County Championship set for first round of day-night cricket

The day-night matches will all start on Monday, June 26, and be played with pink balls.

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Published 25 November 2016 11:08am

Source: Reuters

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The ECB hope that gaining more experience in these conditions will prove useful to England's players ahead of their first ever day-night test match against West Indies in August at Edgbaston.

The County Championship has only featured one previous day-night match -- a trial game between Kent and Glamorgan at Canterbury in 2011.

(Reporting by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)

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