The Zimbabwe cricket team toured South Africa in December 2017 to play a four-day Test match as a day/night fixture which started on Boxing Day.

[4][5] The Test match finished inside two days, with South Africa winning by an innings and 120 runs.

[11] South African cricketers Faf du Plessis and Dean Elgar expressed their concerns about a four-day Test match.

[16] Following their victory in the Test, AB de Villiers said that "the bowlers were exceptional on a very spicy wicket but we still needed to do the basics well".

[19] The previous shortest Test in the last fifty years, by balls bowled, was between Pakistan and Australia in October 2002, which was completed in 893 deliveries.