India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag Thakur

[rahul1117kumar]

In order to raise the ever dwindling number of spectators in the stadium, the BCCI is all set to host its first-ever Day/Night cricket Test with pink ball when New Zealand tour India later this year. “We have decided that we will play one Day/Night Test match with pink ball against New Zealand later this year. Before that Duleep Trophy will act as a dress rehearsal for the Day/Night Test match,” BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur told a select gathering of mediapersons at the BCCI’s headquarters in the capital today.

Thakur said that the main objective of the Duleep Trophy will be to check how the pink kookaburra behaves under the light in sub-continental conditions. “While we have not zeroed in on the venue, there are lots of factors that need to be taken into account. Things like dew factor, how the spinners bowl with the pink kookaburra on Indian pitches. These things we will get an idea during the Duleep Trophy,” said Thakur.

It is expected that all leading Indian players will play in that Duleep game in order to get an idea and also give a feedback to the board before they go ahead with the Test match. While Test matches in India are played with ‘SG Test’ balls, Thakur said that in this upcoming match it will be ‘Pink kookaburra’ that will be used. “We may ask SG to manufacture pink balls later but that has to be of the quality of pink balls that kookaburra produces,” said Thakur.

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[Sarkar]

Good. No more match in early morning

 

[sathishbabu4u]

RE: India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag...

Good. No more match in early morning

It is New Zealand tour India later this year , not india tour of NZ..
Day matches in india only suits to NZ timings, like england matches for india timings

 

[ABCDEFGH]

RE: India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag...

Good News. hyahya



The main thing , In Day-Night Tests is that whole 90 Overs can be bowled, "Bad Light" scenario won't happen

 

[Sarkar]

RE: India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag...

It is New Zealand tour India later this year , not india tour of NZ..
Day matches in india only suits to NZ timings, like england matches for india timings

When I said India tour of Nz bro ? Normally test match starts at 9:30 AM and end at 5 which is bad timing bcoz of office hours [emoji19] if it is Start at afternoon and upto night then it will be good. That's what I said bro

 

[sathishbabu4u]

RE: India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag...

When I said India tour of Nz bro ? Normally test match starts at 9:30 AM and end at 5 which is bad timing bcoz of office hours [emoji19] if it is Start at afternoon and upto night then it will be good. That's what I said bro

...is 9.30AM early morning for u ?.. sorry for wrongly understand

 

[rinshad]

RE: India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag...

Good News. hyahya



The main thing , In Day-Night Tests is that whole 90 Overs can be bowled, "Bad Light" scenario won't happen

If fled light become strikes????

 

[ABCDEFGH]

RE: India to play its first Day & Night Test against New Zealand this year: Anurag...

If fled light become strikes????

That can also happen in ODIs and T20s
Moreover it will a technical issue
But bad Light is a Natural issue

 

[Pugazhbalaji]

good news

 

[Basil]

Lot of modalities to be taken care of before Day-Night Test, says NZC official

Wellington, Apr 22 (PTI) New Zealand Cricket’s Head of Operations Lindsay Crocker said that there are a lot of modalities that needs to be taken care of before the much-awaited Day/Night Test match against India becomes a reality.

While BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur has announced that India are set to make their ‘Pink Ball’ debut against the Kiwis during their home series later this year, the New Zealand board still wants to know more about it. “India are quite definitive, which is quite exciting because they seem quite committed to the idea. We hadn’t considered that would be an option, so there is a bit of water to go under the bridge from our side. It is certainly very exciting for us to potentially be involved in the first Asian day-night Test,” Crocker told Stuff.co.nz


“The first I heard of it was the news that broke overnight, but (NZC chief executive) David White maybe a little closer to it because he is in Dubai at the ICC chief executive’s conference. Alphabetically, India traditionally sit next to New Zealand at these conferences so David would have no doubt talked to his Indian equivalent about the concept, but it would have been relatively fresh news to him as well because it certainly wasn’t a discussion we were having when David left a couple of days ago.”


According to ESPN Cricinfo:”Among the factors to be considered before a confirmation from the NZC were the stadium to be chosen for the match, its floodlights, the playing conditions, and practice opportunities available to the New Zealand players before the match.” White was expected to return during the weekend from Dubai and Crocker said discussions about the match could progress “fairly quickly”.

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