Sabina Park to host Day/Night test with WI playing Australia as part of a three-match Test series in the Caribbean.
Sabina Park is all set to host The day-night Test match which will see West Indies host Australia in the pink-ball fixture.
This website has received confirmation of the story from several West Indies cricket officials. Additional lights that meet the specifications of a pink-ball test are being installed at Sabina Park as part of an upgrade.
“The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) is best authorised to comment on this but I can confirm that a day/night match will be played in the summer,” Daley Redcliffe, the head of Kingston Cricket Club (KCC), said.
“This Test match is significant and historic for the Jamaica Cricket Association and Jamaica. The Government of Jamaica, in partnership with the JCA/CWI (Cricket West Indies) has invested significant sums of money to upgrade the lights to meet all the International requirements. This coupled with a newly installed electronic scoreboard before said Test Match. At this time we are comfortable with the preparations and looking forward to hosting a successful Test match,” Courtney Francis, the CEO JCA, told this website.
Sabina Park Holdings, JCA, and KCC jointly own the park, and all three organizations—mostly the last two—are aiming for the test. The island’s sports minister recently guaranteed the parties that the initiative would receive money.
“We are going to advance the funds through the Sports Development Foundation. I’ve had discussions with the Minister of Finance who will reimburse those funds. However, I don’t know if you’re aware of the issues regarding Sabina Park Holdings and the Kingston Cricket Club and the JCA where there is no proper entity functioning now with whom we would sign an agreement,” Jamaica’s Minister of Sport Olivia Grange was quoted by Sportsmax website
The West Indies’ 2018 match against Sri Lanka at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, will be the first pink-ball Test in the Caribbean. The game has been won by Sri Lanka by four wickets.
Since the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does not include day-night in its calendar, the idea has not quite taken off. According to the BCCI, the pink-ball test is short.