Test cricket is not in the pink of health and pink-ball day-night Tests could just be the right medicine to revive it, feels former Australia batsman Dean Jones.

India will enter the pink-ball arena when they take on Bangladesh in a day-night Test at the Eden, beginning November 22.

“Most people can’t watch Test matches during daytime because they have got to go to work. Then on weekends there will be family functions and all that. But with day-night Tests, they would have the opportunity to watch the game at night, when they come back home from work, and with the family too,” Jones, a ‘Select Dugout’ expert on Star Sports, said.

Jones proposed that the ICC should ensure that at least one day-night Test is played in every series. “I am hopeful that the ICC will get more involved in the future. For every series that has three or five Tests, there should be one day-night Test.”

Jones also had a solution for the dew problem. “I would have different times when the ball is changed. For me, in a day-night Test the ball should be changed after 50 overs, if the ball gets wet change it, if the colour of the ball is fading and it is hard to see, change it. You’ve got to be flexible.

“Cricketers are very conservative people, they will find what is wrong about something before they like it. With Test cricket, we need to experiment. That’s why we have the World Test Championship, that’s why we have the pink-ball Test.”

Before the two-Test series, Virat Kohli’s India will play three T20Is versus Bangladesh. Jones explained why the T20I series would be very important for the touring team.

“Bangladesh have been dealt a big blow with the Shakib-al Hasan episode. Confidence is everything. If Bangladesh can have a good T20I series and maybe even win a match or two, the confidence they would get from that would flow into the Test series as well.”