Pink cricket balls to be trialled in Aussie match

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) — Pink cricket balls will be used in a match for the first time in Australia in January, reports said Thursday.

The match, between the West Australian and Queensland women's teams, will be a curtain-raiser for a Twenty20 game between Queensland and Tasmania at Brisbane's Gabba ground on January 10, Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper said.

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), custodians of the game's laws, say they are planning to use the pink balls in English minor matches to see whether they could replace the white ball in one-day cricket.

The MCC are hoping, in testing a fluorescent pink ball, that they will become a regular feature of domestic and international one-day games.

Manufacturers have found it almost impossible to develop a...