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Ahead of tomorrow's D/N Test against Bangladesh, India's wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman foresees difficulties in picking the pink ball in Kolkata twilight
Wriddhiman Saha
Understandably, both Vettori and Saha identified twilight as being the most challenging period each day of the Test. While Vettori, Bangladesh's bowling consultant, sees it as something that needs to be tactically exploited, Saha is busy bracing for the 'sighting challenge', as a wicketkeeper and as a batsman.
"It will be somewhat difficult picking the ball at twilight and I'll have to be very alive to the challenge," said Saha, 35, reminding: "Unlike in the shorter versions, batsmen allow a lot more deliveries to go through to the 'keeper. And the ball wobbles when our pacers bowl."
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Saha, who wasn't among those that stayed back in Indore after the early end to the first Test to get some practice with the pink ball, acknowledged similar difficulties for other fielders as well.
"In white ball cricket, the feel doesn't change even when the ball gets old because of the black screen. We'll have to find out how it is when the pink ball gets old," Saha said.
Vettori, who admitted to gathering his impressions "only from watching TV", felt fielders square to the wicket may face the biggest challenge sighting
the ball.
Saha doesn't see too much into the "advantage" of having played a local league final at the venue three years ago with the pink ball. "We had played with the Kookaburra ball then and it's SG now; they are different and behave differently as well," he responded during a media interaction before Wednesday's practice in those conditions.
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