Test opener Jake Weatherald has outlined the chasm in mentality between Australia and England ahead of the pink ball challenge in the second Test at the Gabba.

Unlike England veteran Joe Root, who claims pink-ball cricket wouldn’t be part of the Ashes if it was up to him, Weatherald said the home team would embrace the day-night environment and different coloured ball.

“As group we see it as a great challenge. I don’t think anyone in our changerooms has mentioned anything negative, but just see it as a positive opportunity to do something different,” Weatherald told SEN.

“It is a hard thing. We love our pink-ball games over here in Australia.

“We see it as a great opportunity for the crowds to get involved and to provide a new spectacle for people.

“I think that is a testament to our group. The players we have in our group are just keen to get on with it and find a way to win the game so potentially that might be the difference.”

Root said he “personally” didn’t think a pink ball Test should be part of the Ashes but “it does add things”.

“It’s obviously very successful and very popular here and obviously Australia’s got a very good record as well. I can see why we’re playing one of these games,” he said.

“It’s part and parcel of (the series), making sure you’re ready for it. A series like this, does it need it? I don’t think so, but doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be one.”

Perth centurion Travis Head echoed Weatheald’s thoughts.

“We’ve been able to put out a good product and been able to play really, really well with it. Pink ball, white ball, red ball ... who really cares?” he said.

Weatherald, who made a two-ball duck and an quickfire but important 23 on his Test debut in Perth, said the pink ball “provides new challenges”.

“Batters, we crave new opportunities and new ways to showcase our skills,” he said.

“I think the pink ball provides that. Batting at night. The crowds. It’s like red ball cricket but under lights.

“It provides a different sense of environment around you. The pink ball obviously glares a lot more at night compared to the day.

“We have just found that the way the ball is structured, it behaves differently between night and day.

“Having that experience – we have played a fair bit of Shield cricket with it now – I have always quite enjoyed the challenge.

“I have enjoyed batting against the pink ball, it can get soft and provide some opportunities to bat for long periods of time.

“But it can also, early in your innings, be hard to face.”

Weatherald said he would prepare “as well as I can to being accustomed to the ball, both day and night conditions”.

“Obviously with their bowlers bowling quite fast and providing a lot more air speed, just getting used to that, and potentially a lot more swing in the game compared to Perth,” he said.

“Perth is nortoriously a bit more of a seaming wicket.

“We are going to go to the Gabba and it might be a bit slower. Still have that good bounce but a bit slower day one and day two and then speed up.

“I am sure the game will go a lot longer than the Perth game. That was an anomaly.

“But I am sure the game will still be played at high pace, obviously with the way they go about their cricket and us trying to find ways to navigate that, but also put some more pressure back on them.”