Indore: After thrashing Bangladesh 2-1 in the shortest format of the series, Team India and Bangla Tigers on Sunday reached Indore for the second leg of the tour.
India and Bangladesh will lock horns with each other for the two-match Test series starting on November 14. The series opener will be played in the Holkar stadium of Indore.
The second Test between India and Bangladesh will be played at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, which will be a day-night Test. It is notable that it will be the first time when Team India will play a day-night Test match.
According to the reports, the tickets for the day-night Test match have been sold out.
Meanwhile, Indian Test cricketers, including batting mainstay Cheteshwar Pujara and young gun Mayank Agarwal, was spotted practising with the pink balls at the M Chinnaswamy stadium beginning their preparations for the pink Test.
India and Bangladesh will play their maiden Test under the lights at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata from November 22.
While short-format players are locked in Twenty20 series with Bangladesh, Pujara and vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, all-rounders Ravindra Jadeja and Hanuma Vihari along with pacers Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma hit the National Cricket Academy (NCA) nets to get used to the challenge that pink balls will throw at them.
It’s been some days that the senior India cricketers started practising under NCA head and former skipper Rahul Dravid.
The early practice sessions will give Indians a fair idea of what they will encounter in the historic Test and is precisely the reason, all these players did not figure in the Mushtaq Ali Trophy matches for their respective states.
Sighting the ball in the twilight and handling reverse swing with the old ball under lights are the biggest challenges.
Skipper Virat Kohli is on a break and is yet to join his Test colleagues.
