Lyon had the experience of bowling with the pink ball in the Sheffield Shield game for New South Wales against South Australia, which was played at the Adelaide Oval.
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Resuming on 80-2, New Zealand lost their first three wickets of the session for just four runs, with opener Tom Latham, Ross Taylor and captain Brendon McCullum all falling through loose shots.
Steve Smith remains on 24 overnight, Adam Voges undfeated with 9.
With the match starting at 2 p.m. local time (0330 GMT) at the Adelaide Oval, lunch was dispensed with and the first break was tea.
Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson (centre) is surrounded by team mates after taking the wicket of Martin Guptill on day 5 of the second Trans-Tasman Test match between Australia and New Zealand at the WACA, Perth.
Hughes, who played 26 Tests, died from bleeding on the brain on November 27 past year after being hit on the base of the skull by a rising ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground during a domestic match. The Aussie pacers excelled with the pink ball as the trio of Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Peter Siddle shared eight wickets between them.
New Zealand was struggling at 173-7 against Australia on Friday before dinner was served for the very first time in a cricket test, a civilized transition between tradition and progression on day one of the first day-night match in the format.
So we’re at stumps at the end of the first day’s play in the historic day-night Test match.
“To go out there in probably the toughest part of the day to be 2-50, it’s not a bad situation”.
Australia got to 54 for two. “And that’s really exciting for world cricket”.
Their satisfaction was tempered, however, with an injury to pace spearhead Mitchell Starc who limped off late in the middle session to have scans. “It definitely swung around a little bit there with the new ball, and there was still a shade of it with it 22 overs old”. I think from what everyone’s saying, it is a different game under lights.
“We definitely wanted to bat first”, he told state radio broadcaster ABC in a pitchside interview.
The dismissals of the Australian openers exposed some vulnerability against serious swing but the unprecedented conditions didn’t help the hosts. But real life intruded in the most brutal fashion, as Philip Hughes passed away from his injuries exactly one year ago today.
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“Hopefully it goes off brilliantly, there are no challenges and no problems”.
