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Hyderabad: India batsman Shikhar Dhawan cannot wait to play in a day-night Test match - as he feels the planned innovation will be good for cricket.

India might play a day-night Test against New Zealand later this year during the gruelling home season, which will feature 13 Test matches.

“We are excited for sure. I always believe change is always good. If things go well, it’s a new thing for batsmen, for the bowlers also. It’s going to be good to try our hands on the coming thing,” he said in Hyderabad.

Dhawan and his Sunrisers Hyderabad teammate, pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, said T20 has brought in major changes in cricket as the players are expected to be more quick and agile in the shortest format.

“It’s always a challenge. Test cricket is also a challenge. Every format has its own challenges. In Test cricket, you have to bowl for long periods. In T20, you have to mix things. But T20 makes bowlers smarter. They know how to change the things very quickly and how to change according to the batsman,” Kumar said.

“If you look at the first year of IPL, there were only limited things, bouncers, yorkers, slower. But now, in the last couple of years, if you see, many kind of slower balls, slower bouncers, these things make boys smart.”

Dhawan also chipped in that the shots being played in T20 are now making their way into Test cricket as well.

“Even for batsmen, because of T20, we are bringing the (IPL) shots into Test cricket. So, the revolution that has come in cricket, it has come after T20. Basically, we had to apply our minds,” he said.

Kumar said he has different approaches for his first spell in T20 matches and death bowling.

“(There are) different ways to approach first spell and death... I always try to swing the ball in the first six,” Kumar said.

Meanwhile, with planned movie releases on various big cricket names, Dhawan said he was not interested in acting - but that he would like Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar to play the role of him if a biopic was made on his life.