ECB: We don't need a day-night Test in Ashes 2019 schedule

28 December,2017 11:59 AM IST |  Melbourne  |  AFP

England will be unlikely to stage a day-night Ashes Test match when Australia tour in 2019, England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison said yesterday


England will be unlikely to stage a day-night Ashes Test match when Australia tour in 2019, England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison said yesterday. Harrison said England did not need a pink-ball Test in their home Ashes schedule. The two countries played the first day-night Test against each other in the second match of the current series at Adelaide Oval earlier this month. A further two day-night Tests - against India and Sri Lanka - are likely to be staged in the 2018-2019 season. "It's to be decided, but it's unlikely, to be honest," Harrison told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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