Bangladesh’s spin bowling coach Daniel Vettori said that early sunset in Kolkata could pose a big challenge for the batsmen during the upcoming historic Day-Night Test against India starting on Friday. Both the team will play their first-ever Day-Night test from Friday.

“I think the pink ball is relatively normal in the day, the challenge will be how much of the Test is played under lights. Obviously, the sun sets quite early here. I think 4:30 pm. That will be the time we will see the pink ball come into play,” he said.
“My experience is only from watching on TV and it seems to do a little bit more during twilight dusk. So I think that’s going to be a big sighting period of the Test match. That’ll be the period of the Test the teams will try to do technically a few different things. I think that the final one and a half session would be very interesting,” Daniel Vettori added.
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As the pink ball is expected to help the pace bowlers more, India captain Virat Kohli is expecting to keep the winning strick intact.

“All fast bowlers are really excited. Coming to grips with the balls, I think the SG pink ball is slightly a bit different. Most guys have limited experience of Kookaburra ones. I think there’s a lot of excitement and optimism around,” he told.
“If I recall rightly, spin hasn’t come into play as much. It has been about seam bowlers. But I still think that spin bowlers play a big part. In the first two sessions, spinners could really be important. Spinners can play a big part in a pink ball Test. I think it will be slightly different here because of how early the sunset is. Spinners will probably have more of a holding role with the extra seamer,” Daniel Vettori concluded.