India Embracing Day-Night Pink Ball Tests As Asia Warms Up To Idea

India, a country "notoriously slow to adopt new ideas, has now embraced the concept of day-night test matches and it will surely not be long before twilight five-day games are a regular feature on the sub-continent," according to Amlan Chakraborty of REUTERS. India and Pakistan are "set to play floodlit tests this year while Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are considering following suit pending the results of domestic trials." The commercial prospects of day-night tests have "not been lost on the world's richest cricket board and it announced last month it would host a floodlit test against New Zealand when the Black Caps tour later this year." The dates and venues of the series against New Zealand "have yet to be confirmed but Kolkata's Eden Gardens has been put forward as a possible venue" (REUTERS, 5/11).