Day-night Test cricket, complete with a bright pink ball, 2pm starts and floodlights after tea, has been played four times before.
Three of those matches have taken place in Australia and one in Dubai, both places where Test attendances have been on the wain.
West Indies have experience of the format having played against Pakistan in the UAE under the lights.
However, Azhar Ali’s unbeaten triple hundred ensured it was not a match Jason Holder’s side will want to remember and they will hope to avoid a similar fate at Edgbaston.
England team to face West Indies
Cook, Stoneman, Westley, Root (c), Malan, Stokes, Bairstow, Moeen, Roland-Jones, Broad, Anderson
West Indies team to face West Indies
Brathwaite, Powell, S Hope, K Hope, Chase, Blackwood, Dowrich, Holder, Roach, Joseph, Cummins
