Quiz! Strange substitutes and backfiring sledges – how well do you remember these day-night Test matches?

Cricket's traditional status as a summer, and daytime, sport began to shift in the second half of the 20th century as Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket pioneered a shift towards the possibility of cricket being played in the evenings, under floodlights.

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The first official one-day international under lights came in 1979, soon after Packer had done the same for one-day and four-day matches ('Supertests'). Today, day/night one-day games are commonplace, as are night T20 matches.

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The first official day/night Test match was played in November 2015 between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide, 21 years after floodlit first-class cricket was first trialled in the same country, during the Sheffield Shield. As of July 12, 2025, 26 day-night Tests (23 men's and three women's) have been completed, with the 27th set to get underway between West Indies and Australia in Kingston.

In this quiz, there are ten questions on occurrences in and around these day-night Tests, along with one on Packer's 'Supertests' (which are not officially counted as Test matches). Can you get all of them right?

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How well do you remember these day-night Test matches?

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