Australia look to science for day-night Tests
The use of a pink ball at Lord’s has given Cricket Australia hope of finding a suitable object for day-night Tests
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
The use of a pink ball at Lord’s has given Cricket Australia hope of finding a suitable object for day-night Tests. Michael Brown, the board’s general manager of cricket operations, tells the Sydney Morning Herald he will be meeting with scientists and Australian Institute of Sport experts next week.
"We want to try and do a proper, orchestrated research project," Brown said. "If we are serious about this issue - to get a better day-night cricket ball and a ball we could possibly use in Test cricket - we need to understand the constraints, which is what the MCC are doing ... We need to factor in the practical cricket people, the scientists, the people who make the leather, the cricket ball manufacturers. We see this as being a really serious project that could have lots of implications, but you've got to understand, too, it could go nowhere.”
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo