Warner urged fans, players and administrators to be patient as cricket entered a new frontier, and insisted that he and his colleagues should be equipped to deal with the change of ball.
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The first round begins on Wednesday with day-night matches using pink balls in Adelaide, Melbourne and Hobart, and several Test contenders will be keen to impress the selectors ahead of the Gabba Test. Warner’s main aim will be to prove he has completely recovered from the thumb fracture he suffered during the one-day series against England in September, and which ruled him out of the Test tour of Bangladesh that was subsequently cancelled.
“It is going to be challenging with the pink ball, I understand that, but we have played day-night cricket before and there is no excuse why we can’t go out and play this game at night”.
Had he still been playing, Rogers was unlikely to have taken part in the Test for he is colour blind and struggled to sight the ball during state-based trials last summer.
“From a bowling perspective it’s going to be different if the ball just starts going straight from an early time in the innings, because you rely on that as a bowler if it’s moving around, or if it gets old, you usually look for reverse (swing), and I don’t think it’s going to happen with the pink ball”.
“I have heard that is nearly being described as the fourth format of the game, and that is a little bit worrying”.
“It’s here to stay, so we’re going to have to find a way to get on with it”, Harris told SEN’s The Run Home. “The contrast between the ball and background was very hard”.
David Warner’s comeback from a fractured thumb has been confirmed after he was named in the New South Wales squad for the opening round of the Sheffield Shield campaign this week.
Victorian captain Matthew Wade, also Australia’s one-day worldwide gloveman, said he would be prepared to detail his thoughts to the ACA once the Shield match is over, although it appears certain nothing short of a disaster, or major issues surrounding health and safety, will change CA’s mind.
“I don’t have a problem with the concept at all”.
Representatives from Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association, plus production crew from Channel Nine, will all be in Adelaide watching how things progress and preparing for the Test match to be played at the same ground in a month’s time.
The first ever day-night Test between Australia and New Zealand will be played at the Adelaide Oval from November 27.
“The concept sits quite comfortably with all the players, but the pink ball, there could be a better option about”.
“It is irrelevant about what ball you use”, Warner said.
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Cary said trials in the Shield over the past two seasons had allowed for an even contest between bat and ball.
