England could horde day-night Tests in a future…‘if people wish it, we’ll give it a try,’ reveals ECB authority Colin Graves

Australia played New Zealand in a first-ever day-night Test final month
More than 123,000 spectators turned adult to watch a Adelaide Oval action
ECB authority Colin Graves is ‘open-minded’ about England following suit
Hampshire, Lancashire and Durham are receptive to implementing the idea
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13:23 GMT, 1 Dec 2015

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Colin Graves has certified he is ‘open-minded’ about a probability of England hosting a initial day-night Test after a success of a pink-ball examination in Adelaide final week – and he has been corroborated adult by comparison officials during counties who horde Tests.

More than 123,000 incited adult to watch Australia kick New Zealand inside 3 days, and a ECB authority told Sportsmail: ‘It’s early days, though we can put it on a table. If people wish it, we’ll give it a try.’

The thought that day-night Test cricket competence work in this nation has generally been discharged since of a colder evenings possibly side of midsummer and a dew, that could make a round tough to grip.

ECB authority Colin Graves (right) has certified that England could horde day-night Test matches in a future

Fans enjoyed a initial ever day-night Test during a Adelaide Oval and have called for some-more like it

Australia's Mitchell Starc inspects a pinkish round as their third Test got going opposite New Zealand final month

Australia’s Mitchell Starc inspects a pinkish round as their third Test got going opposite New Zealand final month

Graves also remarkable a Adelaide game’s early finish, with conjunction side creation some-more than 224 and a advantage installed in a bowler’s foster around a twilight period, when a round swung some-more than it did during illumination hours.

But Hampshire supremo Rod Bransgrove said: ‘Would a Ageas Bowl theatre a day-night Test if we were offering a chance? Yes, of march we would. we positively wouldn’t conflict it, and it would assistance answer some of a questions people have.

‘I would like to see something pioneering to deliver an eroding audience. We can child ourselves since of a Ashes that Test compare cricket is still OK, though it isn’t.

‘We don’t wish to detract from a integrity of a game, and there was an emanate with a approach a round changed in a final eventuality any day in Adelaide. But there’s a current examination to be carried out.’

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Bransgrove’s unrestrained was reflected by other counties contacted by Sportsmail. Lancashire arch executive Daniel Gidney said: ‘We are unequivocally understanding of flourishing a patron bottom of cricket, and personification a diversion during some-more appealing times of a day is a track we’d be penetrating to try further.

‘Last year we trialled a after start time for a County Championship diversion opposite Leicestershire during Emirates Old Trafford, that valid to be popular, quite for a ‘supper’ session.

‘Clearly, there still needs to be some-more work finished on a pinkish round given a vagaries of a British weather, though Old Trafford would be positively geared adult to horde day-night Tests if a ECB asked us to.’

Pink balls graphic after being used for warming adult during day one of a third Test on Nov 27

A box of a pinkish Kookaburra balls on arrangement forward of a start of play during a Adelaide Oval

Durham authority Clive Leach added: ‘I consider a competition has to try to make it work. We have to find ways of reaching out to those who wish to see live cricket. The usually approach to do that is to make it accessible during times when people are around.

‘The pinkish round competence concede us to do that. When a white round came in, there were all sorts of concerns, though now we take it for granted. We’ve got to make it happen.’

MCC partner secretary John Stephenson helped colonize a introduction of a pinkish ball, that has now been used in 6 unbroken day-night first-class matches in Abu Dhabi between MCC and a champion county.

And, examination a movement live during a Adelaide Oval, he certified his ‘heart was pumping’ as Australia’s Mitchell Starc ran in to play a opening smoothness of a Test to New Zealand’s Martin Guptill on Friday.

The shade underneath a player's helmets gave divided a spirit as to a hurdles of personification underneath floodlights

The shade underneath a player’s helmets gave divided a spirit as to a hurdles of personification underneath floodlights

‘I consider a ECB are right to keep an open mind,’ he said. ‘And I’m unequivocally speedy that other venues seem to have shown enthusiasm. The Test in Adelaide went like a dream and we couldn’t keep your eye off a action.

‘It shows what can be finished if everybody works together. This might be a matter and a wake-up call. we was confident, since we’d staged 6 of these matches already, so we knew it was a viable format. It’s all about formulating a eventuality around it.’

Stephenson pronounced groundstaff during Adelaide had used a mist to minimise a outcome of dew, though combined that Lord’s was still some approach off deliberation a probability of a pink-ball Test.

But venues outward London in non-Ashes years mostly onslaught to attract large crowds for Test cricket, and a prolonged evenings in midsummer could infer an ideal probability for a English diversion to take a plunge.

‘It’s unequivocally sparkling that people are articulate about Test cricket,’ pronounced Stephenson. ‘When we are in a clever position, that’s a time to do something, rather than wait for things to decline before we act.’