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In April 2016, Cricket Australia (CA) suggested that the third Test at the Adelaide Oval could be played as a day/night match, but there was some reluctance from the South African cricketers. [5] [6] In June, CA confirmed that the Adelaide Test would be played as a day/night game. [7] Prior to the series, both teams played practice day/night ...
India also participated in an ODI tri-series with Australia and Zimbabwe. The Test series was drawn 1–1, and India retained the Border–Gavaskar Trophy because of their victory in the Trophy's previous contest. In the 2003–04 series' Adelaide Test, Rahul Dravid scored a double century, securing a famous win for India.
The 1965–66 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each of five days with six hours play and eight ball overs.It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1965–66 and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
The longest Test on record was between South Africa and England in Durban, South Africa. The game started on 3 March 1939 and play continued on the 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and the 14th. Play was scheduled for the 11th, but none was possible because of rain, giving 9 days of actual play and 10 days of scheduled play.
The Test matches were scheduled for five days with six hours play each day, with a rest day on the Monday, and overs were eight balls long. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1970–71 and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
It was another day of rain at the Gabba in Brisbane on Tuesday, almost ensuring the third cricket test between Australia and India would end in a soggy draw. After four days of play, India was 252 ...
The crowd at Eden Gardens on the first day of the first day/night Test match in India.. Although the idea was birthed in the western Adelaide suburb of Cowandilla in the 1930s, [3] [4] which led to an 11 team Electric Light Cricket competition there in the 1930s, [5] it is believed that the first match played under floodlights in England was on 11 August 1952, between Middlesex County Cricket ...
The New Zealand cricket team toured Australia from 23 October to 1 December 2015 to play three Test matches and four tour matches. [1] The third match of the series at the Adelaide Oval was the first ever day-night Test.