BCCI clarified that India will not play any day/night Test match during their tour of Australia at the end of this year. Another SC appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) also confirmed that news by claiming that Indian cricket team has refused to play the pink ball Test match.
India will tour in Australia in this November to play 3 T20Is, 4 Tests and 3 ODIs. Cricket Australia (CA) has been desperately trying to make BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) agree for playing a day/night Test match during the four-match Test series.
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But, BCCI administrator Vinod Rai clarified that India will not play any day/night Test match in that tour as Indian cricket team is not ready yet.
Vinod Rai told AFP, “Yes, it’s pretty clear that we are not playing a day-night Test in Australia, no doubt about it. We have been saying this all along that we are experimenting with pink ball cricket in the Duleep Trophy and that’s it for now.
“Nobody can put a gun on to our head and say play (day-night Test). There have been doubts about the pink ball itself in Duke and Kookaburra.”
On the other hand, a CoA member revealed that Indian cricket team has refused to play the pink-ball Test match as they are not ready to face the pink-ball in day/night Test match.
That member quoted according to The Indian Express, “The CoA spoke to Ravi Shastri (the Indian team head coach) on 12 April and Shastri categorically mentioned that he has consulted with the team and the team is not ready to play pink-ball cricket just now. So a question of playing a day-night Test match in Adelaide just doesn’t arise.”
Meanwhile, CA CEO James Sutherland recently claimed that the hosts should have enough freedom to schedule the day/night Test match.
Sutherland told SEN Radio, “I think personally the home country should have the right to schedule matches as it sees fit and start them at whatever time of day they want.”
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Speaking about BCCI’s disagree to play the day/night Test match during India’s upcoming Australia tour, Sutherland claimed that India wants to win this series while Australia is currently unbeaten in the day/night Test matches.
Sutherland said on that, “To be frank, I think they want to come out here and beat us. There’s a sense, or a reality, that Australia has won each of the pink-ball Test matches that have played in Australia and there may be a sense that it gives us a bit of an advantage.”
