Day-Night (Day/Night) match is to be played between India and Sri Lanka from Saturday i.e. 12 March 2022 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. This match will be played with pink ball. A total of 18 matches have been played with the pink ball so far. Of these, 10 Australia has played the most. India and Sri Lanka have played 3 each pink ball test. In all the Pink Ball Tests played so far, no match has been able to last for a full five days (450 overs).
Not only this, so far only two teams Australia and Pakistan have been able to score more than 700 runs in a pink ball test match. Pakistan scored a total of 702 runs in both the innings of the Pink Ball Test against West Indies in Dubai in October 2016. He won that match. At the same time, Australia scored 703 runs in both the innings of the Pink Ball Test against England in December 2021.
Out of the 18 Pink Ball Tests conducted so far, 12 matches have yielded results on the second or third or fourth day, only 6 matches have been able to stretch till the fifth day. He could not complete the entire over of the fifth day. Out of these, the Australian team has been involved in the maximum 4 matches. He played 4 Pink Ball Tests in which he won before the completion of the fifth day’s play. Apart from this, the teams of England and Pakistan were also involved in such 3-3 matches.
Two Pink Ball Tests have been played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) so far and the result of both came before the end of the fifth day’s play. In one, Pakistan won by 56 runs against West Indies, while in one they lost to Sri Lanka by 68 runs.
Overall Pakistan has played 4 Pink Ball Tests so far. In this, he has won only one, while he has to face defeat in 3. Pakistan played 2 matches in Australia and had to face defeat in both. However, the result of the match played between 15 and 19 December 2016 in Brisbane, Australia came 2 overs earlier.
England has played 6 pink ball test matches so far. of these he has 3 Australia have played against. He had to face defeat in all three matches played against Australia. However, the results of all three matches came only on the fifth day (a few overs before the end of the game).
India’s 3 pink ball Out of the test, 2 matches lasted only 3 days, while the result of one match came in 2 days. The Pink Ball Test between India and Bangladesh started on 22 November 2019 at the Eden Gordon in Kolkata and won it by an innings and 46 runs on 24 November.
The day-night match between Team India and Australia started in Adelaide on 17 December 2020. Its result also came on 19 December 2020. The day-night match between India and England started in Ahmedabad on 24 February 2021 and India won it by 10 wickets on 25 February itself.