2015 Australia Vs New Zealand Third Test @ Adelaide Nov 27-Dec 01,2015 -Historic First Ever Day-Night Test Match Starts Today Friday Nov 27,2015

Australia will host New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval in a match which starts Friday afternoon and is set to span five days and nights. 

It’s a real departure from tradition, with the relatively untested pink leather ball replacing the standard-issue red for the first time in a format that dates back to the 1870s. 

“We are creating history playing in the first day-night test so I’m sure a lot of people are going to be watching around the world,” Australia captain Steve Smith said. “And that’s really exciting for world cricket.” 

The uniforms will remain white for the Adelaide test which is one reason why the white ball used in limited-overs matches is not a viable option for the test but the session breaks for lunch, once treated as the immovable feast, and tea will change. 

Play will start at 2 p.m. local time, instead of late morning, and tea will be held after the first session instead of the second, with dinner scheduled between the second and third sessions. 

Curators have left a green tinge on the usually dirt-dry Adelaide Oval pitch, too, expecting to give the bowlers some assistance in a series that has been dominated by the bat. 

Australia won the opening test at Brisbane by 208 runs and the second test in Perth ended in a high-scoring draw, so the series is still alive.

Day One Friday Nov 27,2015

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat first

Squads

Australia
 David Warner, Burns, Steve Smith, Adam Voges, Shaun Marsh,Mitchell  Marsh,Peter Nevill, Mitchell Starc,Peter  Siddle, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon

New Zealand
Tom Latham,Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor,Brendon  McCullum (c), Mitchell Santner, B J Watling, Doug Bracewell, Mark Craig,Tim  Southee, Trent Boult.


There were all sorts of firsts in the opening session of day-night Test cricket.

Mitchell Starc bowled the first Test delivery with a pink ball, Martin Guptill scored the first run, Josh Hazlewood took the first wicket.
The first wicket to fall had been that of Guptill, who scored Test cricket's first run with a pink ball but did not manage any more than that single.
Josh Hazlewood nailed Martin Guptill lbw

But perhaps most importantly for the state of the match, Australia got rid of Kane Williamson cheaply for the first time in this series.

And just before the first break - called tea, rather than lunch - Tom Latham registered his first fifty of the series in 92 Balls with 4x7

A total of 2 for 80 in the first session of a Test - Latham was on 50 and Ross Taylor on 7 - seems about right

Australia wins first day-night Test by 3 wickets

Australia won the first ever day-night cricket test by 3 wickets against New Zealand on Sunday, with tail-enders Peter Siddle and Mitch Starc ushering the hosts to victory in a dramatic finish under lights that will almost certainly ensure the format isn’t consigned to history as a one-time event.

 

The match was over inside three days, which hasn’t happened in an Adelaide Oval test since 1951 and which highlighted the differences of using the pink ball and playing under lights in the longest form of the game. 

 

Ball dominated bat, particularly in the twilight sessions. The first 25 wickets tumbled in two days before New Zealand resumed Sunday at 116-5, an overall lead of 94

Josh Hazlewood, leading the attack because the injured Starc wasn’t allowed to bowl, returned a career-best 6-70 and Mitch Marsh took 3-59 to bowl the New Zealanders out for 208 in the first session and set up the target. Trent Boult responded with figures of 5-60 for New Zealand, including
Shaun Marsh for 49 just as the home team appeared to be coasting, to ensure a tense two hours before Australia clinched the three-match series 2-0.

Peter Siddle hit the winning runs for Australia in the historic day-night Test.

 

Despite the three-day finish, the day-night concept for tests was popular with local fans, with the crowd of 33,923 on day three taking the total attendance to 123,736 for the match. 

 

Mitchell Starc will miss Australia’s next three-test series against the West Indies, which starts Dec. 10 at Hobart

Peter Siddle became the 15th Australian bowler to take 200 Test wickets during his spell on the first day Friday Nov 27 Test match against  NZ in Adelaide.

 

 Doug Bracewell became Siddle's 200th victim in Tests when he was caught at short mid-wicket in the first-ever day-night Test match in the history of the game.
 

Peter Siddle returned figures of two for 54 in the 17 overs he managed to bowl,

Scorecard

New Zealand 1st Innings - 202 (Tom Latham 50, Mitchell Santner 31; Mitch Starc 3-24, Josh Hazlewood 3-66).

Australia 1st Innings - 224 (Peter Nevill 66, Steve Smith 53, Nathan Lyon 34; Doug Bracewell 3-18)

New Zealand 2nd Innings - 208 (Mitchell Santner 45, Ross Taylor 32; Josh Hazlewood 6-70, Mitch Marsh 3-59)

Australia 2nd Innings - 187-7 (Shaun Marsh 49, David Warner 35; Trent Boult 5-60)