Pacers will excel in D-N Test: Kohli

Indore : India skipper Virat Kohli said the team is "very excited" to play their first-ever Day Night Test with the pink ball, which he feels will bring fast bowlers into play more. "It''s quite exciting," Kohli said.

"I think it''s a new way to bring excitement to Test cricket. We are all very excited about that. The pink ball I played yesterday, I felt it swings a lot more as compared to the red ball because there''s extra lacquer on the ball which doesn''t go away too fast. And the seam holds upright quite a bit.

"I think if the pitch has extra help for the bowlers then the bowlers will be in the game, especially fast bowlers, throughout the course of the Test match. I don''t quite know how the old ball behaves with the dew and the lacquer going off. It will be interesting to see how much the old ball does. With the pink ball, with the pitch having enough, the life in it will be a very important factor," the captain said.

India have not been too keen to play a Day-Night Test and even declined one in Adelaide last year. However, new BCCI President Sourav Ganguly expressed huge interest in the team taking to pink ball cricket as he felt that is the way forward.

In a recent statement, Ganguly even said it took Kohli three seconds to say yes to pink ball Tests."I hadn''t played with the pink ball before," Kohli said here.