New Zealand cricketers against day-night tests

He said the Union of New Zealand Cricket Players senior players and New Zealand overwhelmingly against plans to play "night and day" Test cricket when Australia tour this year, for fear that "devaluation" of the game on the concept Thursday. It is night and day cricket played under lights using a pink ball has been promoted enthusiastically Cricket Australia (CA), which is keen to bring the game for five days of TV viewers in prime time.

CA experience night and day first-class cricket in the 2014-15 Sheffield Shield season in order to organize the first test of its kind under the spotlight when the New Zealand tour of Australia said CEO of the Association of the players November.But NZ "Heath Mills were skeptical black hats." We have asked the New Zealand Cricket players to get the ideas of a few months ago, "he told AFP." The results were overwhelmingly do not support playing day and night Test cricket. "

New Zealand is set to play three tests in Australia, with Adelaide regarded as the front-runner to host the Day nighter.Mills said New Zealand cricketers seen test series against Australia as the "summit" and wanted it played under the traditional rules. "(It was the last test series between the two teams 2011/12) It's kind of the ashes of our series, we do not play in Australia often, so it's a rare opportunity to go up against them," he said.

"For some of these players, it will be the experiences of a series of the most important of their jobs. They do not want anything that could be seen on the devaluation of the it.To playing under the lights, with a pink ball, in the circumstances they're not familiar with, it feels like a bit of a show , instead of being part of a very intense series of experiments. "

Mills said they also received negative reactions from Australian players on the pink ball, and innovation designed to make more visible than the traditional red ball.And it there was concern also was paid experience by Cricket Australia instead of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as part of the broader strategy.

"If we are concerned about the popularity of test cricket, and we would like to think that the International Criminal Court to review the lead group, not individual countries to go their own way in the custom trends," he said.

But Mills said that if Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket decided to move forward in the game then post players, despite their reservations. "The players have these questions, especially since we already have two versions of the sport that actually played in the night and said we are very innovative about."

", CA and NZ Cricket are serious about moving forward in the concept of day-night cricket test," said a spokesman for CA said Cricket Australia that it is moving forward in the test day and night plans. "We believe it will strengthen the just position and the possibilities for test cricket in many parts of the challenge world. The attempt is to make test cricket more accessible to the masses. "