BCCI confirms that India will play only red-ball Tests in their Australia tour

However, the BCCI disagreed to this condition and has officially informed CA that India will only play red-ball Tests as per tradition on their tour. Chief coach Ravi Shastri intimated the Committee of Administrators (CoA) that the team would require 18 months of preparation for a Day/night Test and that rules out the option of Day/night Tests for India. This information was intimated to Sutherland through acting secretary of the BCCI, Amitabh Chaudhary.

"I am directed to say by the Committee of Administrators that India would begin to play in the format only in about a year's time. Under the circumstances, I regret to say that the proposed D/N Test cannot be played and all Tests will have to have the conventional structure," Chaudhary wrote in his e-mail to Sutherland.