Virat-led Indian cricket team continued its dominance in the longest format by defeating Bangladesh by an innings and 46 runs in the Day-Night ‘pink ball’ Test played at Kolkata’s iconic Eden Gardens. With this win, India wrapped up the 2-match Test series 2-0 and attained their seventh straight win in Test format to cement their place at the very top in the ICC World Test Championship points table.

The on-field rivalry between Australia Test skipper Tim Paine and India skipper Virat Kohli is known to all. Even last year, throughout the Border-Gavaskar series, both were engaged in verbal banter.

Team India – who had refused to play a Day-night Test against Australia last year – is scheduled to play a full series in 2020-21. Speaking during a presser after defeating Pakistan by an innings and 5 runs in Brisbane, Aussie skipper Paine took a cheeky dig at Kohli with respect to his consent on playing a Test match against Australia with a ‘pink ball’.

Paine hopes Kohli will say yes to play the pink ball test now that team India has played one against Bangladesh in Kolkata. The next Border-Gavaskar series is scheduled to be played between November and January, next year in Australia.

"We'll certainly try and we'll have to run that by Virat (Kohli). We'll get an answer from him at some stage I'm sure. That's where we like to start our summer and it has been for a long long time except for last summer.

"As I said we'll ask Virat and see if we can get his permission to play here and maybe even get a Pink-ball Test if he's in a good mood. So we'll wait and see," Paine said while addressing a press conference.


Virat’s Stance On Playing Day-night Test Against Australia

India captain Virat Kohli reiterated his stance on playing pink ball Test in Australia. He said provided they get enough practice games, they are open to doing "anything."

"There has to be planning for pink-ball games. We played on home conditions. You ask Bangladesh and they'd have liked a practice game before this match. Just because we knew the conditions and our bowlers are bowling so well, we don't really feel the challenge... When we play away from home, we'd figure out what could be even more difficult playing with the pink ball.

"A good practice game before that and enough time to prepare, and we're open to anything. You can't just play it on a short notice. If we get enough time to prepare, we're willing to do anything. We'll be quite open to it I guess," the skipper signed off.