Australia consider day-night Tests
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
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Cricket Australia is looking at trialling day-night Tests within the next three years so more people can watch on television, the Australian reports.
Officials are examining the possibility of scheduling games from 2pm-9pm or 3pm-10pm. Tests, which traditionally begin at 11am and finish at 6pm, always span weekends, but suffer from smaller audiences on weekdays when people work. The day games also miss TV's prime ratings periods.
"We are tossing it around and working out the fundamentals," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said. “In a realistic sense, we don't see any reason why we can't be at least trialling some day-night Test cricket matches - not necessarily all of them - before the end of the decade.”
In the Sydney Morning Herald Jessica Halloran reports Stephanie Brantz has been cut from Nine’s commentary team. Brantz claimed she was told by Nine sports bosses that no one on the Australian cricket team wanted to talk to her.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo