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Tezzbuzz|04-12-2024
Top 10 Pink Ball Test Trivia: The second test match of Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024 between India and Australia (IND vs AUS Pink Ball Test) will be played in Adelaide from Friday, December 6. This will be a pink ball test. This is the reason why today through this special article we are going to tell you about the 10 most special trivia to the Pink Ball Test.
10. The first Pink Ball Test was played in 2015 on 27 November between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide which was a low scoring thriller. This match was very exciting and Australia won by 3 wickets in the last match.
9. So far 22 test matches have been played with pink ball in which the result of every match has come.
That means no match ended in a draw or tie.8. So far, there have been two matches in the Pink Ball Test which ended on the second day itself.
7. So far in the history of Pink Ball Test, there have been only five matches which have reached the last day of the match i.e. the fifth day.
6. Australia is the only team to have played 10 or more pink ball tests.
5. The record of becoming the first player of the match in the history of Pink Ball Test is in the name of an Australian who is none other than fast bowler Josh Hazlewood. Hazlewood achieved this feat by taking 9 wickets during the Adelaide Test in 2015 against New Zealand. Not only this, he is also the first bowler in the history of Pink Ball Test to take five wickets in an innings.
4. Australia's win percentage in the pink ball test is 91.67, which is the highest compared to any other team. He has played 12 pink ball tests so far, out of which he has won 11 matches.
3. The first Test century in the history of Pink Ball Test is in the name of Pakistan's Azhar Ali, who scored unbeaten 302 runs against West Indies in 2016. Apart from this, the first half century is in the name of New Zealand's opening batsman Tom Latham.
2. The record of making the highest score in an innings in the Pink Ball Test is in the name of David Warner, who achieved this feat by playing an unbeaten inning of 335 runs against Pakistan in the year 2019.
1. India has played 4 pink ball tests so far, out of which they have lost only one. It is noteworthy that in the year 2020, they played this match against Australia in Adelaide itself, in which during the second innings, the Indian team was all out for 36 runs, the lowest total in its Test history.