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.

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.