Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo says negotiating the twilight period against a pink-ball still in evolving stages of development during the next month's historic Day-Night Test against India in Kolkata will be a very tough challenge for both team's batsmen.

Having been coach of a South African team that played the traditional Adelaide D/N pink-ball Test in 2016, Domingo knows a thing or two of the difficulties his current wards would face. 

"It's a difficult ball to see when you are batting particularly in the phase between sunset and dark (twilight)," he told reports on Friday (November 1). "Guys struggle against wrist spinners because it is difficult to see the seam as it is not pronounced like red ball with white seam (stiches)."

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Even India's Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara, who countered the Duleep Trophy experiment of 2016, is cautious of how the pink ball might behave. 

"In the twilight period, I feel that maybe, sighting the ball could be a little challenging. (But) the more you play, you get used to it. It's always about experience and knowing how the ball is behaving," Pujara told PTI.  

The pink ball has been a topic of debates for long but what worries Domingo even more is the lack of any practice game scheduled for the visitors prior to the encounter at Eden Gardens from November 22. 

"The ball used to flake a lot easier. It gets softer and breaks up a little more. It does shape and swing for 10-12 overs and then it starts to lose that."

"There is a concern with three days between two Test matches here," Domingo added. "We have just got two practice days. So there's not a lot of time to prepare with it. I suppose it's the same for India. But it is a challenge that we are facing."

"It would have been great to have played a two-day game with the pink ball. When I was with South Africa, we played a two-day game before playing the day-night Test in Adelaide."

(Inputs from PTI)