Adelaide’s inaugural day-night Test had pink balls,blood-orange skies, dinner breaks and left fans glad they witnessed the coming of cricket’s future first handAnd so to Adelaide Oval, or the super-fine and functional cricket stadium in leafy,gentrified and really fairly cool North Adelaide, where Australia is playing recent Zealand in the world’s first day-night Test cricket match. And it’s really fairly good. Checkerboard outfield with four shades of green. Mighty Moreton bay fig trees at the southern stop. A grassy, or chock-full hill under a grand mature heritage scoreboard. And a bright hot pink ball is fizzing approximately like a hi-vis,a half-sucked Jaffa. And it’s brilliant.
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Source: theguardian.com