Day-night Test cricket will be great for the game, but is it the best solution to save the longest form of the game from redundancy? It will, if the administrators have the balls. By that, we don't mean bravado, but the right kind of leather and lacquer to make day-night Tests a meaningful substitute for day Tests.

Even as South Africa have still not agreed to be a part of the next Australian summer's day-night Test, the Indian cricket board's secretary Anurag Thakur announced recently that one of next season's India vs New Zealand Tests will be played under lights in India. The New Zealand board were quick to state that a lot of aspects have to be considered before they are part of this innovation on Indian shores. New Zealand should know because they figured in the first ever day-night Test last year.