indore even as the focus before this series has been mostly on the colour of the ball the second test would see both india and bangladesh play with a pink ball under lights for the first time one couldnt help but notice the rather unusual colour of the pitch for the first test between the teams at the holkar stadium here which kicks off from thursdayits not often in india that a visiting team is greeted by a pitch with a tinge of green on it its rare to hear an indian captain says confidently on the eve of the opening test that he is seriously considering playing three seamers is indias highly successful predictable formula to dish out turning tracks and win test matches at home finally changing is indian cricket undergoing a cultural transformation from spin to paceone would be tempted to think so even if indias opponent in this case happen to be bangladesh ranked a lowly no 9 they gave a good account of themselves in the t20 international series even beating india for the first time however bangladesh could find themselves at sixes and sevens while facing the inform menacing trio of mohd shami umesh yadav and ishant sharma minus their suspended captain shakib al hasan and prolific opener tamim iqbal the visitors led by a new captain in mominul haque would need an inspired performance to give a fight to worlds no 1 test teameven if they get past the seamers the spin duo of ravichandran ashwin and ravindra jadeja is always a threat in these conditions having returned to the test team with a bang against south africa the determined ashwin has his tail up again while jadeja can now be classified as a worldclass allrounder and perhaps the best leftarm spinner in the gameit is however the sight of the india pacers running in and creating havoc and panic in the opposition batsmen which excites one these days shamis sharp incoming deliveries and umeshs short balls were quite a handful for the south africans while ishants disciplined line and length proved a good foilin shakib and tamims absence bangladesh would bank heavily on captain mominul mushfiqur keeperbat liton das and mahmadullah to counter the hosts rampaging bowling attack he is the first bangladesh batsman to average above 40 2613 runs4147 so you would expect him to do well but then far better batsmen have crumbled in indiabangladesh would also need to find an answer to indias batting might while rohit sharma looks unstoppable in these conditions his opening partner mayank agarwal looks to be equally dangerous cheteshwar pujara is due for a big one after enduring a rather ordinary run in the past two series skipper virat kohli would be eager to increase his tally of hundreds and double hundreds kohli had slammed a double hundred in the last test between the two sides in february 2017before they enter the unknown pink ball territory at the eden gardens india would want