Pink Ball Test Match: The second match of this Toughest Rivalry series will be a Pink Ball Test match at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide. This was the same venue where the team of Men in Blue registered their lowest-ever Test score under the leadership of Virat Kohli in December 2020.
After India won the first Test match, the visitors should concentrate on winning the series. They still need to win the next four matches of this five-match red ball series. To qualify for the World Test Championship final in 2025, Rohit Sharma and his men should win this series by a margin of 5-0, 4-0, or 4-1.
India also played a warm-up match with the Pink Cherry at Manuka Oval in Canberra. The first day of that practice match was washed out and on the second day, which ended yesterday, each team got 46 overs per side. Harshit Rana continued his good run in the Pink Ball Test Match. He bagged four wicket haul to his name.
With the bat in hand, KL Rahul still continued to open the innings even when HITMAN Sharma was available. Sharma Ji scored just three runs when he batted in the middle order while Shubman Gill who also missed the opening red ball match, scored a well-made half-century in the Pink Ball Test Match.
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Pink Ball Test Match: Virat Kohli Is The Only Indian Batter To Score A Century In The Pink Ball Test Match –
The King, Virat Kohli has dominated every format like a boss. He also scored a century in the 1st Test Match at Perth, which overtook the God Of Cricket, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 6 red ball centuries in Australia while King Kohli now has seven Test centuries to his name Down Under.
India’s first ever Pink Ball Test Match was played in 2019 against Bangladesh at the iconic venue of Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The Bangla Tigers had no answers to India’s dominance in that two-match Test series. The visitors of that series, Bangladesh lost the Pink Ball Test match by an innings and 46 runs.
India was asked to bowl first in that match as the visitors, Bangladesh won the toss and batted first. But this decision from the Tigers went horibbly wrong as they were bundled out for just 106 runs in their 1st innings. In reply, the Men in Blue declared their innings for a huge score of 347 runs for the loss of nine wickets.
The King, Virat Kohli scored a magnificent century in that Pink Ball Test Match and he became the only Indian batter till now to achieve this feat. The King scored 136 runs in that Pink Ball Test Match. Bangladesh continued their poor show with the bat in hand in the second innings as well. The Tigers were all out for just 195 runs and also lost the series by a 2-0 margin.
