Cricket Australia is looking forward to the fact that India will agree to play a day-night test match in Adelaide in 2018, chief executive James Sutherland said on Sunday.
Earlier, India has been unwilling to play Test cricket under lights and are the only major cricketing nation yet to participate in a pink-ball cricket. Virat Kohli and his men will be playing four-match Test series against Australia late in 2018, with Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Adelaide expected to be the hosting the games.
Adelaide is currently hosting a day-night Test for the third year in a row with Australia playing England in front of record crowds for cricket at the ground.
Talking about the chances of India playing a pink-ball Test, Sutherland said, “I would anticipate there’s not going to be too much problem there. As we’ve discussed at ICC (International Cricket Council) level, it’s very much in the hands of the home country to make judgments on what they think is best. Certainly, it’s pretty well telegraphed that from our perspective we’d be playing at least one day-night test match every summer.”
He further elaborated, “Certainly India, we would expect to draw a bigger crowd. It’s not all about that, it’s also about how it fits, there’s considerations like weather in different parts of the country at different times of the year. They’re all the things we need to balance and make a call on over the course of the next few weeks before announcing that final schedule.”