Kohli ‘excited’ by day-night Tests

For Kohli, day-night Tests are both an experiment as well as a forward-looking step in the game.

Players Association Chief of New Zealand, Health Mills said that an agreement for this had been signed because Brendon McCillum’s team is ready for this and can see the bigger picture benefits of this.

Wagner claimed five wickets in last weekend’s day-night tour match at the WACA.

He added he might have to get the inside word from Steve Smith.

“As a captain, I am delighted Ashwin is in my team along with Amit Mishra wro brings in lot of variations for us and Ravindra Jadeja, who is very very consistent”.

Nearly 53,000 rock fans packed the stadium on Saturday night for the concert, many standing on the oval where cricket’s inaugural day-night Test will be played.

As to who the pink ball would help more, faster or spin bowlers, the jury is out.

“In this day and age you have to consider these things”, the former cricketer said. Some believe full-pitched deliveries are harder to pick up, while some have lamented the inability to judge spin by focusing on position of the seam moves as the ball comes down to them, as they can with the red ball.

For similar reasons, some Sheffield Shield players have suggested a sensible day-night rule tweak would be for the second new ball to become available earlier than the 80th over.

“Each time the pink ball has sort of behaved a little bit differently depending on what the wicket has been like and the conditions”.

The Idea of Day Night test matches has been given by CA chief executive James Sutherland.

It was meant to deal with the white ball’s loss of colour towards the end of an innings.

Irish said the players are very mindful of the possible commercial benefits of the pink-ball experiment and therefore were prepared to try to implement it.

“Our job is to win the games, score runs, take catches, and take wickets”.

Instead, Williamson spent time in the indoor nets with a pink ball, working on aspects of his game.

“It was nice knowing we had a couple of days off. then I got through 10 overs against WA and it [the back] was alright”.

“It’s still a learning process (bowling with the pink ball)”.

“This is not new”, said Howard. “If you can go out there and express yourself, in a good situation and a bad situation then the pressure is obviously shifted on the other side”, said Kohli.

How batting teams have fared against the new ball in night sessions this season. West Indies lost 1-2, but they were given a motorcade farewell.