New Zealand v England: Ollie Robinson says Test cricket doesn't need 'gimmick' day-nighters

Ollie Robinson has taken 60 wickets successful 14 Tests for England

England gait bowler Ollie Robinson says Test cricket does not request "gimmicky" day-night matches.

"There's thing incorrect with Test cricket to commencement with," said Robinson.

"I'm not a monolithic instrumentality of the pinkish ball. I don't deliberation we request to play these pink-ball games."

Day-night matches are communal successful limited-overs cricket and were introduced to the longest signifier of the crippled with the purpose of raising the illustration of Test cricket, some by expanding attendances and TV audiences.

There person been 20 day-night men's Tests since the archetypal successful 2015, played successful 7 antithetic countries by 10 antithetic teams.

They person proved fashionable successful Australia, wherever 11 day-nighters person taken place, each won by the location side, including 2 successful the Ashes bid of 2021-22. There person besides been 3 women's day-night Tests successful Australia.

England's men person played six day-nighters and person won conscionable 1 - their archetypal and the lone 1 they person played astatine location - against West Indies successful 2017. In the lone day-night Test they person played successful New Zealand, successful 2018, they were bowled retired for 58 arsenic portion of decision by an innings.

And Robinson, 29, believes England's enterprising benignant of cricket that has seen them triumph 9 of their past 10 matches is capable to pull supporters to the Test format.

"It is spot gimmicky. They're trying to get crowds and alteration the crippled a small spot but the mode England are playing Test cricket astatine the moment, I don't deliberation that needs to happen," said Robinson.

"We could instrumentality to however we're going and we're entertaining radical arsenic we are, truthful I'm not definite if it's necessary."

England travelled to Mount Maunganui connected Sunday, conscionable earlier ex-cyclone Gabrielle is owed to deed the Bay of Plenty, wherever the beach-side municipality is situated.

With dense rainfall and beardown winds acceptable to lash the country successful the coming days, preparations for the Test could beryllium earnestly affected. Even though the Bay Oval has writer nets that are nether cover, England are improbable to signifier connected Monday.

"We are good alert it could beryllium tricky to get retired there," said Robinson, who has taken 60 wickets successful 14 Tests.

"If we don't bid earlier Thursday I consciousness we've had bully mentation and we're acceptable to go."

With England attempting to regain the Ashes this summer, Robinson could enactment up alongside Steve Smith successful the County Championship aft the Australia batter's statement to articulation Sussex for 3 matches successful May.

Robinson came up against Smith down nether a twelvemonth agone and says helium sees the erstwhile Australia captain's accomplishment arsenic an accidental to learn, alternatively than a risk.

"People cognize however I vessel and what I do, truthful hopefully I tin conscionable usage it to my advantage," said Robinson. "He changed his method rather a lot, truthful immoderate benignant of hints oregon points I tin get from him could beryllium invaluable to us.

"I'm excited astatine the accidental to play with him. Hopefully I tin larn a spot much astir him.

"I recovered him awkward to vessel astatine at times, truthful it'd beryllium bully to ticker him a spot person and spot if I tin larn immoderate much astir his batting and ways to get him out."