India Women to play their first ever day-night Test

India Women will make their Day-Night Test match debut when they tour Australia in September 2021. The Test is scheduled to be played at the WACA Ground in Perth. It will take place in the middle of 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is in the same tour.

A Cricket Australia press release stated that the ODIs will take place at North Sydney Oval (September 19), and The Junction Oval (September 22 and 24). The Day-Night Test is scheduled to be played from September 30 to October 3. The tour will conclude with 3 T20I matches at North Sydney Oval. The T20Is will take place on October 7, 9 and 11.

The Aussie women cricketers will then disperse to play WBBL and will be back for the Ashes to follow

BCCI secretary Jay Shah had also tweeted confirming the day-night Test.

JUST IN: India Women to play in a pink-ball day-night Test in Australia later this year, announces BCCI Secretary Jay Shah. pic.twitter.com/x8S4HqTlNG

— ICC (@ICC) May 20, 2021

This will be only the second Test in women’s cricket to be played under lights with a pink ball. The first ever day-night Test took place between Australia and England in Sydney in 2017. It ended in a draw. Ellyse Perry top scored in the Test with a scintillating 213 not out.

Later, Australia will host England too for a Test at the Manuka Oval in Canberra as part of the Ashes series.

Australia are the current T20 World Cup champions, having beaten India in the final of the 2020 edition. In ODIs, they are on a 24-match winning streak. India has never beaten Australia in a Test match in Women’s cricket.

“There is no doubt that T20 cricket has been, and will continue to be, a key driver of growth for women’s cricket globally,” Nick Hockley, Cricket Australia’s interim CEO, said. “That said, it is testament to how far the game has come that we are in a position to host two women’s Test matches against the might of India and England, which we know will prove popular with cricket-lovers right around the world.”

This will be India’s first Test in Australia since the Adelaide Test in 2006. In all, Australia and India have played nine Tests, with Australia winning four of them and the other five being drawn. The teams first met in a Test match in Perth in 1977, then played four Tests in India in 1984, followed by a three-Test series in Australia in 1990-91 and then the Adelaide match in 2006.