Legendary Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne is expecting that Team India will be agreeing to play a Day-Night Test in Adelaide on their next tour of Australia. The ongoing historic second Test between India and Bangladesh, which started at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday, saw the two teams playing with the pink ball for the first time.
Warne congratulated BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and skipper Virat Kohli for agreeing to play day-night Testas he tweeted: “Congrats to you (Sourav Ganguly) and Virat Kohli on agreeing to play a day/night Test. I hope there’s another one next summer in Adelaide when India tour Australia on @FoxCricket – Would be amazing buddy!”
Congrats to you and @imVkohli on agreeing to play a day / night test. I hope there’s another one next summer in Adelaide when India tour Australia on @FoxCricket – Would be amazing buddy ! 👍 https://t.co/gNY95A3MU2
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) November 23, 2019
Warne found support from former England skipper Michael Vaughan, who expressed his desire of seeing India playing a Day-Night Test against Australia next winter. Vaughan had tweeted, “Well done Sourav… look forward to a couple in Aussie next winter.”
Well done Sourav .. look forward to a couple in Aussie next winter 👍👍 https://t.co/MgJxCanKgD
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) November 22, 2019
Before the start of the Kolkata Test, Kohli, however, said that pink ball Tests should not be the only way five-day cricket is played. The Indian skipper said, “This should not become the only way Test cricket is played. You can bring excitement into Test cricket but you can’t purely make Test cricket based on just entertainment.”
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Kohli-led India refused to play a Day-Night Test in Adelaide against Australia in 2018. But since Ganguly became BCCI President and pushed the issue, he said it took Kohli three seconds to agree to it. Team India is scheduled to play a four-match Test series in Australia starting in November next year.
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Kohli scored 136 off 194 balls with 18 boundaries to put India in a commanding position in the Day-night Test. India declared their innings at the score of 347/9 in 89.4 overs with a lead of 241 runs over Bangladesh. On the othe rhand, the visitors are reeling at 7/2 at Tea on Day 2 after getting bowled out for 106 inside two sessions on the first day on Friday.
