Floodlit Cricket

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Floodlit (day/night) Cricket is cricket played under floodlights at night. The use of floodlights in cricket matches has helped to being much investment both at a national and an international level into the game since it began in 1977. Today Floodlit (day/night) cricket is played in most of the test playing nations although some nations have only started hosting day/night matches in the last 10 to 12 years.

[edit] Early History of Floodlit Cricket

Floodlit cricket began in Australia when Kerry Packer organised the World Series Cricket competition in the late 1970s for his television company Nine Network. On 27th November 1977 the very first day/night match was played at Adelaide between WSC Australia and the WSC West Indies, a match in which the WSC West Indies won batting under the floodlights. Very quickly day/night cricket went from strength to strength and even when the WSC ended in 1979 Australia started playing official ODI's under floodlights and by 1985 most ODI's in Australia were being played under lights at night.