Curious to see what pink ball does in twilight interval: Mithali Raj

India skipper Mithali Raj is “curious” to see what the pink ball does, particularly within the twilight interval, as the ladies’s staff goes into its first-ever day-night Test towards Australia with solely two days of follow.
With the 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Australia and ODI collection to observe, the staff has obtained little or no time to organize for the Test, starting right here on Thursday.
India had at some point session on Tuesday and can have follow below lights on Wednesday.
“To be very honest. I don’t have the experience of playing with pink ball. It is going to be my first experience as well. I am quite curious to see around that period (twilight) when they say that it’s going to be a little difficult. I can only say, when I experience it,” stated Mithali forward of the landmark fixture.

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The pink ball, which has an additional coating of lacquer for retaining shine and visibility, tends to skid greater than the pink ball and strikes so much below lights.
Though India misplaced the previous ODI collection 1-2, they have been in a position to break Australia’s 26-match successful steak and fought onerous within the second and third recreation.
Mithali stated the staff has gained a whole lot of confidence from that efficiency.
“The staff is certainly assured. Playing the perfect aspect earlier than the ODI World Cup is nice preparation. I do perceive the primary recreation was a little bit of flash cricket we performed and I actually needed to have a tough speak with the staff and the ladies actually responded very nicely.
“We were looking to post a big total that was our target and we did that. “The team is quite excited. It’s a different experience for us to play with the pink ball in a day night game. Usually the Test is played in the day and what we played against England was with the red ball. So it is going to be very different,” she stated.
In their first Test in nearly seven years, India did nicely to eke out a draw towards England.
India and Australia final performed a Test in 2006 and Mithali stated each groups “have come a long way since then”.
“In the one day format, we posted good totals. It was a very good and a tight series. Overall, women’s cricket globally has come a long way and it is only going to grow.”
Australia have a formidable tempo assault regardless of the absence of some skilled bowlers. With the emergence of Meghna Singh in ODIs, Indian tempo division has additionally been bolstered.
“It must be one the perfect tempo assaults Indian staff has had. With the expertise of Jhulan, younger speedster Meghna Singh her first collection has been very spectacular and Pooj Vastrakar, a who made a comeback after two years, we try form her as an all-rounder.
“I am happy to see the progress they have made and results are there to see for everybody,” Mithali added.
Hopefully, it’s begin of one thing particular: Meg Lanning 
“It is really exciting, India obviously is a great cricketing nation, they love their cricket and to have them playing a Test match is super exciting.” Lanning stated on the pre-match media interplay.
“We’re all trying ahead to kicking off the primary of many to come back, hopefully it’s not only a one off and we will go and play a Test in India over the following few years.
“I think that would be a really cool thing to do so, hopefully it’s just the start of something really special,” stated Lanning.
Vice-captain Rachael Haynes has been dominated out of the sport with a hamstring harm, dealing an enormous blow to the Aussies.
“It’s an enormous loss. Both on and off the sector, she’s clearly a really skilled participant, an necessary a part of our staff so very disenchanted for her and for us.
“The good factor is we’ve obtained some choices there. It will rely slightly bit on the wicket. There is a inexperienced tinge there, and that doubtlessly brings a few of our pace-bowling all-rounders into the body.
“We just need to decide whether we want to go with the specific batter position or with the all-rounder position so we’ll make the call after training today,” she stated.