IND vs ENG, 3rd Test: Root, Kohli Fear Pink Ball Twilight Collapse

England captain Joe Root and India skipper Virat Kohli have both warned of the challenges of playing during the twilight zone in day-night Tests -- when batting collapses can happen -- ahead of their

Both teams have had painful experiences of pink-ball cricket. India were bowled out for 36 by Australia in Adelaide in December and New Zealand skittled England in Auckland for 58 in 2018.

"Both are bizarre experiences for two quality sides," Kohli said. "Barring that 45 minutes of bad cricket (in Adelaide) we dominated the Test match. We are very confident in how we play the pink ball."

Root agreed that batsmen need to careful -- and not just in the evening when the lights come on the ball can start swinging.

"I think there's been a trend in all the pink-ball Test matches of collapses on occasion," Root told a separate news conference.

"It seems to be a trend and it's something as a batting group you need to make sure you stop," he said.

"It's sometimes been right at the start of the game, you know the morning session, late on in day four, that this strange sort of passages of play has happened."

He added: "When you get that opportunity and you're on the right side of it, you're in the field with a ball in hand, you really get and roll with it. You take every opportunity and chance and you make that really count in your favour.

"Similarly with a bat in hand, you've just got to really make sure those (first) 20 balls, you're fighting with everything you've got to get yourself in, get accustomed to the wicket, the conditions and make sure you build that partnership which is so vital."

The Ahmedabad stadium has a capacity of 110,000 people and authorities have allowed 55,000 tickets to go on sale each day.

Each side has had a convincing win in the first two Tests. England won the first by 227 runs, while India claimed the second by 317 runs. Both need a win to keep alive their hopes of reaching the World Test Championship final.