The changing face of cricket

Instead, the travelling county would be given the choice of whether to bat or bowl first - or request the toss take place as it has done throughout cricket history.

Here, Press Association Sport looks at some cricketing traditions that have changed or been modified in recent times.

WHITES

Cricket was always a game where the players wore white flannels, but change came with Kerry Packer's controversial World Series during the late 1970s and a move towards coloured kit. From around 2000, coloured kit became commonplace in one-day internationals and then Twenty20 cricket. Traditional whites are now only seen in Test cricket, while they also continue to be worn in the English county game and other domestic cricket overseas.

FLOODLIT CRICKET

Packer's World Series innovated cricket under lights, with Adelaide staging the first day-night match in 1977 between a WSC Australia XI and WSC West Indies XI. Although World Series cricket ended two years later, by the mid-1980s most one-day internationals in Australia took place under floodlights. English cricket followed suit two years later, and floodlit cricket is now as regular an event as night following day.

CHANGING THE BALL

Cricket's traditional red ball was one of sport's most familiar sights, and while it is still used in Test and county cricket, the one-day format now sees a white ball used, primarily to help a team batting second under floodlights in day-night games. A pink ball will be used in Test cricket later this week when Australia and New Zealand play the first day-night Test match at Adelaide Oval.

TECHNOLOGY

Cricket used to be a sport when the two on-field umpires made every decision, but these days they are assisted by all kinds of technology, including Hawk-Eye and Hot Spot, in addition to third umpire replays. The Decision Review System (DRS), meanwhile, was introduced seven years ago in Test cricket, whereby a batting or bowling team has an option of referring an on-field umpire's decision to the third umpire. Each team has up to three referrals per innings.

TWENTY20 CRICKET

Launched in England 12 years ago, Twenty20 cricket has proved a box-office success. A 20 over-per-innings game was proposed, lasting just over three hours, and it has gone on to revolutionise cricket worldwide with competitions like the Indian Premier League and Australia's Big Bash among those to attract big crowds, while England's Twenty20 finals day is a regular sell-out.