India pacer Mohammed Shami said altering the length of the ball to keep the batsmen guessing will be the key for the first-ever day-night test. He has been in a prolific phase as he returned with the figures of 3/27 and 4/31 in the first Test at Indore which helped him to achieve his career-best ranking.

“What one thing bowlers should do is keep an eye on the wicket and how is it behaving, so what I do is as the pitch gets slower I keep pushing myself and when I notice that the batsman is uncomfortable I go over the top. So the length has to keep changing,” Shami said on Nerolac Cricket Live on Star Sports.

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Meanwhile, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar asked Mayank Agarwal to be careful as the opposition would be better prepared to counter him.

“He is enjoying Test cricket, this is his first year and hopefully he keeps scoring on the second year also because in the second season there is a lot more data available of you to the opposition. But he has been batting beautifully, the way he balances himself without falling on the offside as he plays so straight and his movement of the front and back foot has been fantastic making him the man in form who is full of confidence,” Gavaskar said.

Former India opener Gautam Gambhir trusted the bowling unit and thinks they will do well.

“If you see other oppositions, some teams have got quality fast bowling attacks, some have quality spinners but if you look at this Indian side, they’ve got two quality spinners, three quality seamers plus Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar who are not in the playing 11. So they’ve got proper 5 seamers plus Kuldeep Yadav which makes it 8 quality bowlers all capable of running through batting line-ups and that is why the Indian side has been able to take so many all-outs in the last 2 years,” he concluded.