Matters, not of bat or ball, have made headlines from Kolkata.
It does become a result foretold if the coin does not land up your side. Everything else is taken care of by uneven conditions in two halves of the day. Dew is the king and you do his majesty's bidding.
Toss is a matter of luck and not skill and we all know which ingredient should be deciding a game. I remember a final in Mumbai in the '90s when just a look at the wicket and we knew withoutthe toss we were doomed.
It was not dew as much but the sheer state of wicket which forewarned the perils of batting second on a crumbling pitch. It was a sight to see Venkatesh Prasad resort to bowling leg spin and slower ones which were rearing and sailing over batsmen's heads!
It brings to question the very issue of day-night games. Such matches have a social value in Australia or in South Africa where families can hop on to their bandwagons and head for cricket stadiums for their evenings out, especially on weekends.