Cricket Australia's marketing boss has called for all pre-Christmas Test matches except Perth to move to a day-night format in the clearest sign yet the organisation is determined to move away from the traditional format as it seeks bigger television ratings and crowds.
The push comes on the same day the players union revealed widespread dissatisfaction among players with the ball in the day-night match in Adelaide. 
Ben Armarfio, head of marketing at Cricket Australia, called for more day-night games and backed Canberra's bid for more inter-national games, which puts Tasmania's prospects of hosting more Test matches under pressure.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting hit back, saying Hobart had been judged unfairly and should have a Test match every summer, and even floated the idea of an Ashes match being played there.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland placed pressure on Bellerive in the lead-up to today's Test and was backed by his marketing boss, who was asked on radio yesterday about advance ticket sales.
"It's not flash," Armarfio said on Sky Sports. "If you look back over all the years and the Tests that have been played in Hobart, (advance sales) are about 21,000.
"If we were to play any more Tests, regardless of whether we play them in Canberra or Hobart ... in non-school holiday time we've got to be serious about it.
"They've got to be day-nighters so people can watch from a TV and crowd perspective." ACT cricket has used all its influence to get international cricket to Canberra. "We've played a fair bit of international cricket in Canberra over the past few years and the great thing about the Canberra crowd is that they are very supportive," Armarfio said.
"They fill the grounds whether it be a PM's match or it's been -Afghanistan versus Bangladesh (during this year's World Cup). I think we had 13,000 at that." Ponting, who is from Launceston and was at Bellerive yesterday for the unveiling of a statue in his honour, defended his home venue.
"I think some of the criticism has been a bit unfair," he said. "What I would like to see is that Hobart and Tasmania get a Test match every year. It's pretty hard to make assumptions on Tasmanian cricket or people coming to watch Test cricket in Australia when there's no continuity about where the games are. The Tasmanian public are being judged on Test matches against lower-ranked teams. Let's have an Ashes Test match, let's have a Test match against South Africa, let's have a Test match against India here and then we can start making some judgments and comparisons with other venues around Australia." Cricket Australia Tasmanian board member Tony Harrison lashed out at the organisation's management earlier this week saying it was too focused on profit.
"The workers of Tasmania are competing with the fat-cat bureaucrats in Canberra who have the highest disposable income in Australia," Harrison said.
"I do know that [the ACT] have made a financial contribution to playing one-day international cricket there. So I suspect that may be the case [for a Test Match], but it hasn't been confirmed to me. There are certainly people in Cricket Australia management who don't necessarily look at it from a cricket perspective. They look at it from the dollars and cents perspective. But that's why we have a board of directors." While the day-night Test was a hit with television, it was not so popular with the players. The -Federation of International Cricketers Association released a survey that revealed 80 per cent thought the ball was not good enough and that it swung more at night and 70 per cent reported problems with seeing it at dusk but were generally supportive of the experiment.
"FICA commends the players for their adaptability with a significant change to the game," executive chairman Tony Irish said.
"We also recognise the amount of work that went into this game. FICA is supportive of innovations that can improve the spectacle and spectator interest, whilst maintaining the essence of the sport."The players still have concerns around the ball itself, and one must take into account that the Adelaide Oval conditions were tailored to suit the pink ball and help it last. This led to results that were uncharacteristic for an Adelaide Test match."