Seeing the light on day-night Tests
Greg Baum in the Age argues that day-night games will not necessarily save Test cricket worldwide but doing nothing will certainly kill it.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Greg Baum in the Age argues that day-night games will not necessarily save Test cricket worldwide but doing nothing will certainly kill it.
Alone of the three forms, alone also among major sports, Test cricket is exclusively a daylight game. In its heyday that did not matter because all sport was played in the daytime. But for 25 years sport has been moving into the night. The biggest football fixtures are played after dark, the biggest tennis matches, too. At the Olympics, the biggest days are nights.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here