Understandably, the cricketing world is eagerly awaiting the day/night experiment in Adelaide which gets underway tomorrow. Uncertainty is the word that best describes how we're all feeling, as an abundance of variables are added to Test cricket (which already has its fair share of variables) to try and make Test cricket a more easily digestible product for fans.

The concept of day/night Test cricket has come about as governing bodies look for ways to spice up the game and ensure that the same - if not more - amount of money is made from Test matches as with limited overs. We will be told that this experiment and any other 'evolutions' in Test cricket are for the betterment of the game but it's hard to ignore that the main benefactors will be governing bodies and their bank balances.  I have my own views on this specific matter which have been splashed throughout the Niche Cache's cricket pages for some time (cue the evil triangle of cricketing nations who care more about their own profits than growing cricket), yet I'm certainly not opposed to changes in Test cricket.

A day/night Test is a necessary experiment and it may turn out to be a permanent fixture of Test cricket, which has a long history of evolving to stay with the times or to enhance the game. If you tell someone that you love Test cricket how it is and don't like the changes that are coming our way then you will be viewed as being stuck in the past, not embracing change or changing times. A traditionalist.

The truth of the matter is that Test cricket is unique, you either love it or you don't. You either enjoy a day's play, watching intently all day or just having it on in the background (there's beauty in that), or you would rather watch paint dry. Chances are if you love Test cricket, you love Test cricket the way it is and many of the reasons why someone else might dislike it, are examples why you love it.

I have come to rest the hope for a balance. Change and adaptation are facts of life so it is stupid to think that Test cricket is immune to this, just because it's a game in which tradition and history play an important role. I do however love Test cricket and have no issues with the current format, nor do I have any issues with the quaint surroundings or crowds that Test cricket attracts in Aotearoa - it's part of the appeal to me, along with the big crowds that the Melbourne Cricket Ground attracts.

Test cricket isn't T20 cricket, designed to attract new fans to cricket as they get all the action without the 'test' aspect.

Test cricket is a game which must maintain the very essence which has drawn thousands, if not millions of fans in, caught up in the same love that I have for Test cricket. Evolution and changes shouldn't take away from this essence, even if these changes are deemed to be necessary and that's where the balancing act lies. How does Test cricket appease the very people who have made it what it is by either playing the game or supporting the game over the past 100 years, while embracing evolution?

Apparently there are people smarter than me who have the job of figuring that balance out.