India Will Not Play Pink Ball Test in Australia: BCCI Confirms to CA

The Board of Control for Cricket in India  (BCCI) has officially confirmed to Cricket Australia (CA) that Team India will not play day-night Test when India will tour Down Under later this year. However, Australia cricket board was pushing the Board to play a pink ball Test.

Meanwhile, the Indian think-tank informed Committee of Administrators (CoA) wanted some more time to make their debut in pink ball form.

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Indian team management has asked for a period of 18 months to play their maiden day-night game.

India doesn’t want to play any Pink ball Test match.

Consequently, BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary forwarded the message to CA’s CEO James Sutherland. However, the Australia Board wanted the first pink ball Test to be scheduled at Adelaide from December 6-10,

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“I am directed to say by the Committee of Administrators that India would begin to play in the format only in about a year’s time. Under the circumstances, I regret to say that the proposed D/N test cannot be played and all tests will have to have the conventional structure,” Choudhary wrote in his e-mail to Sutherland as quoted by PTI.

However, Australia holds a great record in all the pink ball Test matches on their home soil. They hold a 100% winning rate as they have remained unbeaten in the newly-introduced form.

Well, it had become a norm for the touring teams to play at least one day-night Test match in Australia.

Sutherland had told an Australian radio station that India doesn’t want to play under lights as they want to win the Test series in Australia.

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Meanwhile, India has never savoured a series victory on the Australian soil.

On the other side, Team India players don’t have any exposure of playing with the pink-ball cricket. Only Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara from the current Indian team have played a day-night Test in Duleep Trophy.

India will begin their Australia tour in December.

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