England will host day-night Test: Colin Graves

England Cricket Board’s chairman Colin Graves has confirmed that the country is keen on hosting the Day-Night format of cricket. The innovative form of cricket saw its arrival at the international level when Australia and New Zealand met last November at Adelaide Oval.

The revolutionary form of cricket is slowly entering Asia as well. India and Pakistan are scheduled to play day-night Tests this year while Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are considering following suit pending the results of domestic trials.

“You can’t turn your back on it, it will happen,” England and Wales Cricket Board Chairman Graves told BBC Sport.

“We just have to decide when it is going to happen. We’re doing a lot of work on it and we’d love to see day-night cricket.”

The inaugural Pink ball Test at Adelaide Oval lasted only three days and attracted 123,000 fans through the gates at the picturesque ground.

England have also attempted a few changes by introducing a new points-based system to determine the winner of their home series against Sri Lanka that has gotten underway at Headingley.

Graves said work needed to be done to make the longest format more exciting and relevant.

“We have to make Test cricket meaningful and we have to put some ‘oomph’ behind it,” Graves said.

“Test cricket is safe if we do something about it, but I don’t think it is safe if we do nothing. That is not an option. The International Cricket Council are looking at it and the other countries are looking at it.”