An eventful fortnight in Indian cricket
Sportstar|December 14, 2019
While the Eden Gardens ground was full, it would be interesting to find out how many actually turned up after office hours. For, that’s the main intent of the day/night Test — to have office-goers come and watch the game
Sunil Gavaskar
An eventful fortnight in Indian cricket

The pink ball Test was a resounding success with a huge crowd turning up. The game itself was pretty disappointing as Bangladesh were blown away once again by the Indian pacers. There was nothing in the pitch for the pacers but so good has their rhythm been and so good has the catching in the slip cordon been that the Bangladesh batsmen just had no clue. Sadly, their application and determination left a lot to be desired too. Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Mohammad Shami bowled well, but they themselves will admit that this was not the sternest of opposition for them. Still full marks to them for not taking their feet off the neck of the oppositions and not allowing the lower order batsmen to delay the end of the innings as has happened in the past.

While the ground was full it would be interesting to find out how many actually turned up after office hours. For, that is the main intent of the day/night Test — to have office-goers come and watch the game after work.

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