Day night Test cricket discussion

[Bada]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/day-night-test-cricket-poll-fans-throw-support-behind-pink-ball-test-adelaide-oval/2015-06-30

[Bada]

Starc unimpressed by pink ball
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-new-zealand-2015-16/content/story/892533.html

[nighthawk]

I'm waiting to see how this pans out.
But is it a bit too soon? How many FC matches have they played day/night?

[SimplePass]

(06-30-2015, 09:43 AM)randy_cricfreak Wrote:  

(06-30-2015, 09:41 AM)SimplePass Wrote:  why does it have to be a pink ball? why can't they just play with a white ball? the whole thing sounds like a big waste of time to me

White ball in whites? Are you drunk?? In the first place you should have asked why red ball in whites not the white ball in tests


Absurd  

if white clothes was the big issue couldn't they have simply chosen to play in different color clothing instead of spending years to develop a pink ball?

[mugatiya]

(06-30-2015, 03:32 PM)nuffa Wrote:  I'm waiting to see how this pans out.
But is it a bit too soon? How many FC matches have they played day/night?

They played 2 seasons of shield cricket with DN games. Also it was played in the UK in some domestic matches.

A poll was conducted at the end of both seasons. I've posted those results here before check the first few pages

Quote:But those who tell you the introduction of a pink ball will radically overturn almost 140 years of Test cricket history and tradition can take some reassurance from the data collected by Cricket Australia in trials of day-night matches during last summer’s Bupa Sheffield Shield season.

That information – collated from matches played at the MCG, Gabba and Adelaide Oval – showed little discernible difference in a number of key match indicators such as: • Average wickets taken per innings (8.17 with the pink ball compared to 2013-14 season average of 8.02 with the red ball)
• Average total runs per innings (248 with the pink ball compared to 266)
• Average number of individual centuries per innings (0.25 compared to 0.36)
• Average number of wickets and overs from pace bowlers per innings (5.25 wickets and 60 overs with the pink ball compared to 5.8 and 60 with the red ball)
• Average number of wickets and overs from spin bowlers per innings (2.75 wickets from 29 overs with the pink ball compared to 2.14 from 25 overs with the red ball)

The most marked disparity from that trial came in the total number of overs bowled, though the fact that bowlers using the pink ball were forced to toil for an average extra five overs per innings does not indicate wickets and runs were impossible to come by as the ball became older.

As cricket.com.au reported earlier this year, the pink ball trial in the Bupa Sheffield Shield competition was also conducted with a survey of more than 450 players, spectators, umpires, referees and curators to gauge their thoughts on the innovation.

Publicly the response to the pink ball trial was largely positive and spectators in particular rated it favourably, but some players and team officials were privately critical of the extent to which the external condition of the ball deteriorates.

[mugatiya]

(06-30-2015, 11:15 PM)SimplePass Wrote:  

(06-30-2015, 09:43 AM)randy_cricfreak Wrote:  White ball in whites? Are you drunk?? In the first place you should have asked why red ball in whites not the white ball in tests


Absurd  

if white clothes was the big issue couldn't they have simply chosen to play in different color clothing instead of spending years to develop a pink ball?

I think SP's point is definitely valid. And I agree.

If we had to switch to colored clothing to to use a white ball in ODI cricket it makes sense to try and play with colored clothing of some form to use the tried and tested white ball in long format

But I think the white ball had issues with longevitiy which is why they had to try a new ball all together. Red would not have worked in the night due to the trail or comet effect.

I think if they improved the white ball and tried with some other colored clothing it might have worked the same.

But I guess wearing white is more important to retain the test cricket authenticity than changing the ball color.

Its a bit stupid really.

[ApoCrypto]

(06-30-2015, 03:00 AM)pj57 Wrote:  OK...OK....Mugs....we get you......now calm down please.......

Pinky so excited about the pink ball

Too good lol

[Charu26]

NO, But I might go for this one time

[pj57]

I have my doubts about day/night tests but I don't mind giving it a try. My main concern is about how the pink ball will behave and how the evening dew will effect the cricket. That said, lets give it a try.

[mugatiya]

(07-01-2015, 01:43 AM)pj57 Wrote:  I have my doubts about day/night tests but I don't mind giving it a try. My main concern is about how the pink ball will behave and how the evening dew will effect the cricket. That said, lets give it a try.

By all accounts it does not behave too differently to the red ball. Look at the stats I posted its pretty much the same

The issue is visibility. Hopefully they;ve got that right.

I also read that crowds found it hard to pick up in the night. Which would be funny given that this is an attempt to get more crowds into grounds after hours.

Anyway let's see. It might be a flop. But we won't know if we don't try.