Sanjay Manjrekar knows a thing or two about day-night cricket. We are not only referring to the countless one-day internationals he has played and commentated on, but the fact that he has led a team in a domestic day-night final.

That was in the 1996-97 season when he guided Mumbai to victory over Delhi at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior in his penultimate season in first-class cricket. While delivering the ninth Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture at the Cricket Club of India yesterday, Manjrekar batted for day-night Tests in India, something that has yet to come to fruition in this part of the world.