England and Australia consider day-night Ashes Test

England and Australia are to hold talks over the staging of a floodlit Ashes Test in 2017-18 with the Adelaide Oval the most likely venue.

Adelaide is the preferred venue for the England & Wales Cricket Board and they will resist any attempt to play the game at the Gabba in Brisbane, which was linked with a floodlit Ashes Test at the weekend.

To prepare for the floodlit Test the ECB will arrange day-night championship matches in 2017 to enable the players some exposure to playing with the pink ball. Those matches would have to take place at the end of the season, due to the availability of England players and the fact the long high summer twilight would make floodlights redundant.

The ECB are expected to arrange day-night County Championship matches

“It is certainly on the radar," said James Sutherland, the chief executive of Cricket Australia. “We haven't had any formal conversations with the ECB. With the success of the Adelaide Test match this year, the anticipation (is) that we will have at least one day-night Test (in 2016).

“It seems like it would be a natural progression for there to be an Ashes day-night Test match in 2017-18. We'll have meetings in Dubai (in January) with a lot of the chief executives and certainly be talking to counterparts at Pakistan and South Africa. They definitely know it will be on the agenda. The right place, right time and right conditions - we're going to see more Test cricket played in the evening.”

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