Oh yea, I didn't mean introduce it at the highest level first. I meant start holding a few FC tourneys under lights.
I would presume the TV audience for a sports event at 7pm on a weeknight is bigger than at noon on the same day.
Oh, it certainly would - but there's no point doing something which will potentially damage the calibre of the game, and even if it doesn't, will dilute the purity of what is generally regarded as the purest form of the game, purely for the sake of making it cosmetically look a bit more exciting.
Remember it well indeed. It was in some respects really, really interesting, but it was potentially dangerous and certainly needlessly disadvantageous toward the fielding side. Remember particularly the instance where someone - might've been Lou Vincent - skied an attempted pull to long-leg and Usman Afzaal saw it one moment and didn't the next. Just literally lost it completely and all thoughts turned to self-protection.
Said it many times, but balls a bigger problem than pitches IMO. A ball that swings consistently is more useful to good bowlers than a green pitch - obviously, the two combined is the best-case scenario.
How does starting at 7pm dilute the purity of the game?
It'll up viewing as well because a full house at Kolkata under lights is far more watchable than playing in front of some random empty concrete bowl.
From the sounds of what's written by the more knowledgeable Indian posters, watchability at the ground has far, far less to do with start time and far more to do with little effort being made to cater for what could in honesty be catered for without tremendous expense or effort.
Test cricket has always been a day game. It's not a dilution of true terribleness as, for instance, putting field restrictions in or allowing players to question the Umpire's decision. But it's still something that, if the choice is between do it and don't do it with all else equal, the choice is "don't" rather than "doesn't matter".How does starting at 7pm dilute the purity of the game?
Bringing in boundary ropes, same as playing on ****ing ridiculously small grounds, has always been a terrible idea and something Test cricket is infinitely best-off without.
That's circular logic. That could be used to disallow helmets, or covered pitches, or a black player as captain of West Indies cricket team for that matter.
