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Jasper Bruce

Pink-ball batting master still prefers red-ball cricket

Marnus Labuschagne has shone against the pink ball but would prefer to face England with a red one. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

Marnus Labuschagne has scored more centuries in day-night Test matches than any other player but admits he would prefer the second match of the Ashes was a standard red-ball fixture.

After rival middle-order batter Joe Root suggested the Ashes did not need a day-night Test, Labuschagne took a similar line speaking to media on Monday.

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