Pink ball push for day-night Tests gains pace

[el-capitano]

Pink ball push for day-night Tests gains pace

A PINK cricket ball used at Lord's could help Australia realise its revolutionary ambition to stage Test matches at night.

"The pink Kookaburra behaved like a white ball when I was bowling with it," he told The Times in London. "The test will come under lights and on television and I would like the ECB to try it out in Twenty20 matches, but that will not be this year."

Stephenson added: "Some of the dye on the ball did come away, which revealed part of the white underneath, but I think everyone who used it would agree that it is progress.

"Taking things forward, we plan to use the ball in a number of our other MCC matches, University matches and also county second-team games [but] we need to see how the ball reacts to more abrasive pitches in say the heat of the sub-continent than just on a lush green Lord's ground in April."

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has voiced an ambitious plan to stage some Tests in a day-night timeslot (from 2pm-9pm) within three years, to boost crowds and television audiences, and now the England and Wales Cricket Board is also exploring the possibility.

Interesting.

 

[D.K]

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I am a traditionalist when it comes to cricket and am totally against this move. Give me a day test over any of these night time rubbish they are proposing.

Just another theory for cricket australia to push for more money

 

[Ljp86]

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It won't work. Cricket Australia tried it last decade for the four-day domestic competition but it didn't work and they ended up stopping the trial. The pink ball proved hard to see and there was no real change to crowd numbers despite the more crowd friendly session times.

It won't work in test match cricket either, the pink ball behaves far too similarly to the white ball and would be hard to see in the twilight period of the day.

I really don't see this happening, the CA and the ECB will face an uphill battle to implement this.

 

[pup_gun]

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lol pink ball i say give it a try
never herd about there been a pink ball coming in

 

[Kram81]

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It won't work. Cricket Australia tried it last decade for the four-day domestic competition but it didn't work and they ended up stopping the trial. The pink ball proved hard to see and there was no real change to crowd numbers despite the more crowd friendly session times.

If my memory is correct I thought it was an orange ball?

Gay idea IMO, who would want to be batting at dusk while the lights take effect?

 

[Ljp86]

Re: Pink ball push for day-night Tests gains pace

If my memory is correct I thought it was an orange ball?

Gay idea IMO, who would want to be batting at dusk while the lights take effect?

I think it may have been an orange ball. You're right though, the twilight part of the day will be a nightmare to bat in.

 

[pup_gun]

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why do they want to change the ball anyway pink ball orange ball??
whats going on

 

[Chandu]

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why do they want to change the ball anyway pink ball orange ball??
whats going on

If you read the first post in thread (or thread title): They want to try playing test matches at night (during "prime time TV hours"). That's because hardly anybody has been attending/watching test cricket during afternoon hours on weekdays. (This is of course excluding big series such as Ashes, Australia vs India, India vs Pakistan etc.) So in general, test cricket is faced with financial crisis. Faced with the monster called Twenty20 looming large in the horizon, if they don't do something about it really quickly, test cricket might become doomed for irrelevance. You can't play any cricket during night/dusk with a white ball, hence this talk about pink/orange ball for test cricket.

 

[pup_gun]

Re: Pink ball push for day-night Tests gains pace

If you read the first post in thread (or thread title): They want to try playing test matches at night (during "prime time TV hours"). That's because hardly anybody has been attending/watching test cricket during afternoon hours on weekdays. (This is of course excluding big series such as Ashes, Australia vs India, India vs Pakistan etc.) So in general, test cricket is faced with financial crisis. Faced with the monster called Twenty20 looming large in the horizon, if they don't do something about it really quickly, test cricket might become doomed for irrelevance. You can't play any cricket during night/dusk with a white ball, hence this talk about pink/orange ball for test cricket.

cool
i cant read well and couldnt be bothered reading the first post
lol

 

[schwab2clarkson]

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They need something a little different to use if the tests times are to change. They need the ball to be pink so that it stops the glare and so that everyone can see it.