Virat Kohli's Exclusive Pink-Ball Record and Nine Other Day-Night Test Facts

Virat Kohli began a bright century in the Perth Test, closing the door on a much-glorified win of 295 runs for India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy opener against Australia. The next antagonist for the Indian side would be a pink-ball test starting December 6 in Adelaide. 

India has not known anything close to fortune on the day-night front "subsequently" in Australia, with the Adelaide Oval four years ago recording the nation's lowest innings score of 36. That particular ball.

Thirty-two In its favor, India has a very strong win percentage of 75 in the scores of day-night Tests. Here are interesting statistics about pink-ball Tests as Rohit Sharma and his crew get ready to face the second match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy:

1. The Indian team has played four day-night test matches so far out of which team India has won three and lost only one match. 

2. Virat Kohli's knock of 136 off 194 in India's first pink-ball Test against Bangladesh, in Kolkata, on 22nd November 2019, is still the only century scored by an Indian player in day-night Tests. 

3. Virat Kohli and Joe Root shared the joint record for most runs by a captain in a pink-ball Test innings at 136. 

4. After 2024, Australia will not have a day-night Test for the first time in 12 years, the last being when it lost to the West Indies by eight runs in Brisbane. So far, it has a success rate of 91.67%. 

5. Adelaide Oval was one of the venues that staged seven day-night Tests between 2015 and 2022 and of course, Australia won them all. 

6. David Warner's 335 against Pakistan in Adelaide in 2019-20 and Azhar Ali's 302 for Pakistan against West Indies in Dubai in October 2016 are the two triple-centuries hit in day-night Tests. 

7. India has the lowest Test score in history, with 36 in December 2020, at Adelaide. This is also the lowest total ever recorded by any team in a day-night Test. 

8. It was really only England, 58 and 81, and the West Indies, 93 and 77, who were dismissed under 100 twice in day-night Tests. 

9. It stands as the highest team total in a pink-ball Test: Australia's 589/3 declared against Pakistan at Adelaide in November 2019. 

10. For day-night Test history, Axar Patel's match haul of 11 for 70 (6/38 and 5/32) is now the best, as said by India's silken left-arm spinner. By far, only two pacers have taken more than 10 wickets each in a pink-ball Test: Australia's Pat Cummins (10/62) and Devendra Bishoo of the West Indies (10/174)