Day/Night Test Cricket

Mr. T20 genius came up with this new idea - "Test cricket must go day and night", if not he warned that test cricket will die. 

Here's my take:

- What do we do with the ball? Seeing a RED ball under lights is difficult not only for the players but also for the spectators. Changing it to white will NOT work since they already cannot keep the white ball white for 50 overs in ODI. So we need a change in law to make this happen.

- What about the pitch and outfield? It gets wet due to fog in most of the countries and in some of the countries, even summer is cold during night time. The dew and cold weather could dramatically favor batting team or bowling team.

- Spectators in the stadium - Though ticket sales does not impact the revenue in a big way these days, spectators in the stand is crucial. Thinking people will show up after work for a test match is a huge assumption. (BTW, claiming that people have work to do during day time hence cannot watch a game is an useless comment. People in the nineties had to go for work too.)

- Claiming broadcasters run the game - This is such a shameless comment. The game should be bigger than anything. Regardless of commercial interests, passion for sport should be the prime reason for playing a sport. The same should be the case for administrators too.

When ODI was introduced everyone thought test cricket is waste of time, now everyone hates ODI. T20 is new and people seem to like it for now. I am sure money motive people, the one dimensional nature of the format and the overkill of number of tournaments will make this format boring soon. T20 organizers have successfully shortened the career for bowlers, made batsman more greedy and demoted spectators, especially young ones, from being involved to impatient.

Don't worry about test cricket and leave it alone, it will survive and people who loved test cricket will always love it.