State high performance departments

State High Performance Departments: Cricket Australia (CA) has confirmed on Friday that three matches in the ongoing Sheffield Shield season will be day-night games. The move marks the return of pink-ball games into Australia’s first-class cricket competition after seven years.

The Sheffield Shield games between South Australia and Western Australia at the Adelaide Oval from November 23-27, followed by the Queensland-Victoria clash at The Gabba in Brisbane, scheduled for November 24-28, will be day-night matches.

The match between Tasmania and New South Wales, scheduled for March 15-18 at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart, will be the third pink-ball game of the ongoing season. The change in the schedule was finalised following collaboration between CA and State High Performance Departments.