History will be made on November 22 when the Indian team and Bangladesh will walk onto the Eden Gardens’ ground in Kolkata to participate in the first-ever day-night Test match to take place in India. This will be the first time with the pink ball for both teams.

Meanwhile, other teams like England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistan, and Australia have already played at least one day-night Test previously and there have been some records made with the pink ball as well. It is an achievement for the new BCCI President Sourav Ganguly to convince both teams to play under lights.

Meanwhile, Indian batting great Sunil Gavaskar has called for the separate statistical categories for day-night Test matches. "The only thing I feel is that the stats for pink-ball Test cricket should be separately maintained from red-ball cricket,” he said.  

He called pink ball Tests as the future of Test cricket. "When day-night cricket started not much thought it would be successful but look at the huge following it has now, so there's no reason to believe that day-night Test cricket won't be successful too," said Gavaskar.

He further said, "Similarly, for limited-overs cricket also the stats should be separate for red-ball and white-ball, or some sort of distinction made so that future generations can know what was what."

The Kolkata Test match will be a spectacle for those who will witness the match with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee ringing the bell at the start of the match.

Talking about the Indian team’s chances with the pink-ball, Gavaskar said, "This is a magnificent Indian team which can find a way to win even if they are playing on the snow in Iceland or sand in the Sahara Desert. So it does not matter whether any of the players have played earlier with the pink ball or not."

(AFP inputs)