India Cricket Team have stayed in Indore by two days and they have been doing a full-fledged training under lights from Sunday, ahead of the first pink-ball Test. Even the Bangladesh team has also done the same.
“We will specifically train during the twilight because we still don’t know what the ball will do during that particular phase,” a source close to the team management sid to PTI. “In the twilight period, I feel that maybe sighting the ball could be a little challenging. (But) the more you play, you get used to it. It’s always about experience and knowing how the ball is behaving.”
However, veteran India Ravichandran Ashwin had recently said that, at times, he is even getting a feel of an orange ball also.
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“Obviously, it’s a challenge to play with the pink ball. The ball has a lot more lacquer. I haven’t even bowled a single ball with the pink ball. Obviously I just saw it. Sometimes I don’t understand if its orange or pink, still coming to terms with that,” Ashwin shared.
“The batsmen will need to practice with different balls at the nets. A new pink ball, a 20-over pink ball and a 50-over pink ball and an 80-over ball. See how differently a new, semi-new and old ball behaves. Accordingly prepare your strategy,” he had expressed.
