Kolkata’s Eden Gardens is likely to host the first ever day-night Test for both India and Bangladesh next month, provided the Bangladesh Cricket Board approves the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s proposal for the final game of the tour.
India are scheduled to play three T20Is against Bangladesh at home, beginning November 3 in Delhi. This will be followed by two Test matches to be played at Indore’s Holkar Stadium and Eden Gardens respectively. As per a report by ESPNcricinfo, the BCCI has already put forward the idea of hosting the second Test, scheduled to be played between November 22-26, as a day-night affair.
“We all are thinking about this. We will do something about this,” Ganguly had said on Friday, 25 October at the Eden Gardens at a Cricket Association of Bengal event. “I am a big believer in day-night Tests. Kohli is agreeable to it. I see a lot of reports in newspapers that he is not, but that is not true.
“The game needs to go forward and that is the way forward. People should finish work and come to watch champions play. I don’t know when that will happen, but it will.”
