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 Cherry turns pink, as cricket becomes a different ball game
13th Nov 2007 23:05 IST
Agencies
Cricket is all set to embrace yet another innovation with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), custodian of the game's laws, introducing pink balls in an effort to solve visibility difficulties often associated with the white ones.
"Paint tends to flake off white balls and we have asked Kookaburra to produce a batch of pink ones because these show up so much better," said John Stephenson, MCC's head of cricket in London on Tuesday.
"The challenge is to produce a ball which retains its colour I doubt it will be any more expensive to produce or buy. I have asked Mike Gatting, the ECBs managing director of cricket partnerships, to use them in county second XI one-day matches, but we shall start by trying them in fixtures such as MCC versus Europe and in the university matches we sponsor," Stephenson, a former England player, was quoted as saying by 'The Times'.
MCC believes the new pink ball would be easier to sight, especially in poor light, by the batsmen and experiments would take place in the indoor school at Lord's.
Scientists at the Imperial College in London will work on the project and the first use of the balls would be witnessed in university and second XI matches early next year.
And if it clicked, the ball would be used first in county cricket and finally in one-dayers. |
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