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A pink-ball Test is like officiating 5 back-to-back ODIs: Umpire S Ravi

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 11/21/2019 9:45:34 AM

Surat, Nov 20 India's only Elite Panel umpire in recent times S Ravi had to forcibly change his "sleeping pattern" in order to adjust his body clock to the needs of the first-ever Day/Night Test between Australia and New Zealand back in 2015. Umpiring in the first-ever pink ball match at Adelaide four years ago was not easy and Ravi prepared well in advance that included "late-to-bed and late-to-rise" pattern to prepare his body for the rigours of the game. The 53-year-old former cricketer from Chennai first attended an ICC workshop in Dubai two months in advance and officiating in a two-day tour match between New Zealand and Western Australia XI at Perth, six days before the etched-in-history Tran-Tansman battle at the Adelaide Oval from November 27. Describing D/N Test as like standing in a five back-to-back ODIs, Ravi said he had his "usual butterflies" but was well-prepared. "A pink-ball Test is like officiating five back to back ODIs. More or less same timing. It's like umpiring five ODIs back-to-back. So your preparation should be such that you think that you're standing in five ODIs back-to-back," Ravi told PTI in an exclusive interaction from Surat, where he's officiating in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Super League for the domestic T20s.