India suffered a dramatic batting collapse the last time they played a pink ball test in Australia but top order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara is confident lightning will not strike twice when they face England in familiar home conditions.
Going into the second innings of the first match in Adelaide in December with a slender lead, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins tore through India’s batting order to skittle the tourists for 36 — their lowest innings score in 88 years of test cricket.
The third test of the current England series, tied at 1-1, is a pink ball day- night affair in Ahmedabad’s Motera Stadium — only the second time India will have played one on home soil. “It’s a different ball game in Australia,” Pujara told reporters on Saturday.
“The ball was seaming around a lot, we had one bad session which led to disaster. Overall, in the first innings we were still in a dominating position.
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