Day-night Test cricket is essential for the survival of format: New Zealand Cricket chief

Players and traditionalists must survive pink-ball tests or the five-day format, New Zealand Cricket chief David White warned on Thursday not to accept.
Australia and New Zealand played the inaugural day-night Test in Adelaide last year and attracts huge crowds ones to compete in limited overs versions of the game.
But players from both sides complained about the pink ball, is more to be visible under floodlights, and some conservatives considered it to 1877 a test tradition undermined.
White said there was strong enthusiasm for more day-night Tests at a meeting of the Board International Cricket Council in Dubai last weekend.
He said there was also a wave of support from fans and television stations, the confidence expressed that the players would come around eventually.
"I think that the players will be very supportive going forward, (day-night Test cricket) is essential for the survival of the format, to be honest," he said Radio Sport.
White said day-nighters would never dominate Test cricket, but he could come to a time in the eye when most series contain a game played under lights.
"It provides an opportunity for the game to the fans to be more accessible, and we got to listen to them, they drive the revenue, they drive the game," he said.
"We have to maintain the traditions of the game - I like any other traditional'm -. But we've got to look into the future"
Players concerns after the Adelaide Test on the movement of the pink ball and durability, as well as the difficulty faced batsmen to see it in the dark.
South Africa's players also have to undertake, nor rejected a day-night Test this year in Adelaide, Australia cricket boss James Sutherland in the past week.
'Guinea pig'
Black Caps coach Mike Hesson said "fine tuning" would solve the problems and insisted Zealand players backed the concept of day-night Tests.
"I think it is inevitable that we will play much more day-night cricket in the coming years," he told reporters.
However, White said Indian officials had "premature" last week in announcing that it. A pink-ball Test against New Zealand when the Black Caps Tour would play later this year
He said NZC wanted it to go ahead, but it would not be in locked until discussions about topics such as practice matches were completed.
He said administrators in India saw it as a way to raise the profile of Test cricket.
"They realize that they've got a problem with their masses in Test match cricket," he said.
"While T20 and one-day cricket is huge, fight big crowds get for Test matches."
Hesson denied administrators in Australia and now India were with New Zealand as "guinea pigs" to study to investigate the effectiveness of day-night cricket before take against big name opponents.
He said it would be an honor in the first pink-ball test in India are involved in the game, if the device is expected.
"To be playing to a full house in India in a Test match something very special," he said.