Day-night cricket also known as floodlight cricket or pink-ball cricket.is cricket match that is played either totally, or more usually partially, under floodlights in the evening. The first regular cricket match to be played under floodlights occurred during world series cricket unsanctioned by the ICC. attracting a large crowd to see some of the world's best players compete in Australia and West Indies. In1979, when the ICC and world series cricket came to an understand first day-night one day match in Australia.
In October 2012, the international cricket council recast the playing condition for a test match, permitting a day-night test game took between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval, Adelaide on 27th November 2015, 36 years to the day from the first ICC sanctioned day-night test match.
Now in India pink ball test . India's day-night cricket test match against Bangladesh will see the pink ball being bowled for the first time in this part of the world.
Pink ball use because ball maker tried optic yellow and bright orange before they decide to pink for the day-night game. A bright colors easy to spot on the field but it could turn into a problem if the outfield is patchy, less green and browner.
Kookaburra, the ball Maker, put on the green seam to the pink ball, switched to white and then stuck to black after former Australian skipper Steve Smith suggested the seam should be made more visible. Smith leads Australia first pink ball test against new Zealand in 2015.
India has the largest grooming t20 popularity, dye the test cricket in India. Test cricket survives in India to the biggest footsteps by Indian cricket board mean BCCI.
I personally feel happy because all-day tickets are sell. This time for pink-ball good response.
Now see what happens in India in upcoming matches?
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