South Africa are hesitant to play a day-night Test amid their voyage through Australia as they have no involvement with the pink ball, the Proteas' players affiliation boss has said.
South Africa will visit Australia in a three-Test arrangement in the home summer and Cricket Australia reported a year ago that they needed one of the installations to be a day-night match.
Australia facilitated New Zealand in the main day-night Test in November keeping in mind the match drew tremendous group and huge TV gatherings of people players on both sides whined that the ball was difficult to see now and again.
The pink ball has been created for day-night Test cricket, supplanting the customary red ball which turns out to be excessively troublesome for batsmen, making it impossible to see after dim.
"Our players are not for playing the amusement under those conditions," South African players' affiliation Chief Executive Tony Irish told The Australian daily paper.
"The primary reason is we feel distraught. Not one of our players who will contend in that Test has played Test match cricket, or any cricket, with a pink ball.
"The hesitance to play is an indication of the amount of significance the South African players place on the arrangement against Australia," Irish included.
New Zealand players had comparable hesitations about a year ago's apparatus in Adelaide however were given an A$1 million ($777,000) sweetener by Cricket Australia to confer.
Coordinators hailed the Test a win, in spite of Australia wrapping up triumph in three days.
Adelaide Tests are customarily all around upheld by neighborhood fans and interstate guests yet the aggregate participation of 123,000 was a record in the city for a non-Ashes installation.
Australia, who have additionally utilized the pink ball as a part of household Sheffield Shield matches, host Pakistan in a three-Test arrangement in the returning home summer, with a match at Brisbane's Gabba ground tipped to be played under lights.
Cricket Australia will declare their late spring plan on Wednesday and declined to remark on South Africa's reservations about the pink ball.
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