Daynight cricket, also known as floodlit cricket, is a cricket match that is played either totally or partially under floodlights in the evening. The first regular cricket to be played under flood lights occurred during World Series Cricket, unsanctioned by the International Cricket Council. Floodlit first-class cricket was first played in 1994, when the concept was tried during the Sheffield Shield. In October 2012, the International cricket Council recast the playing conditions for Test matches, permitting daynight Test matches. In November 2015, the first day night Test Match took place between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval, Adelaide.
About Day/night cricket in brief
Daynight cricket, also known as floodlit cricket, is a cricket match that is played either totally or partially under floodlights in the evening. The first regular cricket to be played under flood lights occurred during World Series Cricket, unsanctioned by the International Cricket Council. In 1979 the first floodlit One Day International was played, also in Australia. Floodlit first-class cricket was first played in 1994, when the concept was tried during the Sheffield Shield. In October 2012, the International cricket Council recast the playing conditions for Test matches, permitting daynight Test matches. In November 2015, the first day night Test Match took place between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval, Adelaide. Daynight cricket is now commonplace in one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket.
For instance, all 27 matches in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 were daynight matches, as were most games in the 2011 Cricket World Cup. In the West Indies the first first class floodlit match occurred in the first match played under the pink ball, between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. The annual curtain-raiser to the English cricket season, the County Championship, was played under lights in 2011, with Kent and St Lawrence playing at Glamorgan Ground. In 2010, the English Premier League introduced floodlights for the first time, in the final game of the season against Somerset at Lord’s. The match was a benefit for Jack Young, and was not the first benefit match held between the two sides.
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