Intro:

Australia and New Zealand will play the first day-night Test cricket match when the southern hemisphere rivals meet in the last match of a three-game series in November.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike McKenna, Cricket Australia Executive General Manager of Operations:

"The Adelaide Oval will be the host of the first ever day night cricket Test match on the 27th of November this year. It's an auspicious moment for cricket and I think it has been a long time coming. But we are very excited about the prospects this brings for both cricket here in Australia and overseas. It is about making the game more accessible to our fans and by bringing the game into a time zone where more of our fans can watch the game. At the moment, most cricket is played during hours when kids are either at school or parents are at work and we are trying to make sure we can bring them to the game and for them to experience all the exciting moments only Test cricket can bring."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike McKenna, Cricket Australia Executive General Manager of Operations:

"We looked at Adelaide, Hobart and Brisbane for this match and Adelaide, because of the ground - the ground is a superb ground - we know the fans of Adelaide turn out in big numbers for Test match cricket and it's also climatically ideal. So also from the perspective of the time of the series - it's the third match of the series and it gives the New Zealand team and the Australian players time to get into the game before they play the first pink ball Test match."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike McKenna, Cricket Australia Executive General Manager of Operations:

"I think the pink ball has been ten years in development. It has been trialled in Sheffield Shield matches and both teams will get plenty of practise in the middle at night before they play the first Test match. With anything new, any innovation, there are always things that we'll learn from this experience but we are very confident the ball is ready to go after this length in development."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mike McKenna, Cricket Australia Executive General Manager of Operations:

"I think players from both sides are pretty apprehensive about it, anything that is new they will be apprehensive about - as players were when they first went to day-night cricket match with ODIs (one-day internationals) in the eighties. So I think it is fair to assume that both teams, when they go out to bat or field will be a little bit nervous. But that's natural."