Joe Root has questioned whether the Ashes needs to include a pink-ball Test as England prepare to meet Australia in a day-nighter in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
England are 1-0 behind in the five-match series after defeat in Perth and will attempt to level the series from Thursday at the Gabba – a ground where they have not won since 1986.<\/p>\n
Day-night Tests were sanctioned by the International Cricket Council in 2015 in the hope audiences would be “encouraged and improved”.<\/p>\n
The concept has been embraced in Australia. Thirteen of the 24 day-night Tests to have been played have been in this country.<\/p>\n
Australia also have an outstanding record in day-night Tests, winning 13 of their 14 worldwide. England have won two of their seven, including three defeats in Australia.<\/p>\n
Asked whether he believed the Ashes, cricket’s oldest rivalry, needs a day-night Test, former England captain Root told BBC Sport: “I personally don’t think so.<\/p>\n
“It does add to things. It’s successful and popular here, and Australia have got a good record here as well. You can see why we’re playing one of those games.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately, you know from two years out it is going to be there. It’s part and parcel of making sure you’re ready for it.<\/p>\n
“A series like this, does it need it? I don’t think so, but it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be here either.”<\/p>\n
Australia’s solitary defeat in a pink-ball Test came in their previous day-nighter at the Gabba, a shock loss to West Indies last year.<\/p>\n
There has been one day-night Test played in England \u2013 against West Indies in 2017.<\/p>\n
Australia have traditionally held their floodlit Tests in Adelaide, events that have proved popular with fans.<\/p>\n
Though the Ashes schedule has changed for this tour \u2013 Adelaide is the third Test in the series and played in the day time – the pink-ball Test has remained on the calendar.<\/p>\n
By beginning the series in Perth, in the west-coast time zone, and following with a day-nighter in Brisbane, the series opens with two matches suitable for prime-time TV viewing on the east coast of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Root has questioned whether the Ashes needs to include a pink-ball Test as England prepare to meet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-318108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}