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Day-night Test ‘unlikely’ in 2019 Ashes – ECB
MELBOURNE, Dec 27, 2017 (BSS/AFP) – England will be unlikely to stage a
day-night Ashes Test match when Australia tour in 2019, England and Wales
Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison said on Wednesday.
Harrison said England did not need a pink-ball Test in their home Ashes
schedule, although Australia has already staged four day-night Tests in
recent years.
The two countries played the first day-night Test against each other in the
second match of the current series at Adelaide Oval earlier this month.
A further two day-night Tests — against India and Sri Lanka — are likely
to be staged in the 2018-2019 season.
“It’s to be decided, but it’s unlikely, to be honest,” Harrison told the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the fourth Ashes Test in
Melbourne.
“I think we’ve got a format that works brilliantly well for us in Ashes
cricket in the UK.
“Right time, right place, right conditions are the rules for day-night Test
cricket. I think we’ll wait and see, but it’s unlikely I would say.”
Cricket Australia counterpart James Sutherland said he was comfortable with
the ECB’s decision, if it materialised.
“We’re obviously great advocates of it, we’ve seen the success of it here
but Tom knows his conditions better,” Sutherland said.
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