FLOODY HELL

Broad fears day-night Test will leave Aussies in the pink for Ashes glory

- BY RORY DOLLARD

STUART BROAD says England's hopes of levelling the Ashes are at the mercy of a pink-ball “lottery”.

The defeat inside two days in Perth means the tourists are in desperate need of a positive result in Brisbane next week, where they will be playing a day-night match at the Gabba.

The concept is still a relative novelty at the highest level - this is just the 25th men’s Test under lights in a decade - but is played most frequently Down Under.

Broad has played in all seven of England's previous floodlit games, including two losses on the last tour of Australia four years ago.