Another day-night Test is on the agenda for the Black Caps, this time in India.
The New Zealanders played the inaugural day-night test against Australia in Adelaide last year, with more than 123,000 fans attending the match which only lasted three days.
Adelaide Oval under lights for the day-night Test (Photosport)
A Board of Control for Cricket in India [BCCI] spokesman confirmed the plans to hold the match later this year.
"We have decided that we will play one day-night Test match with pink ball against New Zealand later this year," BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur told media at BCCI headquarters.
Thakur said the Duleep Trophy will act as a dress rehersal for the match to check how the call behaves in the sub-continental conditions.
Tim Southee bowling in the day-night Test (Photosport)
"While we have not zeroed in on the venue, there are lots of factors that need to be taken into account. Things like dew factor, how the spinners bowl with the pink Kookaburra on Indian pitches."
Test matches in India are usually played with 'SG Test' balls, but Thakur confirmed to the Times of India the day-nighter would be played with the pink Kookaburra.
"We may ask SG to manufacture pink balls later but that has to be of the quality of pink balls that Kookaburra produces."
New Zealand Cricket is working through the details with the BCCI with venues for their end of year tour to India yet to be finalised.
India offers new challenges and former New Zealand bowler Iain O'Brien wonders how the pink ball will cope in local conditions.
"You've got to find somewhere in India that you can actually have a grassy surface that isn't going to have a dewy evening," said O'Brien.
The match is expected to take place in October or November with the Black Caps penciled in to play five ODIs and three tests.
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