DAY/NIGHT TESTS
Gearing up for sunset clauses of Test cricket
Cricket-minded types looking forward to the brave new world of four-day‚ day/night Test cricket might want to swot up on the regulations that will become part of their reality when the Proteas take on Zimbabwe at St George’s Park on December 26. Play will start at 1.30pm‚ Cricket SA said on Wednesday‚ and is scheduled to end at 9pm. Tea will be taken at 4.05pm and supper at 6.20pm‚ and 98 overs are scheduled to be bowled per day/night — up by eight from a regular Test. That adds up to a total of 392‚ or 58 fewer than the 450 overs planned for a five-day match. As is the case in other four-day cricket‚ teams who dismiss their opponents with a lead of more than 150 runs have the option of enforcing the follow-on. The benchmark in five-day games is 200 runs. A new ball will be available after 80 overs‚ as it is in other first-class cricket. But it seems the ball does not have to be pink. That is according to the playing conditions set out by the International Cricket Council: "For day-...
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