With allowances made for daylight savings, television schedules and stopping Queensland’s curtains from fading, the inaugural pink-ball Test match at the Gabba started only two hours later than the old red-ball ones. A sense of novelty brought in several thousand more spectators than would usually watch Australia play Pakistan, but the predominance of shorts, thongs and broad-brimmed hats under a brutish sun was a reminder that this is a cricketing evolution, not revolution. Not a new version of Test cricket but the old one, just a little later in the day.
