Cricket, a whole new ball game?

[Silver Arrow]

Pink balls for one day cricket?

The colour of balls used in the English one-day game could change from white to pink if trials by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), guardians of the laws of cricket, prove successful.

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[Joe Ninety]

Great,now I'll have red,white,orange and pink cherries on my bat.

 

[Jono]

Great,now I'll have red,white,orange and pink cherries on my helmet.

 

[Isolator]

We've got pink balls
We've got pink balls
We've got pink balls
Dirty pink balls
He's got pink balls
She's got pink balls
But we've got the pinkest balls of them all!

 

[haroon510]

The colour of balls used in the English one-day game could change from white to pink if trials by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), guardians of the laws of cricket, prove successful.

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Great! what is next? players wearing pink clothing and attires ! lol

 

[Perm]

Great! what is next? players wearing pink clothing and attires ! lol

Pretty sure that happened with the West Indies at one stage.

 

[pup11]

Ok i am not against change of colour of the cricket ball but FFS can't they think of any other colour but PINK, yuck!

 

[biased indian]

Why Pink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Flem274*]

Here comes the invasion of metrosexuality...

 

[Joe Ninety]

Ok i am not against change of colour of the cricket ball but FFS can't they think of any other colour but PINK, yuck!

But seriously what other colour would you use? Not a huge fan of the pink idea but its at least worth a trial.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Great,now I'll have red,white,orange and pink cherries on my helmet.

And I'll have 'em on my edges...

 

[Richard]

But seriously what other colour would you use? Not a huge fan of the pink idea but its at least worth a trial.

Orange ones have been used, TV companies don't like them because they don't show-up well on the black-and-white monitors they use. Of course, using colour monitors in the production studio is so difficult isn't it?

Really, what does it matter what colour the ball is though TBH? You can play with rainbow balls for all I care, long as the cricket's good.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Also, is there any particular reason why white paint shouldn't last as long as pink and orange paint?

 

[Athlai]

If they use pink balls they use pink balls.

Real men aren't afraid of the colour pink.

 

[Richard]

AWTA. Anti-pinkists are defeatists.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

If they use pink balls they use pink balls.

Real men aren't afraid of the colour pink.

Yeah, its the reds which frighten the **** out of me.

(There can never be too many bad communist jokes...)

 

[headhunter]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12341_2879474,00.html

First red, then white, now pink?

 

[silentstriker]

Eh, its just limited overs cricket, so it doesn't matter. I for one advocate making the ball the same color as the pitch. That way we can bring the bowlers back into the game. Plus we'd see more ball hitting the players, which is always a plus.

 

[steds]

Dire. Wtf's up with red balls?

 

[Langeveldt]

Absolute ****.. So the batsman can see the ball better? Oh I forgot, yeah, we've got a game thats totally dominated by bowlers haven't we..