Former Indian captain and current president of Cricket Association of Bengal, Sourav Ganguly, came up with his own observation on the most talked about subject in cricket – the day-Night Test. Ganguly, India’s most influential cricketer, backed the idea of Day-Night Test as the trajectory of Test cricket’s is down-hill. “It needs a bit of innovation and I think day-night cricket is the best way forward,” said, Sourav Ganguly.
Ganguly is India’s most successful Test captain. India has won 11 Tests matches, in overseas, under his captaincy.
The first Day-Night Test match was played at Adelaide Cricket Ground where Australia defeated New Zealand.
The match was embraced by millions of people on TV and people who left office in the evening went to watch the match under flood lights at Adelaide Oval. Even umpire’s error led to change the course of the match as at a time New Zealand had a grip on the match but TV umpire’s wrong decision helped Australia to get an advantage.
Recently, players like David Warner said day-night Test is great for cricket, but pink ball is not. The first Day-Night Test ended inside three days that questioned the validity of pink ball. Players after the match complained about the ball as it was visible that players couldn’t identify the length of the ball and trajectory of the ball. Due to the reflection of floodlight many catches were dropped.
However, taking the cue of the first Day-Night Test, now Test playing nations are all set to organise Day Night in their country. Like New Zealand, India will host a Day Night late in 2016.