Mumbai: Newly-appointed BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, who has been an ardent supporter of day-night Tests, made his intentions clear when he said Virat Kohli was agreeable to India playing day-night Tests. In a historic move, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) agreed to Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) proposal to host a day-night Test in the upcoming 2-Test series between the two teams. India will thus host their first ever pink-ball Test at Eden Gardens, Kolkata from November 22.
“The BCB has confirmed and we are having a pink-ball Test. It’s a good development. Test cricket needs this push. Me and my team were bent on it and thanks to Virat (Kohli) also, he agreed,” Ganguly said.
“It’s just my job, that’s what I’m here for. Because I’ve played this game for so long. It’s great. I think common sense is important. And I think it’s a great move for Test cricket and hopefully it will bring back crowds to the ground,” Ganguly said just after the landmark development.
Newly-appointed BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, who has been an ardent supporter of day-night Tests, made his intentions clear when he said Virat Kohli was agreeable to India playing day-night Tests.
The first day-night Test took place in 2015 between Australia and New Zealand. Pakistan, West Indies, South Africa, England, Sri Lanka and even Zimbabwe tried out the concept over the next four years, while India resisted.
India received an offer to play the Adelaide Test under lights during the Australia tour late last year, but they declined the proposal citing lack of practice. India had trialed the concept in the Duleep trophies of 2016, 2017 and 2018 before reverting to red ball this year.
Pink SG balls the most talked about issue:
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly wants board representatives to immediately speak to the company and get balls ready by the next 10 days so that both the Indian as well as Bangladesh team has enough time to prepare for the Day-Night Test which gets underway at the Eden Gardens from November 22.
There were also talks about using Dukes or Kookaburra balls(Pink) if the SG balls are not being ready in due time.
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Conditions and dew factor:
As per the Eden garden's curator, the historic match will start around 1 pm, subject to BCCI's clearance.
"Since it's an early start, the day will get over by 8-8:30 pm. Mostly the dew factor comes into play post that time.
Ganguly, however, assured that conditions won’t be a problem.
“We will sort this out and there would be no dew. We have day/night ODI's after all and dew spray is used,” he said.
It couldn't have been more iconic venue to commence the day-night test in India Eden Gardens only makes it better.
"It's going to be a great occasion under lights in Kolkata against one of the best team of all formats. So we're really looking forward to the challenge. For sure there will be challenges because we're not going to have a lot of time to prepare with a pink ball," Domingo(Bangladesh coach) said.
Bangladesh tour of India: Three T20Is - New Delhi (November 3), Rajkot (November 7), and Nagpur (November 10) and two Test matches - Indore (November 14-18) and Kolkata (November 22-26).
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