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Pink Ball Test Cricket Scheduled For Australia, South Africa In Caribbean Series

Australia will take on the West Indies and South Africa over the next month in a one-day tri-series in the Caribbean but the "dialogue away from the centre wicket could be just as interesting, with November's pink-ball Adelaide Test sure to be on the agenda when Steve Smith's men run into the Proteas," according to Chris Barrett of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Discussions about November's third Test in Adelaide, which Cricket Australia "wants to be the first of two day-night matches for the summer, are likely to be held whether it's at the hotel bar or the change rooms." South Africa captain AB de Villiers has "made little secret of his players' opposition to playing the potential series decider under such conditions," and with some of the Australians also against the staging of two pink-ball Tests in the one season there "appears still some way to go before CA can confirm the start times for Adelaide." Australian cricketer Mitchell Starc was "a vocal sceptic of the concept before last year's inaugural day-night Test against New Zealand." At the time he "questioned the durability and visibility of the ball but the tall left-armer has come around somewhat." After more than 140,000 people attended at Adelaide Oval in three days, he said that he could not "argue with the commercial value but believed there was still progress to be made." He said, "The ball obviously needs a little bit of work but I think it's in a good place and as we saw with the amount of people that came along and the viewers at home, it's obviously here to stay" (SMH, 5/26).

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