New Zealand national cricket team, Day/night cricket, England cricket team, Australia national cricket team, Eden Park | Editorial: Real test of pink ball will be the crowd
New Zealand national cricket team, Day/night cricket, England cricket team, Australia national cricket team, Eden Park. The red ball of test cricket has proved to be too dark at night and the white ball needs to be played with coloured clothing. So pink makes its debut. The cricket test between New Zealand and England starting at Eden Park today is not the first to be played at night but it is the first in this country. Five-day cricket has been struggling to attract crowds to matches in most countries for a long time and believes the success of day-night timing in the limited overs game might transfer to the format its followers still call "real cricket". It will feel strange to them to turn up at 2pm to watch the first ball bowled, and even stranger to see players in white garb continue under floodlights as darkness descends. They will be playing with a pink ball, which has attracted most of the interest of aficionados. The red ball of test cricket...