As Test cricket reaches Guwahati, are India squandering home advantage unlike England, Australia, South Africa?

NEW DELHI: When India and South Africa players will take the field at Barsapara Stadium for the second Test of the series on Saturday, it will be a momentous occasion for the Guwahati venue. With play scheduled to start half an hour earlier than the traditional 9:30 am IST, Test cricket in India will mark its 28th different venue. In the process, Barsapara Stadium will join the likes of Eden Gardens (Kolkata), venue of the first Test, Arun Jaitley Stadium (New Delhi), MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chennai) and the lesser known University Ground (Lucknow), and Gandhi Stadium (Jalandhar). As BCCI's policy of rotating venues reaches its 19th different Test centre this century, it comes not long after Narendra Modi Stadium was sparely filled for the Test against the West Indies. And more