Edgbaston reports strong sales for day-night Test

Edgbaston will host England's first day-night Test in August

Warwickshire have respected the choice to have a day-night Test an "incredible accomplishment" after superior to foreseen ticket deals.

The club have officially sold more than 45,000 tickets for the initial three days of the Test (against West Indies) and anticipate that that number will exceed 60,000 preceding the match begins on August 17. Deals for day two and three - Friday and Saturday - are especially solid.

Day-night Tests have been played with achievement in Australia and the UAE at the same time, given the eccentric atmosphere in the UK, there is some fear about how the principal day-night Test in England will go. There were likewise fears that a generally unassuming West Indies Test group won't not speak to the alluring recommendation it once did.

From a ticketing point of view, however, the thought has obviously been generally welcomed. Warwickshire are particularly enchanted with the way that more than 40 percent of the deals have been made to individuals who have never beforehand purchased Test tickets which proposes either the planning - with the amusement extending into the night - or the scene is helping the diversion bid to another market.

While it is difficult to give more than a harsh gauge, the club trust that, had the amusement been booked as a typical day experience, they may well not have achieved 30,000 deals by this point.

"This is a Test that could have demonstrated an entirely intense offer," Warwickshire's CEO, Neil Snowball, told ABOCcricinfo. "However, we've seen there are clear advantages from the curiosity esteem and we're anticipating an incredible occasion."

The match - the primary day-night Test in which England have played - will be gone before by a series of day-night Championship matches toward the finish of June in which the greater part of England's Test players are planned to be made accessible. That implies that James Anderson, who is probably going to take the new, pink ball in the Test against West Indies, will have the opportunity to bowl with it when Warwickshire have his Lancashire group at Edgbaston in an amusement beginning on June 26.

Britain will likewise play a day-night Test against Australia in Adelaide in November.