120 runs
8	26–29 December 2017	South Africa	Zimbabwe	St George's Park, Port Elizabeth	13:30	South Africa by an innings and 120 runs
9	22–26 March 2018	New Zealand	England	Eden Park, Auckland	14:00[n 1]	New Zealand by an innings and 49 runs
10	23–27 June 2018	West Indies	Sri Lanka	Kensington Oval, Bridgetown	15:00[n 1]	Sri Lanka by 4 wickets
11	24–28 January 2019	Australia	Sri Lanka	The Gabba, Brisbane	13:00	Australia by an innings and 40 runs
12	22–26 November 2019	India	Bangladesh	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	13:00
13	29 November–3 December 2019	Australia	Pakistan	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	14:00
14	12–16 December 2019	Australia	New Zealand	Perth Stadium, Perth	13:00

Women's[edit]

No.	Date	Home team	Away team	Venue	Start time (local)	Result
1	9–12 November 2017	Australia	England	North Sydney Oval, Sydney	14:30	Match Drawn

Notes

1. ^ Jump up to:^a b c d an earlier start time was used when the previous day's cricket was disrupted by rain.

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