THE summer’s Adelaide Test between Australia and South Africa in November will go ahead as a day-night clash.

South Africa’s Test players have changed their stance on pink-ball cricket, a breakthrough that will deliver Australia a second day-night Test next summer.

The Proteas had mounted concerns over visibility of the pink ball in the twilight sessions, raising the possibility the Adelaide Test would be shifted back to its traditional day timeslot following last year’s inaugural day-night clash.

But an end to the protest — understood to have come during the Indian Premier League, which staged its season decider on Monday morning — paves the way for Adelaide to stage a follow-up day-night Test to last season’s world-first clash.

The Adelaide Test is scheduled to run from Thursday, November 24, to Monday, November 28.

It means the 2016-17 summer will feature back-to-back day-night Tests. The Gabba will stage the first match of a three-Test series between Australia and Pakistan immediately following the Adelaide game.

Cricket Australia is yet to publicly announce South Africa’s overdue agreement to the timeslot, nor whether any cash inducement similar to the $1 million prizemoney used to convince New Zealand last year was needed.

“We remain optimistic that the Adelaide Test match will be played as a day-night match,” a spokesman said.

“After the success of last summer’s Adelaide Test, the anticipation in that market is huge.”

The South Australian Cricket Association was also awaiting confirmation yesterday.

“We’re hopeful the negotiations will conclude with us being granted a day-night Test,” SACA chief executive Keith Bradshaw said.

Adding weight to the day-night Test push is India’s eagerness to enter the pink-ball game.

The powerful Board of Cricket Control in India has committed to stage a day-night Test against New Zealand later this year, with suggestion the concept could be the gateway to a future three-Test pink-ball series.

Last year’s historic day-night Test between Australia and New Zealand at Adelaide Oval drew a staggering 123,000 fans in three days and delivered bumper TV ratings.

The public resistance voiced by the South African — and some Australian — players has clouded the timing of the Adelaide Oval fixture.

But it is believed an announcement from CA is imminent. Chief executive James Sutherland has long maintained confidence that South Africa would agree to the day-nighter.

“I had some separate conversations with colleagues from Cricket South Africa and the South African Players’ Association and I maintain my position that I continue to be optimistic about the Adelaide Test match being played as a day-night Test match,” he said in April.