Pink ball cricket - thoughts

[Flem274*]

Looking forward to watching dougeh take guard to face no one

 

[honestbharani]

will he still get out?

 

[cnerd123]

Found the articles.

Well, it turns out that the Dukes white ball manufacturing process is not quite the same as that for the conventional red ball. With the conventional red ball, the leather is dyed red, greased and polished with a shellac topcoat. This final polish disappears very quickly during play and it is the grease in the leather that produces the shine when polished by the bowler. The finish applied to the white ball is slightly different. The leather is sprayed with a polyurethane white paint-like fluid and then heat-treated so that it bonds to the leather like a hard skin. As a final treatment, one coat of clear polyurethane-based topcoat is applied to further protect the white surface so that it does not get dirty easily. This extra coating ends up affecting the ball aerodynamics by making the surface smoother.

newyorkcricket

 

[hendrix]

Tom Latham in the pink as Black Caps practise with new ball | Stuff.co.nz

Not sure what happened to the TV broadcast Lindsay Crocker said was on the cards. Perhaps it'll hit the video vault, perhaps not.

Tom Latham is too good for Trent Boult.

Bracewell hitting some consistent areas. Interesting that Southee didn't open.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Will these tests end up with asterisks next to them?

They will in the Aussie media if NZ wins the series after winning in Adelaide.

 

[adub]

Will these tests end up with asterisks next to them?

What like Tests played on matting do?

 

[hendrix]

I reckon slips catching in twilight and batting against bowlers like Johnson where depth perception is critical will be quite tough.

 

[Dan]

I reckon slips catching in twilight and batting against bowlers like Johnson where depth perception is critical will be quite tough.

If it acts similarly to the white ball, aren't these things that people are already exposed to through ODI cricket?

 

[Howe_zat]

If it acts similarly to the white ball, aren't these things that people are already exposed to through ODI cricket?

Not really, the challenges of facing ODI bowling are very different. You don't have to face the opposition's best bowler all night, he isn't bowling bouncers and he's spending half his overs just trying to keep the runs down.

Edit: Hadn't read RH's post you were responding to properly. Carry on