'Why Pink Ball?' Questions Desis are Googling Ahead of Historic India vs Bangladesh Day-Night Test

ParryHotter

The curiosity around pink ball and India's first Day/Night Test at Eden Gardens is real and Google searches are a proof.



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devendraka

Thanks for this article.
Can someone shed light on how innings break happen in a day-night test?

Akm1001

FOR KOLKATA TEST IT'S AS UNDER-
The toss will take place at 12.30pm while the first ball will be bowled at 1pm
Lunch will be taken at 3pm while the last break would be tea at 5.40pm
Stumps will be drawn at 8pm to negate the dew factor which comes into play late in the evening in Kolkata

ssangra

Wierd I thought orange would have been better as orange colour is used because it can be spotted easily from far away in all kinds of lighting and that is why orange jerseys are used by staff working near trains and other areas where accidents happen. Orange is also colour of choice for jerseys of ice and mountain climbers ...again because it remains visible under all circumstances and against all backgrounds. pink is not as good.

asr335704

I read in "Times of India" newspaper 3-4 days ago that ICC selected pink ball because orange ball failed their test.
Pink ball is not the perfect alternative but in comparison to yellow and range balls, it produced more marks in the tests performed.

I am not completely convinced but this is what I understood from that newspaper.

chanakyakripa

Pink ball test is an awareness campaign against cancer. Hence the ball colour is pink.

amitwrite

It wasn't the first choice. Ball makers tried optic yellow and bright orange before they decided on pink for the day-night game. A bright colour is easy to spot on the field but it could turn into a problem if the outfield is patchy, less green and more brown. Kookaburra, the ball maker, put a green seam to the pink ball, switched to white and then stuck to black after former Australia skipper Steve Smith suggested the seam should be made more visible. Smith led Australia against New Zealand in the first-ever pink ball Test in 2015.Research began on how to make day-night Tests work. The ball would need to be changed as red might be harder to spot under floodlights. There were experiments with yellow, orange and pink balls, and there was even a suggestion to play with an improved white ball that could last 80 overs with the players wearing coloured kits. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced the Lord's Test against Bangladesh in 2010 would be played under lights with a pink ball in use, but their plans were scuppered when the two counties they requested to trial the pink ball in a four-day match, Durham and Worcestershire, refused to do so. "I was not keen. It was a first-class match and I thought we should retain the game's integrity," Durham coach Geoff Cook had said. As is often the case, women's cricket got the jump on the men's game, with the pink ball being trialed in an England v Australia women's one-day match in 2009. Soon after, in January 2010, a first-class match between Guyana and Trinidad &Tobago in Antigua began in the afternoon and was played with a pink ball. The ECB finally got their trials, with the 2010 Champion County match between previous season's champions, Durham, and the MCC being played under lights in Abu Dhabi and then Canterbury hosting a pink-ball Division Two County Championship match in 2011. The Pakistan board trialed an orange ball in the 2010-11 final of their premier first-class tournament, the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, and switched to a pink one in the 2011-12 final. South Africa and Bangladesh both experimented with pink balls in 2012 and 2013, and in 2014 an entire round of Sheffield Shield matches in Australia were played with a pink Kookaburra ball.The first-ever day-night, pink-ball Test was played in Adelaide in November 2015. It turned out to be a low-scoring thriller, with Australia beating New Zealand by just three wickets on day three.

chanakyakripa

amitwrite 26-11-2019 10:02 AM
It wasn't the first choice. Ball makers tried optic yellow and bright orange before they decided on  ...

Highly informative info. A great deal of homework has gone into before the actual matches. Thanks for sharing