Tips to sustain the great game Cricket is a beautiful game; it is ever-evolving with diverse formats, rules and championships Subhasis Ray | | Published 08.04.21, 03:00 AM
Lord Harris, the captain of England in 1878-79 and a founder member of the Imperial Cricket Council, once said, “You do well to love cricket, because it is more free from anything sordid, anything dishonourable than any game in the world. To play it keenly, generously, self-sacrificingly is a moral lesson in itself, and the classroom is God’s air and sunshine. Foster it, my brothers, so that it may attract all who find time to play it, protect it from anything that will sully it, so it may grow in favour with all men.”
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NEW DELHI: Starting today, the Indian cricket team will play only their third Day and Night Test match. Day and Night Tests are played with a pink ball, which has evolved over the years. All leading ball manufacturers produce the pink ball.
India played their first Day and Night Test at home, when they hosted Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens in 2019. India won that match convincingly. Their next pink ball international assignment ended in disaster, when they were bowled out for their all-time lowest Test innings total of 36 by the Australians in Adelaide in December 2020, eventually losing the match by 8 wickets. That match was played with the Kookaburra pink ball.
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On Thursday, December 17, India and Australia will square off in a Day and Night Test match for the very first time. It will in fact be only the second time that India will be involved in a Day and Night Test match, after playing their first Test with a pink ball in 2019 against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens.
Here s a quick recap of the evolution of the pink ball and Day and Night Test cricket: Day & Night Test cricket is played with a pink ball. The pink ball was trialed in an England vs Australia women s ODI match in 2009.