A pink ball has been introduced for the format, instead of the traditional red ball for test matches.
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Swing bowler Trent Boult dismissed in-form David Warner for one, while Doug Bracewell had fellow opener Joe Burns playing on for 14.
Australia got to 54 for two. Australia’s average for the series, despite the failure in Adelaide, is 102.60.
Mitchell Starc will not bowl again in the match, after scans revealed an early-stage stress fracture to the third metatarsal of his right foot.
“It’s very disappointing; he’s bowling so well and been bowling well for a very long time. He’s been on fire”, Siddle, who took 2-54 and celebrated his 200th test wicket, told reporters.
“We’ve got some considerations in terms of the wicket and just some slightly different quirks and with the game obviously being played a bit later”, he said.
The forlorn sight of Mitchell Starc hobbling across the floodlit Adelaide Oval on crutches confirmed he’d bowled his last delivery in the third cricket test.
He trapped the unsafe Kane Williamson in front for 22 with a searing yorker just before the first interval and New Zealand duly crumbled after the break.
Latham went for 50, Taylor for 21 and skipper Brendon McCullum 4 and they never recovered.
Latham hit four boundaries in his 103-ball knock, punishing any stray deliveries impressively before wicketkeeper Peter Nevill took a fine catch to dismiss him off the bowling of Lyon.
The central interest in the day-night Test was how the newly-designed pink ball would react in night conditions under lights, but New Zealand were in danger of being bowled out on the first day of the scheduled five-day third Test.
Initial fears for Starc centred upon his troublesome right ankle, given his recent history of bone spurs and the decision he made to postpone surgery and avoid an extensive lay-off across the middle of an Australian summer that effectively includes eight Tests, with two in New Zealand in February.
New Zealand started positively after Brendon McCullum won the toss in the historic match at the Adelaide Oval, reaching 80 for 2 in the first session and Tom Latham posting a half-century after play started at 2pm local time.
One-day global and Twenty20 games are regularly played under lights but it will be the first time that fans have watched a five-day game late into the evening.
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“I think it was one year to the day since that frightful accident happened, so I think it shook up a few of the players, luckily I think the guy was okay”.
