CALCUTTA (India): India and Bangladesh face off in a historic first day-night Test match here at the Eden Gardens from Friday.
It is also the first ever day-night Test hosted in India.
Here are some statistics that you need to know and a list of players who impressed with the pink ball.
- First ever day-night Test was between Australia and New Zealand in 2015
- First day-night first-class match in India was played in 1997
- The Eden Gardens Test will be the first time pink SG balls will be used
- In India, the first pink-ball match was the four-day CAB Super League final between Mohun Bagan and Bhowanipore.
- The first ever day-night first-class match with the pink ball was played in West Indies in the late 2000s between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.
- India will become the ninth international side to play a day-night Test match.
- Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, South Africa, England, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe have already played with the pink ball.
- The India vs Bangladesh second Test will be the 12th match in the history of the day-night Test cricket.
- Australia have played the maximum number of pink-ball Test matches (5) and maintained a hundred per cent win record.
- Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali is the leading run-scorer in day-night Tests with 456 runs from six innings.
- Australia’s Steve Smith is the second best with 405 runs from eight D/N Test innings.
- Azhar also leads the chart of highest knocks in the pink ball Test cricket as he scored 302 (not out) against the West Indies in Dubai in 2016.
- England’s all-time leading Test run-scorer Alastair Cook has a second-best score (243) against West Indies in Birmingham in 2017.
- Pakistan’s Asad Shafiq is the only batsman to score centuries twice in day-night Tests.
