Some of the matches in the upcoming West Indies Cricket Board’s Professional Cricket League regional 4-day tournament will be day/night contests.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says six of the 30 games will be played with pink balls. The WICB says it has scheduled the matches throughout the coming season which begins on November 11 in keeping with the trend worldwide and to further pursue the experiment that it started six years ago.
Cricket Operations Manager Roland Holder revealed that each team has two matches – one home, one away – as gradually international boards begin to embrace this concept.
He says the concept will allow elite players to familiarise themselves with the pink ball, as well as provide spectator appeal.
Four of the day/night matches, which will begin at 3 pm daily, have been scheduled before the Christmas/New Year’s holiday break in the tournament.
The Jamaica Scorpions will experience day/night game when they play away to the Leeward Islands Hurricanes from December 15-18 at Warner Park in St Kitts during the fifth round.
Recently, West Indies completed their first ever day/night test, when Pakistan defeated them by 56 runs in a tense finish in Dubai.
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