The SCG wants to host pink ball Test matches to avoid fans being robbed of play through bad light.
The Sydney Test should become a day-night match or, at the very least, be played with a pink ball to avoid fans being robbed of play through bad light, Venues NSW chairman Tony Shepherd said on Saturday.
There was no support for moving the Test to earlier in the season to try and avoid the rain, with Shepherd, Hockley and batsman Usman Khawaja, who was left stranded on 195 not out on Saturday when Australia captain Pat Cummins declared, all opposing the idea. Day three was washed out on Friday, the 26th time Sydney has lost a full day’s cricket through rain, more than all other Australian Test venues combined.
During the Test, Hockley said that replacing the lights in towers at cricket grounds throughout the country with new LED bulbs would help reduce problems with bad light, but Shepherd insisted this was not an issue at the SCG. “You’d have to look at the Big Bash with 61 games. That would take out another five prime-time nights, which would create some difficulty scheduling.
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