Reply With QuoteJust sums up cricket lately tbh, everyone getting excited about a less red ball...
Bring back the real West Indies team...
Can a cricketing expert explain all this fuss about the 'pink ball'.
Surely just a different dye has been used - how will that effect how it handles?
(Isn't it just a pale red anyway?)
Last edited by Kingstepper; 12th January 2018 at 13:52.
Just sums up cricket lately tbh, everyone getting excited about a less red ball...
Bring back the real West Indies team...
Apparently the red ball has a layer of grease applied to waterproof it. The bowlers are rhe able to shine one side of it to get the ball to move in the air as it gets older.
The pink ball has its waterproofing in the actual pink paint layer which isn't polishable.
...or something like that.
Strange that they didn't use an equivalent paint?Originally Posted by chrisb
The Test against the current WI is so embarrassingly poor the commentators had nothing else to talk about. And did they talk about it, all day long. Thank God it was all over in three days.
Crazy to play the test series at the same time as the Windies 20/20 Premier League.
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