Cricket: different colour, familiar complexion

By Greg Baum
Updated November 27 2015 - 11:13pm, first published 10:35pm

The first point to be made about day-night Test cricket is that it is mostly day, which hitherto was the only recognisable form anyway. The second point is that a pink-ball Test match is a new look, but not a new game. Rather, it is an old game revived, in which the balance between bat and ball is finely calibrated, supposedly the ideal for Test cricket, but latterly not much the practice. In Brisbane, two wickets fell on the first day, two also in Perth. Here, it was 12. If it was overcorrection, it was not unwelcome. You might say that it put Test cricket in a new light.

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