Adelaide’s inaugural day-night Test will start on November 27 between Australia and New Zealand, CA coveting the prime-time TV slot and prospect of fans flocking to Adelaide Oval after work.

Kookaburra has tried to sculpt a suitable ball for the occasion – something that is visible under lights but behaves similar to a red ball.

Scepticism and criticism has been in steady supply since.

Victoria allrounder Hastings contributed some more last night after day one of his side’s Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland at the MCG.

“It’s getting better .. but there is still a fair bit of work to do,” Hastings said of the pink pill.

“The main issue for me is the hardness of the ball, it just doesn’t stack up compared to the red ball…the ball doesn’t move off the straight.

“It’s tough work. All you got to do is set straight fields, it’s quite a boring brand of cricket when you do have that pink ball.”

Hastings, who has played one Test and 13 ODIs for Australia, grabbed one of his two wickets with the second new ball. However, he felt the pink ball was largely unthreatening and stopped swinging after approximately 15 overs.

“Maybe if we change the ball at around 50 or 55 overs and get a new one or a semi-new one, it might be a better contest,” Hastings said.

“The discolouration was a little a bit of a factor .. but for me it would just be that hardness.”

Hastings added that reverse-swing was possible, but far less effective than usual.

“When you get a red ball to go reverse, it’s actually quite hard and it can zip off the wicket,” he said.

“With the pink ball if you get it to go reverse – we didn’t really have that zip.”

Victoria captain Matthew Wade wanted the ball changed in the 74th over, but the umpires turned him down.

“Some of the fielders square of the wicket couldn’t really see it that well,” Hastings said of the request.

“I don’t know whether they’ve had a directive not to change the ball.”

Hastings added he felt ok at mid-on, but “it could well be” a safety issue for others.

Queensland opener Scott Henry, who scored 141, was more supportive of the ball.

“The seam was difficult at stages, only because the ball was old. I think that’d happen if it was white or red,” Henry said.

“It was fine.”

Michael Klinger, who will resume on 129 for Western Australia in Hobart, suggested it took 15 or 20 minutes to get used to the pink ball at night.

“Once you bat for that period of time you pick it up pretty well,” Klinger said.

But ex-Test quick Ryan Harris says it’s time players accepted the radical change.

“It’s here to stay,” he said of the pink ball.

“It’s new, it’s like when Twenty20 came in – no one knew how it was going to go…players had to adapt to it and that’s what they will have to do here.”

Harris admitted the pink ball didn’t hold up well on trial in New Zealand’s one-day tour match romp over Prime Minister’s XI last week, albeit on an abrasive Canberra pitch. Criticism of the ball’s deterioration at Manuka Oval prompted calls for the inaugural day-night Test against the Black Caps in Adelaide to revert back to a regular day fixture and a red Kookaburra.

Harris admitted it was tough to gauge the pink ball in Canberra where he was PM’s XI assistant coach, but does not believe the new coloured ball would prove the difference in November’s third Test.

“The results in Canberra weren’t great, but that wicket was very abrasive – it wasn’t the wicket you would get at Adelaide,” Harris said of the pink ball.

“It will be a challenge…the Kiwi guys have done a lot of experimenting with it in New Zealand and a couple of games here – our guys have had bits and pieces.

“But it’s not a massive advantage…they will both encounter problems with it or ways that they use it, it might not swing as long or might not reverse, that sort of stuff.”

-AAP