Team India are set to face off against Australia in the second Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 at the Adelaide Oval. It will be a Day/Night Test match with the Pink ball. The team has already registered a 295-runs victory in the first Test match at the Optus Stadium in Perth. In this article, let us take a look at how the Indian Cricket Team has performed in the Pink ball Test matches that they have played so far.
India played their first-ever Pink ball Test against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata in 2019. Virat Kohli, who was the captain of the team in that match, scored a spectacular century and became the first Indian batter to score a century against the Pink ball. Team India put up an extraordinary display led by Ishant Sharma, who picked up nine wickets across two innings as India won the match by 46 runs.
India have won three out of the four Pink ball Test matches they have played
The second Pink ball Test was a forgettable one for the Indian team. It was the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21 at the Adelaide Oval. India registered their lowest-ever total in Test cricket (36/9) in the second innings of the Test match as the batting order was blown away by Josh Hazlewood. India lost that match but came back strongly in the series to register a historical 2-1 series victory.
The third Pink ball Test match for India was against England at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad in the third match of the home series. It was one of the shortest Test matches in history as Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin ran through the English batting lineup. India registered a 10-wickets victory.
India played their fourth Pink ball Test match against Sri Lanka at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru in 2022. Shreyas Iyer stood out with the bat and Jasprit Bumrah shone with the ball as India registered a 238-run victory. So, India have won three out of the four Pink ball Test matches they have played. Meanwhile, Australia have won 11 out of the 12 Pink ball Test matches that they have played.
