Steve Smith backs Cricket Australia campaign for day-night Test
Cricket Australia has its campaign increasingly more day-night Test against South Africa will host published this year by an interview with Captain Steve Smith, in which he backed the proposed device.
South African players on an invitation afraid to play day-night match in Adelaide in November after talks with Australian players including Smith, Proteas skipper AB de Villiers said this week.
Smith, however, said his team would be happy, a day-nighter against South Africa at the famous South Australian venue, and the device is already scheduled to play under lights at the Gabba against Pakistan played in December.
"I am surprised that he called me," Smith was quoted as saying from India in the Cricket Australia (CA) cited website. "The feedback we gave them was that Adelaide is the best place to play it, in our opinion.
"We're playing in Brisbane, but Adelaide is the best place to play it and I think it could work there.
"I do not know where they have their ideas," he added. "If she wanted to play we would be happy."
The Australian Cricketers' Association, however, said on Friday that the feedback had received it from the players, said they would "play a day-night Test only prefer in 2016/17".
"Pink Ball-testing is a fundamentally different game to traditional red ball test matches," chief executive Alistair Nicholson said in a statement.
"We continue to be concerned about the durability and visibility of the pink ball, both changing light conditions and the specially prepared pitches to change the conditions that the players are used at each venue."
CA are committed to the success of last year's inaugural day-night Test against New Zealand in Adelaide Oval Reprise.
The test drew huge crowds, but lasted only three of the planned 5 days at a wicket specially prepared durability problems with the pink ball to compensate.
CA put their talks on the bracket with their South African counterparts and it looks likely that Chief Executive James Sutherland to get his checkbook out again.
CA committed an additional $ 1,000,000 ($ 762,400) A prize money for the series to overcome reservations about the use of the pink ball from Australia and New Zealand to help players.
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