Australia might find themselves back into a corner after a drubbing in Perth, but the second match in Adelaide might just be the perfect setting for them to fight back. After all, no team is more experienced than the Aussies when it comes to Pink Ball, and at the Adelaide Oval, they are a force to reckon with.
Here are a few stats that highlight how tough is it to crack the Aussie Adelaide day-night code.
7-0: Australia head into their eighth Pink-Ball Test in Adelaide, having won all seven of their previous contests at the venue.
1: Australia’s only Day-Night Test defeat across 12 matches came in their last appearance earlier this year against the West Indies, but that was in Brisbane.
0: None of the previous 22 Pink-Ball Tests have ended in a draw.
36.5: Mitchell Starc’s bowling strike rate for 66 scalps in the 12 Pink-Ball Tests. The left-arm pacer is the only bowler to register more than 50 wickets in D/N Tests.
4: Only four (Asad Shafiq, Faf du Plessis, Yasir Shah and Stephen Cook) of 105 visiting batters have scored a century in a Pink-Ball Test in Australia. Virat Kohli is the only Indian to score a half-century in what was the team’s only appearance in a day-night Test Down Under in 2020
36: India’s lowest-ever score in Test history infamously came the last time they played a Day-Night Test at the Adelaide Oval back in December 2020. The shocker came at a time India were actually in a dominant position in the match, having taken the first-innings lead.
