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Just a day after Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur revealed that India would be playing a day-night Test against New Zealand later this year, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) have said that a lot of things still need to be finalised.

In fact, NZC head of cricket operations Lindsay Crocker revealed that the board and the BCCI had barely talked about the day-night Test and added that he only heard about the fixture on Friday.

“The first I heard of it was the news that broke overnight, but [NZC chief executive] David [White] maybe a little closer to it because he is in Dubai at the [ICC] chief executive’s conference,” Crocker told Stuff.co.nz on Friday. “Alphabetically, India traditionally sit next to New Zealand at these conferences so David would have no doubt talked to his Indian equivalent about the concept, but it would have been relatively fresh news to him as well because it certainly wasn’t a discussion we were having when David left a couple of days ago.

“India are quite definitive, which is quite exciting because they seem quite committed to the idea. We hadn’t considered that would be an option, so there is a bit of water to go under the bridge from our side. It is certainly very exciting for us to potentially be involved in the first Asian day-night [Test].”

New Zealand were involved in the first-ever day-night Test against Australia in Adelaide last November, but before they agree to face India in a day-night Test, Crocker made it clear that NZC want to know where the match will be held, what the venue’s floodlights are like, the pitch conditions and whether New Zealand will get to play any practice matches prior to the match.