Attack of the pink balls game

Also, there is some concern in the Indian camp ahead of the Eden Test that the extra coating of lacquer on the ball — which enables it to retain its colour over the course of the match — ends up with making the ball appear more orange than pink under floodlights. It is lighter than red, and swings more in the initial overs.

However, once the ball is softer, the swing disappears. With no real weathering or fading of the leather, pacers find it difficult to get reverse swing, and spinners complain of lack of turn. This often results in long periods of boring play. More importantly for India, if the old ball does not reverse, the advantage of the Indian pace attack of Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav , Ishant Sharma , Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will be significantly blunted.

Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar are not in the current squad. The idea emerged in the late s, when there was concern over the dwindling viewership for Test matches. It was argued that holding One Dayers and T20s in the evenings had brought more people to the grounds and in front of TVs, so the same might work for Tests as well — especially because there was no way of avoiding at least a part of a Test match being played on weekdays. The other argument has been that day-night Tests produce results more often than conventional Test matches.

Mitigating factors are that the last two Tests of a series have generally been played on the flatter wickets in Melbourne and Sydney. His home ground at the SCG has been by far his least productive in Australia, with 21 wickets in eight Tests at an average of This was highlighted again over the past week, with Starc claiming just one wicket in 34 overs on a dying SCG pitch as England hung on for a dramatic draw, although he did have an early catch taken off a no-ball.

Despite his struggles in Sydney, Starc has taken 15 wickets for the series at an average under 27 and his batting has been a revelation, scoring runs at News, results and expert analysis from the weekend of sport sent every Monday.

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