AFP, Melbourne :
England will be unlikely to stage a day-night Ashes Test match when Australia tour in 2019, England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tom Harrison said on Wednesday.
Harrison said England did not need a pink-ball Test in their home Ashes schedule, although Australia has already staged four day-night Tests in recent years.
The two countries played the first day-night Test against each other in the second match of the current series at Adelaide Oval earlier this month.
A further two day-night Tests — against India and Sri Lanka — are likely to be staged in the 2018-2019 season.
“It’s to be decided, but it’s unlikely, to be honest,” Harrison told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne.
“I think we’ve got a format that works brilliantly well for us in Ashes cricket in the UK.
“Right time, right place, right conditions are the rules for day-night Test cricket. I think we’ll wait and see, but it’s unlikely I would say.”
