India, a country notoriously slow to adopt new ideas, has now embraced the concept of day-night Test matches and it will surely not be long before twilight five-day games are a regular feature on the sub-continent.
India and Pakistan are set to play floodlit Tests this year while Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are considering following suit pending the results of domestic trials.
India's all powerful board of control, the BCCI, has traditionally been suspicious of anything new and ensured the world's second most populous nation was the last of the major cricketing powers to embrace the Twenty20 format of the game.
That embrace has quickly turned into a passionate love affair courtesy of the Indian Premier League but the BCCI is still resisting the Decision Review System (DRS) with all its considerable might.
It insists it will not accept the technology, which is aimed at reducing umpiring howlers, until it is foolproof. As a result DRS is not used in any bilateral series involving India.
However, the commercial prospects of day-night Tests haven't been lost on the world's richest cricket board and it announced last month it would host a floodlit Test against New Zealand when the Black Caps tour later this year.
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur said the controversial pink ball used in such contests would be trialled in the domestic Duleep Trophy to help captain Virat Kohli and his team prepare for the day-nighter.
"There are lots of factors that need to be taken into account. Things like dew factor, how the spinners bowl with the pink Kookaburra (ball) on Indian pitches," Thakur said.
The dates and venues of the series against New Zealand have yet to be confirmed but Kolkata's Eden Gardens has been put forward as a possible venue by Cricket Association of Bengal president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly.
"We want to play host to a pink-ball Test in the future," said Ganguly. "We will try to host a local four-day match with the pink ball under the floodlights as a Test."
Turnout for Test matches in India generally lags far behind the full houses that can be expected for one-day internationals and some IPL fixtures.
Even those in the BCCI suspicious of change, therefore, were enthused by what they saw at Adelaide Oval last November when Australia and New Zealand played out the first floodlit Test.
