Australia may have backed themselves into a corner after the defeat in Perth, but the second game in Adelaide could be the perfect setting for them to fight back. After all, there is no team more experienced when it comes to the pink ball than Australia, and at the Adelaide Oval, they are a force to be reckoned with.
Here are some statistics that highlight how difficult it is to crack the Aussie Adelaide Day-Night code.
7-0: Australia are heading into their eighth pink-ball Test in Adelaide, having won their previous seven contests at the venue.
1: Australia’s only day-night Test loss in 12 matches came in the last match 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 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 of the 105 visiting batsmen (Asad Shafiq, Faf du Plessis, Yasir Shah and Stephen Cook) have scored centuries in pink ball Tests in Australia. Virat Kohli is the only Indian to score a fifty in the team’s only appearance in a day-night Test Down Under in 2020.
36: India’s lowest score in Test history infamously came the last time they played a day-night Test at the Adelaide Oval in December 2020. It was a shocking time when India was actually in a dominant position in the game, in the first match. – Lead of innings.