Test cricket may have seen the light in Adelaide but eyes will take some adjusting to what is left once the day-night circus leaves town for a more traditionally scheduled encounter against the West Indies.
The players from both sides spent the evening carving up the million-dollar prize pool offered as a bribe to be guinea pigs in the historic event. The winner was up for $600,000, the loser $400,000. A win for the Kiwis in this match was worth $100,000 as a 1-1 result saw the money split in half.
What was a great success for administrators, broadcasters and local hoteliers proved a significant test for the Australian players. 
Injury and under performance in some quarters have made things interesting. Just who will play against the West Indies early next month is grounds for some speculation.
Both Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc will be missing from the attack. The first retired. The second broken. Starc did not last an innings in his new role as leader of the pack, the bone in his foot cracking under the strain. He will not be available for another Test at home this summer.
Peter Siddle came into to the side because he is reliable, not a fancy sports car, more your Toyota Camry. Nothing fancy, but a vehicle that will start every time and make the longest of journeys without complaint.
Guess what? Siddle looks sore and struggled on the third day. The Victorian workhorse had a fitness test of sorts before play and moved gingerly about the field.
The good news was that Josh Hazlewood, who was previously under a "workload" cloud, bowled as well as he ever has. The 24-year-old took 3-66 in the first innings and followed up with a 6-70. He pitched the ball up, exploiting movement in the air and off the pitch against batsmen who could not leave well enough alone.
James Pattinson need only survive two days of Sheffield Shield cricket to waltz back into the side. He does so more for the memory of what he could do than for what he has done of late. That is not to say the Victorian is not a first class bowler, but to highlight the fact he has played two full Shield games this year.
He began well enough after a delayed entry into the game in Perth, removing Cam Bancroft who had started the summer as a Test hopeful.
The other stress fracture developing ahead of the Hobart match is who will and who should be batting at Bellerive.
The anxiety around the Australian innings when David Warner and Steve Smith made early exits yesterday is warning that the top order is not as sturdy as previous flat tracks have suggested.
Usman Khawaja is not expected to be fit until the Boxing Day Test which means somebody gets a chance in his spot.
The middle order marshes have too often resembled a swamp.
Shaun Marsh is there at the moment but is not comfortable. Before yesterday he had Test scores of 73, 1, 19, 13no, 11, 69, 0, 2 and 2. He and Adam Voges managed to settle nerves when the run chase got a wobble up and that is a bonus for the elder brother.
Mitch Marsh began the summer under instructions to prove he could bat a little better than he did in the winter. His scores before yesterday: 12, 27no, 0, 6, 3, 2, 34, 1 and 4.
The younger Marsh is batting with some apprehension. He is a clean hitter of the ball but does not have the game to bat at six, possibly not even seven. At this stage selectors could argue that anyone who can bowl half a dozen overs in an innings will be his equal for they are getting nothing from him with the bat.
The all-rounder will probably hold onto his spot because, as Shane Watson proved during his tenure, it is difficult to find anybody else who can do it. Moises Henriques is injured and so too James Faulkner.
The pink ball swung in the air and seamed off a pitch designed to protect its surface. This found out the batsmen on both teams. The Australians looked as brittle as they did against the Duke in English conditions.
They could not last the distance which is further indication that the modern Australian cricketer is a flat track bully. They filled their boots in Perth and Brisbane and have done so on batsmen friendly pitches every summer for some time.
If Brisbane too is to be granted a day-night match, local batsmen are going to have a few more challenges which probably won't be a bad thing.
Sheffield Shield wickets have been dumbed down ever since the Argus report. The number of centuries scored in that period has gone through the roof.
Cate McGregor P30