The BCB has agreed to the BCCI's request for the second Test between India and Bangladesh to be played with pink ball under lights at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo confirmed the development at a press conference in Mirpur on Tuesday, a day before the side was scheduled to depart to India. Bangladesh who find themselves in the middle of chaos - their Test and T20I captain Shakib Al Hasan has been banned for two years and last week the players went on strike against the board - haven't named their Test squad yet.

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"As a coach and some players, we think it's a great opportunity and I don't think India have played a pink-ball Test before, Domingo said. "We haven't played a pink-ball Test and it's a great occasion at Eden Gardens and it will be a new experience for both teams. So, we're excited and it's going to be a great occasion under lights at Kolkata against probably the best team in the world. We're really looking forward to the challenge. We're not going to have a lot of time to prepare with the pink ball but it's the same for India."

One of the major concerns for Bangladesh is their lack of match practice with the pink balls that are used in day-night Tests - only one match has been played in the country with them, the first-class Bangladesh Cricket League final in February 2013. While Domingo acknowledged those concerns, he reckoned the "uncertainty" surrounding the pink-ball Test might tilt the scales in Bangladesh's favour.

"We know India are a good Test team, they're the No.1 Test team in the world but the uncertainty of playing a pink-ball Test - both teams don't quite know what to expect - could work in our advantage," he said. "The way the game's going, we need to try new things at certain times and we're excited by it.

"I've spoken to the players and there have been some concerns and some guys have said: 'Oh! we don't know, two [four] days between the first and second Test'."

Domingo, though, has been part of a day-night Test before in 2016, when he was the coach of the South Africa team that was facing Australia at the Adelaide Oval. Domingo hoped that experience could assist him in his new gig with Bangladesh.

"In my time at South Africa, we played a pink-ball Test in Adelaide, but we had a warm-up game before that and we had a few sessions with the pink ball leading into the Test match," Domingo recalled. "I have some experience when it has happened with the pink ball, so hopefully we can share the information and that's the advantage for us."

India and Bangladesh are the only Full Members apart from Afghanistan and Ireland to have not played a day-night Test yet.

The Eden Gardens Test is scheduled to begin on November 22, with the series of three T20Is (Delhi - November 3, Rajkot - November 7, and Nagpur - November 10] and the first Test, in Indore from November 14, preceding it.

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