While a handful of Indian players have pink-ball experience, having played three domestic seasons of Duleep Trophy under lights, the Bangladeshi squad would be facing the challenge for the first time.
Indian cricket will finally embrace the pink revolution when Kohli's formidable team lock horns with a deflated Bangladesh in their maiden Day-Night Test starting here on Friday.
India is taking on Bangladesh in its maiden Day-Night Test match, which will be played at the iconic Eden Gardens stadium from Friday.
The current Bangladesh team have no pink ball experience even at the domestic level and they only had four sessions with the ball after the Indore Test.
Virat Kohli didn't hide his apprehensions making it clear that "loving Test cricket" should be a choice and not compulsion, thus, sticking to original form should be a priority.
Team India captain Virat Kohli said that playing the pink ball will be challenging in Kolkata but Team India is ready for the Day-Night Test challenge.
Sachin Tendulkar, who had earlier voiced his concern about tackling the dew factor, said the Indian cricket think-tank should do a postmortem after the match gets over.
According to BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, the second Test of the two-match series will be one to remember.
Wriddhiman Saha also singled out Mohammed Shami for praise and said he can be deadly on any surface due to his ability to get reverse swing.
Bangladesh spin bowling coach Daniel Vettori said that playing the Day-Night Test at the Eden Gardens could be a completely different experience as compared to normal Test matches.
India lead the two-match series following their innings and 130-run win in the opener. The second Test match starts from Friday.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said it was after a long while that the first four days of a Test match had been sold out.
R Ashwin hoped that the Pink Ball Test will mark the beginning of a new era in Test cricket and it can help in the rejuvenation of the longest format of the game.
The pink ball is different from the red cherry and as the sun sets, the ball swings more and batting gets difficult under the lights.
The Eden Gardens is set to host India's first-ever Pink Ball Test when India take on Bangladesh in the second and final Test of the two-match series, starting November 22.
The Indian team has arrived in Kolkata for the second Test against Bangladesh, which will be the first time ever that they will be playing a day-night Test match.
Taufel, who was present at the first ever pink ball Test in Adelaide as ICC Umpire Performance and Training Manager, said the umpires can use artificial lenses to have a better view.
"Basic things like toilets, seating, car parking need to be looked into, these are things that will draw," said Dravid.
India will be playing its much-awaited first Day/Night Test against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens from Saturday and there is a lot of curiosity regarding how the pink ball would behave.
Shami, who has been in terrific form, returned with the figures of 3/27 and 4/31 in the first Test at Indore to achieve his career-best ranking, said he intends on keeping things simple for the historic Test.
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