Thread: Test Cricket at night.

The balls were Orange and they were sh*te, but actually better than a lot of the white Steeden or Kookaburra balls around.
There has been cricket under lights for 30 years and the best ball manufacturers still can't develop a white leather ball that holds itself together for 50 overs.
The condensation on the ground and in the air doesn't help at all, even in humid climates it's crap.
In One Day Inernationals they still use 2 balls, the ump keeps it with him at the end of each over. Maximum use is 25 overs per ball, and they look like they have been rolled on bitumen afterwards.
It is incredibly hard sometimes as a batsman or in the field, to see the pill late in the overs under lights, the ball goes to a fawny colour.
As a bowler, they swing like a banana for the first 10 or so, then you're lucky to get any movement at all.

Test cricket under lights is a dud idea, as is cricket under a roof. The weather, the light, the conditions are all part of a 5 day test. It will detract from Tests, not add to it.
There are plenty more things they can do with the game, than this half baked 'marketing' idea.

yep leave test cricket alone

there is plenty of one dayers and 20/20 to keep the spectators happy

in 20/20 games I think they should let the spectators keep any balls hit over the fence,,

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

in 20/20 games I think they should let the spectators keep any balls hit over the fence,,

that might cause a few blues amongst the spectators

good idea thou

I am a traditionalist like "punter", who thinks that it should stay as it is.

Leave test cricket the way it is, I say.

There are already two forms of limited overs cricket played at night, why have another night game?

It's not test cricket unless they're tested under all daylight conditions. No to night tests! (Also no to 20:20 ... rubbish stuff ... but then again that's where our fine country is heading).

Originally Posted by FenianEel

The balls were Orange and they were sh*te, but actually better than a lot of the white Steeden or Kookaburra balls around.
There has been cricket under lights for 30 years and the best ball manufacturers still can't develop a white leather ball that holds itself together for 50 overs.

Surely in this day and age they can take a red cricket ball and impregnate it with some sort of dye to change it's colour and not reduce it's durability.