South Africa a has agreed to play day night Test on Australia Tour from November 24 in Adelaide. Australia have already hosted a day night Test match against New Zealand on November 27, last year in the same venue. This will be an another historic mark in Australia’s Cricket history as they are going to host 2nd day night test match this year against the Proteas. Cricket Australia CEO, James Sutherland thanked Cricket South Africa to support day night test match. Sutherland said “Cricket fans will be delighted to hear the news that the third match of the Test series against South Africa will be played as a day-night match, particularly those planning to attend the Adelaide Oval match.”
Sutherland further went onto say “Nearly 124,000 people attended the inaugural day-night Test match (against New Zealand) in Adelaide last year and there has been great anticipation about future day-night Tests since. It’s wonderful that the next one in Australia will be against South Africa. This announcement will further fuel the excitement about what promises to be a fascinating series between these two formidable rivals.”
Cricket South Africa CEO, Haroon Lorgart said, “Following careful consideration and engagement with all our Test players, and recognizing the need to exploit the potential of playing day-night Test cricket, I am pleased to announce that we have agreed with Cricket Australia to proceed with this fixture”. He also said, “Our Proteas were initially hesitant to play such a key Test match without previous experience and adequate preparation but after working through all their concerns and possible options to prepare sufficiently, there is newfound excitement for this novel Test match. Our players deserve credit for the way they have worked through the issues which were clearly not insignificant.”
South African Cricket Team is scheduled to arrive in Australia in mid of October and immediately they will proceed to Adelaide to play two-day tour match as part of their preparation. Also they will have an additional two-day warm up match under lights before the scheduled day night test match.