New Zealand Cricket are adopting a wait and see stance on the issue of four-day test cricket.
With the inaugural pink ball, day-night test starting in two days, they, along with other test-playing nations, seem set to consider the merits of trimming a day off the standard test duration.
Notable internationals, led by former Australian captains Mark Taylor and Greg Chappell are supporters of the idea, which will be put to a high-powered MCC cricket committee in Adelaide today.
But there's a pile of work to go through before, and if, it comes to fruition.
"We've kicked it around a little bit here but we're yet to formulate a position," NZC's manager of cricket Lindsay Crocker said today.
"We know it's on the radar screen and we've discussed the possibility."
Crocker said there appeared to be positives and negatives to the idea, which proposes all tests should start on a Thursday and finish on a Sunday.
"Commercially it makes sense but you wonder what it means from a cricket point of view," he said.
The upsides include certainty over timing, allowing the ability to build in corporate days on the Thursday and Friday and family elements on the weekend.
However, for example, how would it affect the role of spinners, who traditionally come into the game to a greater degree over days four and five; and how much would the pitch have deteriorated by day four, as opposed to its condition with another 24 hours play on it.
"Those are questions we'd need to roll around a bit before we formulate a position," Crocker said.
NZC's chief executive David White is on the MCC committee as chief executives' representative.
The likelihood is the concept has some way to go to get approval from the International Cricket Council, who would take any recommendation from the MCC committee to the member nations for approval.
Among the big names of the recent past on that committee are former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, South Africa's Shaun Pollock and Kumar Sangakkara, one of the batting greats from Sri Lanka.
"It's something I would personally be encouraging them to look at," said Keith Bradshaw, former MCC chief executive, now South Australian Cricket Association CEO and leader in the push for the pink ball test.
"They're a very innovative, obviously world-renowned group, and I know it's something they would look at very carefully and consider."
There is a mood for change in the test game, aimed at getting crowds back and keep it relevant to modern, time-conscious society.
Taylor is suggesting days consist of 100 overs, up 10 overs from the current rules, therefore a four-day test would only lose 50 overs in total.
He's got support from batting great Chappell.
"I am a traditionalist but I am not that frightened by four-day test matches," Cricket Australia's national talent manager said.
"It was only the early part of last century they had unlimited days for test cricket, never-ending tests, they used to go seven or eight days.
"In this day and age you have to consider these things.
"I think any business, and sport is a business, I think more than anything else if you don't continue to be evolving you're likely to be going backwards. I think we should look at all these things."
Cricket Australia is already planning a second pink ball test next summer - Pakistan's board has been sounded out to be the second team to play a day-night match in Australia.
Bradshaw supports the four-day test concept.
"With day-night test cricket, with four-day test cricket, with a test championship, I think it's a case of let's fish where the fish are," Bradshaw said.
