BCCI To Take Decision On First Day-Night Test Soon

Amitabh Chaudhary, acting secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said the board would take a call on the much-anticipated matter of hosting the first-ever day-night Test in India.

India, currently sitting atop the Test rankings for over a year now, is one of the four Test-playing nations to have not played the pink ball cricket one. The other three are Ireland, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Ireland and Afghanistan, who were awarded the Test status last year, are yet to make their Test debut.

“This question has been popping up every now and then (about playing and hosting day-night Test) and rightly so. A decision will be taken sooner than later but not in the context of this Test match against Afghanistan,” said Choudhary while announcing the dates of Afghanistan’s inaugural Test in Bengaluru from June 14-18.

The inaugural day-night Test was first played in Australia in 2015 when the hosts locked horns against New Zealand. So far, eight day-night Tests have been played with pink-ball. Two of them were played last month — between England and Australia, and South Africa Zimbabwe. Australia have played the most number of games, having featured in four games while Pakistan, England, and South Africa have played two games each.

While India is yet to play the pink ball Test, the country has already witnessed it as the last two editions of the Duleep Trophy have been played with a pink ball. Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur had earlier declared that India would be hosting their first-day night Test against New Zealand in 2016, but that plan did not go ahead as planned.

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