KOLKATA: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly on Saturday slammed those who were behind India failing to agree to play a Test match under lights in Adelaide last year against Australia, saying it took skipper Virat Kohli three seconds to say yes to Day-Night matches. Ganguly met Kohli on October 24, a day after he was formally announced as the president of BCCI, and the first thing he said was the need to play pink ball Tests. “I don’t know what is the reason they did not want to play (Adelaide Day-Night Test). I met Virat on the 24th, met him for an hour and the first question was that we need to have D/N Test cricket. The answer in three seconds was yes let’s go ahead and do it,” Ganguly said at the launch of former international umpire Simon Taufel’s book titled “Finding The Gaps” here. “So I really don’t know what’s happened in the past. What is the reason and who was involved in the decision. But I found him absolutely acceptable to play D-N test matches. He realises I think that empty stands in Test matches is not the right way forward,”… Read full this story
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