New Zealand face day-night challenge as Australia series begins

The tourists pad up for the first of a three-Test series in Perth with no warm-up games and in forecast 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) heat.

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The first Test between Australia and New Zealand will begin from December 12 at Perth Stadium, one of Australia's newest Test centres.

A CA delegation is expected to meet BCCI top brass during the three-match ODI series in India starting January 14 next year.

According to a report in 'ESPNCricinfo', CA feels encouraged about the proposal after India won their maiden D/NTest against Bangladesh.

India became the last major cricket nation to embrace day-night tests when they hosted neighbours Bangladesh in front of a sellout crowd.

With the first D/N pink ball Test out of the way, it is not sure if India would prefer playing D/N Test over regular ones.

Another former England captain Michael Vaughan expressed his desire of seeing India playing an under lights Test against Australia.

All of them thanked their captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly for bringing them together.

The game is just 12th Day/Night game since the format was rolled out in 2015 during an Australia-New Zealand series.

Score as of over 46.0: IND -174/3; Virat Kohli (59), Ajinkya Rahane (23)