Virat Kohli: India happy to play Australia in day-night Test during 2020-21 tour

India had previously held reservations about taking on the Aussies in day-night conditions away from home, declining the opportunity to play a pink-ball Test at Adelaide in 2018

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Virat Kohli is open to the idea of India playing Australia in a day-night Test during their next trip Down Under.

Kohli's side hosted their first pink-ball game last year when Bangladesh visited Eden Gardens in Kolkata, with the home team securing victory in little more than two days.

India had previously held reservations about taking on the Aussies in day-night conditions away from home, declining the opportunity to play a pink-ball Test at Adelaide in 2018.

Now, however, it seems opinion has shifted.

"We played the day-night Test here and were pretty happy with how it went. It's become a very exciting feature of any Test series, so we are absolutely open to play a day-night Test," Kohli said.

India are due to return to Australia at the end of this year for a four-match Test series.

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So could one of these games be played under floodlights?

"We are ready and up for the challenge," Kohli said.

"Whether it's Gabba or Perth, doesn't matter to us. We do have the skill sets as a team now to compete against anyone in the world anywhere. In any format of the game, whether it's white ball, red ball, pink ball."

The two teams are set to meet in a one-day international series, starting in Mumbai this week.

"The way they are playing their cricket now after Steve (Smith) and David (Warner) - after ball-tampering bans - have come back, it's pretty intense," Kohli said of the Aussies.

"They are challenging every team, they are dominating a few teams as well. So I think, we along with Australia are probably the top two sides in the world as far as balance is concerned.

"As players we are excited to play a full strength Australia in our conditions, also to test ourselves against the best.

"In the year of the World Cup as many games as we play together as a team, it's going to benefit us, especially the white-ball cricket."

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