page_title: Day/night cricket in England
section_title: Day/night cricket in England and Wales 2006–
hierarchical_section_title: Day/night cricket in England / Day/night cricket in England and Wales 2006–
caption_attribution_description: Middlesex vs Kent at Lord's
context_page_description: Floodlit Cricket is cricket played under floodlights at night. The use of floodlights in cricket matches has helped to bring much investment into the game both at a national and an international level since it began in 1977. Today floodlit cricket is played in most of the test playing nations although some nations only started hosting day/night matches in the last 10 to 14 years.
context_section_description: In 2006 One Day Cricket in England was given a major revamp by the ECB. This led to quite a few changes for day/night cricket in England. For the first time Day/Night matches were played in the than known C&G Trophy although as in the Twenty20 Cup matches were limited to the counties who owned paramount floodlights who were joined by Hampshire in becoming the fifth county to install paramount floodlights at the Rose Bowl. Also 2006 saw the launch of the NatWest Pro40 League which replaced the National League however under the new format the counties only played other once in their divisions as opposed to home and away. This meant that the number of day/night matches played in the competition was reduced because the counties had fewer home matches to play with. The story stayed the same for 2007 but for one thing. On 10 September 2007, ten years after the first day/night matches were played in England Lord's finally got to stage its first game under floodlights with a match between Middlesex and Derbyshire, a match which Middlesex won by 4 wickets.
  In the 2008 Season a total of 55 cricket matches will be played under floodlights in England and Wales, seven in the Friends Provident Trophy, nineteen in the Twenty20 Cup, twenty three in the NatWest Pro40 League and 2 matches in the Twenty20 Floodlit Cup. Also England will play three One Day Internationals under lights at Cardiff, Headingley and at Trent Bridge which will also became the sixth ground in England and Wales to have paramount floodlights and the England Under 19 Team will play one match under lights at Hove and Lord's will stage its second floodlit match in August.
  In 2011, Kent hostest the first competitive County Championship match to be played under floodlights at their St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury against Glamorgan.
caption: Twenty20 match at Lord's Middlesex vs Kent 27 May 2009
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