New Zealand will play Australia in a day-night test at Perth, it is being reported.
Despite time zone misgivings about staging it in Perth, Cricket Australia will schedule a first ever day-night test in the western state, with play likely to start at 1pm local time each day.
The five-dayer will be played at Optus Stadium, the 60,000-capacity venue completed in 2017. The December clash will be the first match of a three-test series.
West Australia's cricket chief Christina Matthews said they had yet to receive confirmation from Cricket Australia, but she believed the pink-ball test would draw about 100,000 to the ground over the first four days.
"To have the first day-night test in Perth would be a significant historical achievement. Particularly because when they first started talking about day-nighters, Perth was dismissed as never being able to have one because of our time zone," she said.
