Cricket umpire Dickie Bird once said, "to play in all light, barring something close to Armageddon”. During India's first Test against South Africa in Centurion, bad light ended play on Day 2 with the ...

In Test cricket, play cannot start, is immediately suspended, or cannot restart if the on-field umpires agree the light conditions are "dangerous or unreasonable". That wording comes from section 2.8 ...

Matthew Griffith receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research council. This is the next article in our ‘Light and health’ series, where we look at ...