INDIA TO PLAY WITH THE PINK SG BALL FOR THE DAY-NIGHT TESTS

 

After the success of day-night Test match between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval last year, BCCI is also taking every possible steps to make it a huge success in India.

 

In the 2016-2017 season India are to play 13 Test matches at home against different oppositions. India will kick-off the home season with a one match Test series against Bangladesh, that will going to be followed by three, five and four match Test series against New Zealand, England and Australia respectively. As per the sources one Test against New Zealand later this year and one against Australia earlier next year may be include as a day-night Test match.

 

Talking about the possibility of the day-night Test in the upcoming season BCCI President ‘Anurag Thakur’ said, “There are a lot of factors that need to be taken into account. Besides the dew factor, we have to also examine how the spinners will bowl with the pink Kookaburra on Indian pitches. These things we will get an idea (of) during the Duleep Trophy”

 

Seven out of 10 Test-playing nations currently use the Kookaburra ball, the Dukes ball is used in England and in the West Indies, while India uses the SG. Though Thakur said a pink SG ball remains a possibility in the future, it will have to match the Kookaburra’s quality.

 

Anurag Thakur said about the Pink ball: “We may ask SG to manufacture pink balls, but that has to be of the quality of pink balls that Kookaburra produces”.