<p class="title">India's refusal to play a day-night Test in Adelaide is "selfish" and hinders efforts to reinvigorate Test cricket, Australia's former Test batsman Mark Waugh said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India have declined to play their maiden day-night Test against Australia, leaving the December 6-10 series-opener in Adelaide a day match, and remain the lone frontline team not to have featured in one.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's a little bit selfish from India's point of view because we need to revitalise Test cricket," Waugh said on Australia's Big Sports Breakfast radio show.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Day-night Test cricket in some countries is going to be one of those ingredients that could transform Test cricket back to where it should be."</p>.<p class="bodytext">India's reluctance is attributed to their pink-ball inexperience but Waugh, who will step down from his role as national twenty20 selector in August, is baffled by their refusal given the depth in the Virat Kohli-led squad.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Their team is pretty well suited to day-night cricket, they've got a string of fast bowlers, so they don't just rely on the spinners, and their batsman are technically very good as well," Waugh explained.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"So for the greater good of the game, I would have loved to have seen that as a day-night Test."</p>.<p class="bodytext">India play three twenty20 internationals, four Tests and three one-day internationals in their tour of Australia from November to January.</p>
<p class="title">India's refusal to play a day-night Test in Adelaide is "selfish" and hinders efforts to reinvigorate Test cricket, Australia's former Test batsman Mark Waugh said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India have declined to play their maiden day-night Test against Australia, leaving the December 6-10 series-opener in Adelaide a day match, and remain the lone frontline team not to have featured in one.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It's a little bit selfish from India's point of view because we need to revitalise Test cricket," Waugh said on Australia's Big Sports Breakfast radio show.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Day-night Test cricket in some countries is going to be one of those ingredients that could transform Test cricket back to where it should be."</p>.<p class="bodytext">India's reluctance is attributed to their pink-ball inexperience but Waugh, who will step down from his role as national twenty20 selector in August, is baffled by their refusal given the depth in the Virat Kohli-led squad.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Their team is pretty well suited to day-night cricket, they've got a string of fast bowlers, so they don't just rely on the spinners, and their batsman are technically very good as well," Waugh explained.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"So for the greater good of the game, I would have loved to have seen that as a day-night Test."</p>.<p class="bodytext">India play three twenty20 internationals, four Tests and three one-day internationals in their tour of Australia from November to January.</p>