Rahul Dravid was among the former India captains and players facilitated at the historic occasion of Day 1 of country's first-ever D/N Test against Bangladesh this Friday (November 22) at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. 

Dravid couldn't help but rave about the atmosphere created by a jampacked crowd and wished for more such turnouts for Test match cricket in India. 

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"Brings back some lovely memories and I'm so happy to be here," the legend said. "When you have 45-50,000 people it is amazing. It is an incredible atmosphere and lovely to see this kind of crowd. It is superb and what more can you ask for? I hope we can do this more often."

As it turned out, the visitors were bundled out for just 106 all out with Ishant Sharma taking 5/22 in the first one and a half session itself. 

"In the first two hours today we saw the Bangladesh batsmen struggle. They were out for 106. Before there was the effect of the new ball in the morning, now you will have the effect in the evening session," Dravid said before India responded by posting 174/3 until stumps with Cheteshwar Pujara (55) and Virat Kohli (59*) making half-centuries. 

Dravid was one of the first people to give thumps up to the idea of D/N Tests when he played a first-class game in 2011 for MCC against Northamptonshire in Abu Dhabi and scored a ton. 

"Would have loved (to play Day-Night Tests). I always wanted to play in front of 40,000-50,000 people. When we played at the Eden Gardens in 2001, you had 100,000 people watching and that gave us joy," he concluded. 

(Inputs from IANS)